Last of the Living (2009)

That was an excellent one.

Good concept, poorly executed.

Fantastic!

Absolutely the worst movie.

What a fun movie to watch. Similar in tone to Zombieland, although different story and characters, still similar in tone. Three slackers (a geek, a cool guy, and a rock&roller) are living as couch potatoes during the apocalypse. No explanation of how they survived, but zombies movies don't need explanations for everything. They're hanging out in house to house, watching dvds, playing video games, raiding the grocery store and music store, etc., killing zombies as they run into them. Then it's time to meet a hot chick scientist working on a cure*, so the guys can try to impress her.The characters and dialog are quirky, which really makes a good zombie for me. The effects were low budget, but still good, with some good fight scenes and gore. They used POV from the zombie being killed a few times, which makes it possible to not have to use any special effects, you just see the baseball bat, golf club and such coming down at you. Nice effect of leaving some of the gruesomeness to your imagination. As with ALL zombie movies, there are borrowed ideas from other movies. In a zombie movie, it's not about what you do, but HOW you do it. And they did well.SPOILER-I do have one complaint, however.....zombies that move slow for the entire movie, suddenly move fast at the end of the movie....uh, why? somethings should be explained, and that isn't. They needed the zombies to move fast in order for a scene to be thrilling, OK, i get that. But some kind of explanation would be good.*(many zombie movies work on finding a cure, after all, it's impossible for everyone to not eventually get bit, so a cure would be good to prevent the disease from taking over everyone-of course you can't help those already infected unless they're still in good condition maybe)

I knew this not going be any where near as good or as funny as Shaun of the dead funny but I did expected to be be funny then Dance of the Dead, i Found that even funner. This was another that been on my watch list for long time, I have tired watch before, As this very low budget movie, I get putting off. A contagious virus is turning everyone into zombies, and the only hope for survival lies in the hands of three couch potatoes.The movie starts just like 28 days later, when Man in mid 20's is walking around empty street and News flash of it at the start of what going on. As Its went to meant to Horror comedy but I didn't find any of infected that scary at all, some were very stranger then others, some dodgy make up effect and it wasn't really that gory at all. Felt same scenes were getting repeated over and over again and those scenes end up dragging at well, I do mean killing infected scenes. well. I don't think I laughed more then once, The thing that I laugh was not really that funny but I didn't find any of other things funny at all.The acting was really tame time from most of the cast, at the ending what was with shouting, that way, way over the top. Ending was predictable and kind boring for zombie to end that way! 3 out of 10 Hoping 3rd the movie of the day is not a bad one

We got this film as part of a collection of low-budget horror, "Masters of Terror," and were all set to laugh at the badness. Last of the Living was a great surprise. The plot is well constructed, and the four leads are charming and engaging. I'm not quite sure how to explain this, but the main plot - zombie apocalypse, a desperate ploy to get to a centrifuge(?) is nothing we haven't seen before. It's the little things that make a difference: the characters' back stories, the detail about why there are no bullets left, the way the characters interact with each other, and the fact that the main crisis is conflict between friends, not the zombie apocalypse - all these factors make this worth a viewing. For those who like combat there are some decent fight set pieces. Plus the soundtrack is the sex bob-omb. For what it is, Last of the Living is good fun.

I recently purchased this movie in an 8 pack of low budget horror films.I like to watch independent movies to keep myself aware when good independent films surface. After watching a few from the pack I almost stopped. I powered through to this one and was pleasantly surprised. The writing and/or improvisation was great. The characters actually had some charisma and the story was great. To see people act the way normal "none Hollywood" people would act was refreshing and I think this has the potential for a cult following. So check it out if you are sick of Hollywood style fodder and just want a real zombie flick made by smart people.