Raiders of the Living Dead

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Summary: Learn From My Mistakes
Review: So bad. So So So bad. I can only think of one or two scenes in this movie that were ok, but one or two scenes does not a movie make. Terrible acting, bad makeup, terrible acting, stupid story, terrible acting, cheesy effects, and terrible acting. Oh, and the acting was terrible. A waste of time, money and resources. Watching paint dry is more entertaining then this.

Rating:
Summary: Learn From My Mistakes
Review: So bad. So So So bad. I can only think of one or two scenes in this movie that were ok, but one or two scenes does not a movie make. Terrible acting, bad makeup, terrible acting, stupid story, terrible acting, cheesy effects, and terrible acting. Oh, and the acting was terrible. A waste of time, money and resources. Watching paint dry is more entertaining then this.

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Summary: It's so poor, you have to love it!
Review: This is the worst movie I've ever seen. There is not one good thing about it. The directing, edting, acting, and story is so weak. But I love watching this movie. The best thing about the movie is the theme by George Edward Ott!

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Summary: KNOW YOUR HISTORY
Review: While RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD will never win any awards, and it will attract only a few hardcore fans who will go away sorely disappointed since so little of the film has anything to do with the living dead (much less raiders of them), this two disc special edition is still a must for fans of the genre and those interested in making movies. Presented here are three wildy different versions of the same movie. DYING DAY, a very low budget (yet well put together film) by Brett Piper. DARK NIGHT, the workprint remake of the same film with newly added material and storyline from Sam Sherman and INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL PICTURES, and the end result of the two: RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD, that takes both films, both stories and then crams them together to try and come up with a totally new story. The end result with RAIDERS is a choppy and confusing mess of images, plots, poor shots and hollow acting. Easily dismissed and largely ignored by the zombie fans. But, with the inclusion here of DYING DAY and DARK NIGHT (plus a snappy little commentary by Sam Sherman) you are really treated to an inside look of how "one thing lead to another". DYING DAY actually is not a bad film (if you ignore its Prologue, which was shot soley to get the film to a "feature length running time"), and of all three versions of the movie, has the best story. DARK NIGHT tries to ramp up the action by adding a mad doctor plot and turns our hero from DYING DAY from a doomed man, to a doomed reporter. RAIDERS sticks with the doomed reporter, and drops out the orignal mad doctor from DARK NIGHT, and instead makes him a happy-go-lucky and plucky Grandpa with a brilliant Grandson (who makes a laser out of very ancient LaserDisc player). There still is a mad doctor, and you can see him as a good guy in DYING DAY, but cut from DARK NIGHT, and finally added back into RAIDERS who now commands a horde of the undead (which for this film is stretching the budget at around five undead). It's also interesting to note what finally becomes of DYING DAY's original villain in RAIDERS. Overall this DVD release of these three films gives insight on not only filmaking, but taking what you've got and going with it (no matter what kind of budget you've got). It's about making a movie NO MATTER WHAT. Determination, grit, gusto and lot of spit and scotch tape went into making RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD. And while you'll not love the film any more by the end, you will respect it a little more than you did going in to it. Cheap, fast and tacky (check out the review of the film from a JESTER-27 on the back of the box, and then look closely from where it came from... too funny), this release of RAIDERS OF THE LIVING DEAD is a great buy (the DVD is put together very well) and solid lesson in never giving up on anything... no matter how bad it turns out.