It's really hard to make an original zombie movie these days. Lets face it... it's been done a million times before, and it's all the same. The last original zombie flick I saw would have to be "28 Days Later" (although they technically were not zombies). I'm sure that movie inspired the director of the independent film, "Dead Air", mostly due to the fact that it contains a virus that turns people into insane cannibals.
I give the director credit for trying something original. Instead of having the typical average Joe survivors that band together in order to survive... our main characters work at a radio station. They ultimately decide to stay on air and keep the public up-to-date on the horrific events that unfold. We are then treated an hour of listening to people getting killed via telephone, listening to our radio show host talk, and seeing various people defend themselves against "zombies". It also tries to analyze our society and be thought provoking in terms of American politics and discrimination.
Good try... but I'm going to have to give the director an failing grade on that part. I know the point was to take the zombie genre and make it more serious and mature... but when you have a bunch of crazy cannibals running around, it's hard to take it seriously (especially with the lack of good make-up for the zombies). I also couldn't help wondering why they stayed on the air. They could have chosen to run the emergency broadcast... but instead, came to the conclusion that the show must go on. Another thing that bothered me was that the co-host of the show leaves to save our main character's family, while the main character stays to continue the show. Seriously?! There is a crisis and he chooses his radio show over his family? Come on!
While it tries to be original, and has a few decent scares and/or suspenseful sequences... it just fell flat and wasn't memorable or even that engaging. I reccomend you go see "28 Days Later" instead.
My Rating: 3 out of 10
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