Flight of the Living Dead

2007 "At 30,000 feet, there's no where to run."
5.1| 1h29m| R| en
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On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Actuakers One of my all time favorites.
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
gpeltz Plain Dead (2007), aka "Flight of the Living Dead", Directed by Scot Thomas and written by Sidney Iwanter and Mark Onspaugh, is a goofy and entertaining little horror/adventure film, Spoiler Alert ahead, I will be talking detail, so watch the film and see if we agree.Planes make dandy hotbeds for all manner of creatures, The popular and successful Snakes on a Plane was released a year earlier,(2006) Here the creatures are Zombies. In all fairness, the Zombie on a Plane was more recently dealt with in the 2013 World War Z.The earnest cast includes David Chisum as agent Truman, escorting an international con man, Frank played merrily by Kevin O Connor. 'Stereotypes abound on this flight, Heros and villains. Richard Tyson plays a celebrity Golf player, and Eric Avari plays the despicable Dr Bennett, who developed the Zombie Virus, The 747 is carrying the "special cargo" But we need not be concerned, because the cargo was secured, and nothing could go wrong.Aside from defying all laws of Logic, and keeping it's feet firmly planted in the Genera Cliché tradition, This picture manages to entertain, Yeah shoot off yer automatic weapons in the enclosed airspace. Two men are mysteriously killed in the Cargo area? Right, send down two more. By the third reel, options for plot development become slim, as the plane becomes zombified. Admit it, you knew the Nun was going to be zombied out, as well as the young lovers, and the odd Asian fellow, who does not get the concept of, "Unbuckle your seat belt". Not a fun flight for the stewardess either, who are reduced to calming down the passengers by asking if they want coffee. And this was to be the Captains last flight before retirement too. The production values were good, they had a dandy 747 interior set to play with, Music by Nathan Wang was properly suspense inducing, The gore effects were tolerable, and the closing act was oddly effective in keeping with the loony premise. "And what rough beasts slouch toward Bethlem...." Seven out of Ten, "Amuse me," Stars
bowmanblue Okay, so pretty much any zombie-fan will know about George A Romero's classic 'Night of the Living Dead.' There have been many imitations. Here we have one that goes as far as to try and rhyme its title for added effect. The result – so-so.I'll start by saying that 'FLIGHT of the Living Dead' is no classic. Any zombie movie today always has to fight to get noticed among the dozens of undead offerings we find released straight to DVD. So... what has this one got that makes it worth the watch? The answer... no much really. But that doesn't mean it's all together bad. The title alone basically tells you everything you need to know about the plot. A plane. A toxic outbreak on board. Zombies. Before I watched it I did kind of wonder how they could drag out a film set in such a confined space to an hour and a half – even the biggest jumbo jets would soon find every last inch crammed by flesh-eating ghouls pretty quickly. However, the film-makers have done a reasonable job of making things believable.The first half of the film introduces us to the characters (and reinforces what little plot there is). Basically, the plane is populated by stereotypes. You will probably guess the fate of most of them, but there are a couple which actually stand out as people you'd root for (ironically, one of the best characters is a prisoner who's on his way to jail!). And that's enough for this sort of film. It basically scrapes through on character traits. The plot is wafer-thin and the gore is nothing that you haven't seen before.Like I said, it's no classic, but if you're in the mood for (yet another) zombie film and you're in a forgiving mood, then this one might fill an hour and a half of your life.For me, the only part I really rolled my eyes at were when the undead – somehow – managed to 'punch through' the floor of the plane in order to climb out of the 'hold' and get into the cabin to feast on the passengers. Next time I'm on a plane I'll be a little worried when I'm taking my seat if I think the floor beneath my feet could give way so easily!
Leofwine_draca FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is one of those bargain basement horror outings that it's all too easy to pass by in the video store. The title alone makes it sound like a cheesy riff on George Romero's classic zombie fest and you just know it's going to invariably be low budget and rather silly in places. As it turns, it's far from the worst zombie movie ever made – it has better production values than APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD, for example – but it has crucial flaws that spoil its entertainment value.One of the worst is how the scenes involving the undead are actually handled. They're portrayed in the cheesiest, over-the-top manner possible, with some CGI effects that are absolutely awful and some make-up and contact lenses that look like they belong at a Halloween party. It's strange, because the rest of the film is played relatively straight and seriously; there's a B-movie atmosphere, yes, but the actors are game and it all hangs together relatively well until the zombies show up.The interesting thing about this movie is the high number of familiar faces rounding out the cast. The captain of the plane, Raymond Barry, was a series regular on THE X-FILES; the bad guy, Erick Avarj, and the criminal, Kevin J. O'Connor, were both in THE MUMMY; Dale Midkiff was a leading man back in the day (think PET SEMATARY) but is now way down the cast list, while B-movie stalwart Brian Thompson shows up and is so embarrassed that his face is covered for the entire duration of his appearance (I only noticed him because of his name in the credits). Genre fans might enjoy themselves with this one, but I can't say I was particularly impressed; there are a lot better movies out there, and FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD doesn't offer anything that we haven't seen before. I like the premise, but the execution could have been a lot better (and scarier) had it been handled more subtly.
mylucylumpkins If Wes Craven was to try his hand at a zombie film, this would be the end result, and I sincerely mean it was that bad. One part in particular brings this to mind, the people getting pulled through the bathroom mirror, just like the mother getting pulled through the window at the end of the original Nightmare on Elm Street. The cheesy teen drama and the 80's guitar ballads were so appropriate. Why not just call in Nightmare on the Plane. At the end of the film, somewhere between zombies flying through the air and the captain's head bursting like a water balloon, I began to believe this is probably the worst zombie film I can recall, apart from Night of The Living Dead 3D. With the Halloween shop gory effects and the acting, which was a step bellow a preschool presentation, it leaves me wondering why I rented this film, even if it was free. I'm sure I could have seen it on SyFy or Chiller.