BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Gatto Nero I knew I should have known better to see a zombie movie with Chris Kattan in it.I can't help it, I watch anything with a zombie in it.I really knew I was in trouble when I saw Brian Posehn as a zombie. I mean he makes an imposing one being that he is 6'7" in height. But they made him a bumbling idiot zombie and not scary at all. He even bites chicken's head off to eat brains! Come on! Right there I knew I was in for a mediocre zombie flick..Now James Denton as 'Elmer Winslow' was somewhat good casting. He does an OK cowboy. But Chris Kattan? No way! He is just so..feminine in his way of acting. And he being the love interest of the beautiful Navi Rawat who plays 'Sue' Geronimo's niece, was a joke. And I wasn't laughing.Leslie Jordan as 'Padre' was OK and was the only character caught up in some suspense with zombie s all around him and he trying to just get some water without being seen. His scenes were short and in the end his part was wasted.The whole movie stunk for on a lot of levels. 1st of all the zombies talk! And not like in the way funnier and scarier classic 1985's 'Return of the Living Dead' talk-like-a-way but like regular people!? And you can't kill a zombie the conventional way of shooting them in the head!? According to Geronimo, if you are bitten and turn into a zombie, you can become normal again by eating the flesh of the medicine person who put the zombie curse in the 1st place! Come on! That just killed it for me. Zombies are just not suppose to talk in any way shape or form!or once you have been bitten , you can't become normal again! Yeah right!I'll give this movie a couple of firsts though. Besides the talking like regular folks zombies, we have a sword-yielding zombie!, a Zombie dog cameo!? And the ultimate clincher, skipping zombies!!? I kid you not, when I saw Brian Posehn, who at the beginning of the film had killed his wife and daughter and now at the end of the film he digs them up from their graves and they rejoice they are back together again as a family albeit a zombie one, and they skip off to the sunset and "die" happily ever after was just too much. Even their dog became a zombie! But the ultimate greatest 1st is...and the only part that made me chuckle for a sec was when the 'Cletus' character, played by Chris Coppola, who is now a zombie goes off to urinate (a 1st in where a zombie actually has bodily functions)and comes back crying to Sheriff Claypool played by Matt Besser(yes he's related to the 3 Stooges Joe Besser:he is his Grandson) And hands him something and the sheriff says , "What the hell is this a baby field mouse?" And Cletus says, "No it's not" and the sheriff just realizes what it is, a zombie penis!! LOLAlright, so if you are in the mood for a stupid zombie movie, them look no further and watch this Western/Zombie fiasco.

FightingWesterner It's unfortunate that in order to get modern audiences to watch a western, you got to put zombies in it. Even worse, you have to turn it into as comedy in order to have any credibility left.Undead Or Alive is entertaining on a no-brainer level, though one wishes that the filmmakers would have watched a ton of straight westerns before making an attempt to spoof the genre. Come to think of it, the zombie genre doesn't fare much better in the parody department.Instead, we're treated to a handful of clichés about as deep as a Looney Tunes short, mixed with a pinch of political correctness, and an ending that rips off A Boy And His Dog.Still, it moves fast enough. Chris Kattan and James Denton are personable enough. Leslie Jordan is fun to watch too.

Paul Andrews Undead or Alive is set in the Old Wild West & starts as US army deserter Elmer Winslow (James Denton) rides into a small town, after getting into a fight with a Cowboy named Luke Rudd (Chris Kattan) the two are thrown in jail by a corrupt Sheriff who also steal all their money. Elmer manages to pick the jail door lock & escapes with Luke who then both rob the Sheriff in order to get their money back & a bit of compensation. Meanwhile a local man named Ben (Brian Posehn) has been turned into a brain eating zombie & starts spreading the virus turning the rest of the town into brain eating zombies, now infected the zombie Sheriff, his Deputy & a posse of men head after Elmer & Luke spreading the zombie plague wherever they go...Also known as Undead or Alive: A Zomedy this awful comedy horror Western was written & directed by Glasgow Phillips & is a stark reminder to me that I really should stop watching low budget straight to video horror, or at least choose my films a little better. Right, the problems with Undead or Alive are numerous but as a horror comedy it falls way short on both counts & as a Western it does nothing other than to set it's story in the Old Wild West. I found Undead or Alive spectacularly funny, the opening scene where various pieces of text explain some background & one reads 'for those who don't like reading it's nearly over' or something like that is just plain insulting & is a film that feels absolutely desperate for laughs before it's even started. Then a sequence in which a zombie wanders around & steps into a bucket & on a rake which bizarrely only comes up to his knee is some incredibly unfunny zombie slapstick routine. As I see comments here on the IMDb describing Undead or Alive as funny I would honestly like someone to name one funny sequence in this laugh free film, just one. The one-liners are awful, the slapstick three Stooges routines are awful, the visual gags are awful & I just can't think of one even slightly amusing moment in this misfire of a horror comedy. The character's are awful, a sheepish idiotic Cowboy who keeps a picture of his Horse in a locket & a army deserter, an evil Sheriff & his dumb comedy relief Deputy & a town of faceless idiots who get about two minutes of screen time. The only bright spark is Sue the native Indian girl who has at least some personality & is quite attractive to look at but the pluses stop there. The pacing & plotting are terrible & it's as predictable as they come.Considering that Robert Kurtzman was the special make-up effect producer, just look at some of his other credits, the make-up here is surprisingly tatty. The zombies look awful & despite what you may read the gore is limited to a few blood splatters & some irritating machine gun edited flesh biting where you can barely see anything anyway because it's edited so quickly. Undead or Alive is just a spectacular misfire on all fronts from the lame humour & jokes to the shoddy make-up & badly edited gory bits. I really am trying to understand why Undead or Alive has any positive comments for it on the IMDb but I just can't, I really can't. Like a lot of modern films there's a bit of CGI here at the end when a fort blows up & it looks terrible, this is the sort of computer effect you expect in a computer game.Apparently filmed in Santa Fe in New Mexico the films looks quite nice shot on location the production values are alright as far as the sets & costumes go but if I wanted that sort of thing I'd watch a proper Western, wouldn't I? Like much of everything else the acting sucks, the two leads in particular are annoying.Undead or Alive is a horror comedy that fails to deliver on either front in a big way, totally unfunny & with surprisingly poor make-up effects I just don't see what this has going for it. Every joke & gag is bottom of the barrel stuff & the horror is reduced to silly slapstick that just looks terrible.

blzbozo I liked this movie. I say it was typically good because it satisfied any expectations I had. I don't get the bad reviews posted. It says in the beginning it's a "Zombedy" and it stars Chris Kattan...and Brian Posehn is in it too. I really don't need to say anything else after that. That's like a "get out of jail free" card. Instead it's a "if you take yourself too seriously and try to seriously critique this type of film, you're a fool" card. I've never seen a "Zombie" movie that didn't have some camp or dark humor. This is obviously more the traditional camp, but if you can't find the little things funny then you'll probably need to go out a get a new sense of humor. You're taking yourself too seriously, especially when it comes to reviewing a "Zombie Western". See it kids! It's definitely worth watching.