Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Steinesongo Too many fans seem to be blown away

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

djderka Everyone knows the plot so I digress:I liked this movie. For one thing it followed the golden rule of all film making. "I wonder what happens next." And it did.The writing and the characterizations were well done and not like the robot like characters in 99% of zombie films. Lighting great. scenes great. Location great. The beginning hood scenes of the robbery were cool. They showed character development, believable characters...often missing in zombies movies. In short it started as a real movie, not schlock. So tired of zombies attacking 1 minute after the movie credits start and continuing for 90 more minutes with a 'who cares' about the victims.Dead Heist is a refreshing change from other zombie movies and has an interesting plot, characters and execution. Looking for more films from writer and director.I was wondering why the government dude was letting zombies in, and he told why..to capture them and dispatch them once and for all. Dead Heist is an enjoyable movie experience and breaks the mold.If movies weren't all based on comic books today this would have been in theaters. At least at the drive-ins.Rating: Cool.

Paul Andrews Dead Heist starts in Miami as ex-marine Ackson (D.J. Naylor) becomes fed up with his job as a bodyguard for big time gangster Hustle (E-40) & wants out, meanwhile four of Hustle's minor drug dealers named Ski (Brandon Xavier), Trey (Michael Braxton), Bone (Chris Bailey) & Malcolm (Dominic L. Santana) also want to better themselves. Malcolm speaks to his uncle (Charlie Lucas) about robbing a bank & before you know it the four friends have a plan to make their fortunes. However they need guns & go to Hustle to ask for help, he agrees but only if he has a cut of the loot & if Ackson goes along to watch out for his interests & make sure the job isn't messed up. Reluctantly the five drive to the small town of Maysville where the well stocked bank sits, even though Ackson wants to plan the job properly the other four decide to go in all guns blazing & after the alarm is tripped they become trapped inside the bank with the local police outside, but that is the least of their problems as when night falls cannibalistic zombies flood the town killing & eating anyone they catch...Directed by Bo Webb this horror comedy crime caper mixture reminds of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) in the structure of the script where the opening is purely a crime caper as a robbery goes wrong before taking a very different direction & turning into a horror film as the zombies attack our trapped protagonist's. To be fair to Dead Heist after I realised it was an 'urban' film & maybe an attempt at a modern Blaxploitation flick I shuddered at how bad I expected it to be but I actually thought it was quite good, Dead Heist is no masterpiece by any means but for what it is I found it fairly entertaining & at just over 70 minutes long at least it's short enough not to outstay it's welcome or become annoying. The obvious slant towards black culture & reference & hip-hop jive talking profanity laden dialogue is apparent & while I must admit to not understanding everything that was being said (I speak the Queen's English...) I did find some of it amusing but it's not all good news. Far from it. There's nothing new here, the lack of any big set-pieces or significant gore doesn't help & I suspect much of the film was dictated by the low budget which means the most unsecure bank ever, it's touching to see all the zombies suddenly stop attack Ackson at the end while he comforts his mate who has been bitten & we never get to see any of the town or it's people. Then there are the zombies which are never really explained beyond they escaped from a Government laboratory (yes, that old cliché again...) after a failed experiment or why they can only be killed by being shot through the heart. Overall I thought Dead Heist was quite punchy & quite amusing at times with a likable bunch of character's but it's low budget origins hinder it & it can't quite decide what it wants to be & as a result is a bit of everything.Dead Heist also looks quite good considering it's low budget origins, there's no shaky hand-held camcorder crap or machine gun editing which I hate so much if it's overused & it looks a step-up from the average television film. There's not a lot of gore here, there's some blood splatter & a few bit wounds but nothing else of note. There's a little nudity & a brief lesbian scene. There does seem to be some blatant product placement here as well with virtually all the character's at the start wearing Averix shirts.The IMDb says that Dead Heist had a budget of about $250,000 which sounds about right, filmed in Wilmington in North Carolina. The acting varies, most of it enthusiastic with the bland D.J. Naylor the worst of the leads. Rappers E-40, Bone Crusher & Big Daddy Kane feature although thankfully their music doesn't.Dead Heist wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected it to be, it wasn't great but it has it's amusing moments & the mixture of genres is a little random but gives it a bit of variety. I didn't love it but I didn't hate it either, a commendable effort.

Great-Cthulhu Zombies, our times jack-of-all-trades movie monsters return once more to plague a bunch of gangsters who happen to pull off a heist in the wrong night. That's more or less the complete storyline. Not that I protest too loudly, because most b-grade zombie flicks don't offer much more in the line of storytelling. Alas, Dead Heist, while at least struggling to patch some back-story onto the main characters in the first half, totally abandons anything but pointless dialog in the second and forgets more or less what the heck is the point of a storyline anyway. The cast of course is not exactly 1st class material: Big Daddy Kane is okay, Brandon Hardin manages to pull off quite an okay performance while D. J. Naylor seems way too nice to be the battle-hardened veteran and Traci Dinwiddie – dunno, she mouths the gun-blasts in the final battle, as if to dub them ... meh. And the zombie extras – we'll get back to them. Director Bo Webb at least manages to do some nice shots and the movie's picture quality is better than others in this class of film-making.The first thing that is somewhat dolorous in Dead Heist is that the zombies are nicely introduced while rolling the front credits, but then forgotten for about an hour – and when they are brought back you'd wish the wait would have been worth it. You are wrong. Overall, the zombies were in fact the biggest problem in this flick. That is because Anghus Houvouras (the writer) seems to fancy himself imaginative when he makes them a hybrid from the "fast dead" (as seen in 28 Days Later) and vampires (they drink blood). So far, so yawn – but what's with the "you have to shoot them in the heart to kill them"? Headshots are overdone or what? Surely, zombies usually need a good 12-gauge to the head to keel over – but while it has been of course done a hundred times it is a far more "believable" than killing them with a shot through the heart. But maybe the guys were out for virgin soil or whatever. Then again, the back-story of the "governmental experiments gone awry" sounds somewhat familiar ... but who cares? Nobody but Kane's character as it seems – which is total bull if you follow the background story of them vile undead (or whatever they are): they move south for some time, killing their way through the US of A. Yeah. And nobody knows. Good zombie cinema usually is themed the Zombie Apocalypse way (i.e. the world is overrun by them) – but here all is quiet and the hordes of undead are traveling unmolested far and wide. Makes no sense. That they burrow into the ground for the day (as far as the explanation from the zombie-hunter goes) doesn't help. All this of course wouldn't have troubled the seasoned b-grade movie-fan if not for the total swizz the zombies turn out to be when they finally make their appearance. Not only did they get astonishing numbers of bad extras for the zombies (many stumble around like straw-puppets not sure what to do), they are also totally not frightening and not able to kill four people who are armed with knifes when coming at them at a 25:1 ratio.The final battle is one of the great anti-climaxes of the year. Not only do the movie-makers want us to believe that – as it seems – the whole small town in which the heist takes place is turned into undead morons (which of course nobody seems to pay mind – the place is all but deserted apart for the zombies), but also that the "great plan to eradicate them all" of Mr. Kane's character is, well, to shoot them all with handguns and stab them with knifes. In one of the most silly fights in zombie-flick history they of course succeed (with small back-story interplay and demise of the zombie hunter) and then walk away in the morning sun. Not that anyone in the outside world would have had noticed the nocturnal undead massacre or maybe the missing neighbors. If that final folly would not have been that paining – and the zombies would have been more than totally harmless duds – the movie would have been much better. The undead were never that toothless as here. And that's sad.All in all an underwhelming gangster flick, but a total washout when it comes to being zombie horror. Zombie-maniacs might sit through this one, but they will be disappointed. People who like gangster-movies will more likely stick to it, as the part without the zombies is the better one. This one doesn't hurt, but rather leaves you with a stale taste.(And what's it again with the "Dead" in the title? Any damn zombie flick now more features it, or the equivalent "... of the Dead". Show some imagination, lads.)

theopryde There are two kinds of b movies out there, the ones that are jammed together in the most cynical fashion to wrench out a few bucks and nothing more. then there's movies like 'Dead Heist' where you can just tell that people with little to no budget got together for love of making movies and had a great time in the process. The dialogue is foul and quite hilarious for it, and while the plot is meager at best, there is something infectious (truly no pun intended) about the way everyone involved gives it their all. The small town locations are put to good use, and the violence is never anything but comic book bloody. This movie is nothing but fun and that is all it was ever meant to be. By the way, Zach Hanner rocks.