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Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Paul Andrews Last Rites of the Dead is set in a world where the dead don't stay dead, any freshly deceased person returns to life as a zombie. Office worker Angela (Gina Ramsden) is shot dead by her abusive boyfriend Josh (Joshua Nelson) but she doesn't stay dead for long, Angela quickly learns that being a zombie is difficult. Your skin rots, you have no legal rights & you are treated as dirt by the living. As the debate rages over what should be done about the living dead a section of society who are against zombies having equal rights set up their own terrorist organisations who persecute the zombie population as they try to get on with their lives (death's?) in normal society. Josh is one such extremist & joins one such organisation & uses his knowledge of Angela to help further his cause...Edited, written, co-produced & directed by Matt Fratto who also co-composed the music score & also known under the title Zombies Anonymous I have to say I thought this was crap despite all the glowing reviews from people who seem to have seen it at some obscure film festival & somehow that makes it great. Unfortunately I had to endure the full almost two hour cut of this crap rather than the shorter US DVD version which apparently makes no sense but would have thankfully lasted for twenty odd minutes less, I just have no luck at all. Last Rites of the Living Dead is an all too obvious take on the issue of mass immigration & racist attitudes. I guess the filmmakers were trying to go down the George A. Romero route by mixing zombies & (rubbish unconvincing) gore with a little bit of social commentary & satire but fail miserably, I will give Last Rites of the Dead some credit as the initial ten or fifteen minutes are quite good as the script focuses on the plight of a zombie in the real world, the fact they wouldn't be entitled to any money or have any rights, adverts on telly for make-up to hide rotting skin, the issue of termination centres & the basic core of the film the racist attitudes of the living. But once all the clever little allegories & references are out of the way including a support group for zombies in which they call themselves the 'mortally challenged' the film focuses on the battle between some left wing Nazi style terrorist group who attack & kill zombies & Angela & her struggles to survive in the world as one of the living dead. The plot is poor, there's some crap about a zombie cult which in a way exonerates the racists & what they are doing, the character's are poor, the dialogue is rubbish with every other word being a profanity because that's as imaginative as the writers can be & the film never elaborates or builds on it's central premise & the issues & ideas it first brings up. I also thought the film was incredibly boring with poor narrative & a very bitty plot that falls apart at the end& becomes a mess.Don't let anyone con you into thinking this is gory, sure there's a bit of blood but it's very poorly realised with very watery blood & poor make-up effects created by the interestingly named 'Demonic Pumpkins' whoever they are. There's some decapitations, some severed heads placed on stakes, there's a few exploding heads, a few bites, a bit of flesh eating, some blood splatter & a really poor scene in which Angela cuts Josh's testicles off & he just literally stands there & lats her do it. I'm not being funny but if I was stabbed in the groin I would at least take a few steps back to try & get away from my attacker, wouldn't you? Or would you just stand there & let them continue to mutilate you? The zombies in this aren't a bad lot really, they still have their human personalities & even though some like to eat human flesh most don't. Bless 'em. Shot almost entirely during the day in the cast & crews homes there's nothing scary here, there's no tension or atmosphere & the action & set-pieces are poorly handled throughout.Shot in New York this has all the production value & polish of one of my holiday videos, it looks awful with a really digital video camcorder look to it that I despise so much. I really wish filmmakers would go back to using grainy 35mmm film. Sigh. The acting by no-one I have ever heard of is up to the standard of the rest of the production, basically it's crap.Last Rites of the Living Dead had a few promising Romero style touches & ideas at the start but it all goes downhill very quickly & I thought it was pretty crap all round. It tries to clever & say something about immigration & racism in particular but it forgets all about the entertainment value in the process.

ZRambeau First off let me say that this film should be examined within the confines of low budget horror films. Does it stack up against Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later? No. Those are examples of both realms of monetary breathing room, Dawn of the Dead- High, and 28 Days Later- medium. Zombie Anonymous or Last rites of the Dead had much less to work with. Having said that, this film was both innovative and thought provoking. Two things that money can't buy. the director Marc Fratto used some very interesting tools in his vision of life after death (meaning Zombification) Think Racism or something like it, also, think AA or something like it. Two concepts that have only been captured in a few other Zombie films. The acting is good for the most part, there are a few people who are in the peripheral cast that didn't quite cut it but this is to be expected for such an independent film. I only have two complaints, 1 the portrayal of ZA is nothing like AA or NA but more like group therapy, though, It fits when the movie shows the "darkside" of being a Zombie. 2 the action sequences seemed to draw on a little. The only reason I say that is because the story line and the concepts the director plays with were so interesting, I felt myself wanting more philosophy and well brain food (haha) As previously stated this film was thought provoking, I would like to thank the director Marc Fratto for a new idea in a hurting genre, see diary of the dead, and also congratulate him and his cast on a job well done.I found this movie at blockbuster of all places, Its a must see for anyone who enjoys the Zombie scene.

apologizetotheman I saw this at the nyc horror film fest a few years back when it was released as Last Rights of the Dead, and loved it. One of the best indie low budget horror movies i've ever seen. Then I rented it as Zombies Anonymous, when it was released on DVD. Its still good, but not the same movie. A lot of crucial scenes were cut out of the last half of the movie, that tied the plot together.Some of it is kind of confusing now. They cut out a crucial bunch of scenes when the Comandant chops off her hair, dyes it and shoots herself in the head, so she'll be mistaken as a zombie, and gain access to the cult. Now she just turns up dead, with blond short hair. They also cut out a lot of the gore and the beheadings. and the scenes when the cult attempts to brainwash the main zombie girl Verene't there either. now, it's kind of confusing why she has to fight the cult at the end. either version is still good, but the one i saw in theaters was better, and made more sense. this new version seemed like they cut out a lot of plot to get to the action. hopefully they'll be putting out the longer version.

eldarthepilot I just caught this at the New York Horror Film Festival. It was the best movie in the festival, by far. Absolutely original story, a really cool twist to the whole zombie genre. Here, the zombies become the worlds new second class, and face discrimination and beatings by hooligans. They start to form terrorist groups and a war breaks out. I love this movie because this is the first zombie film I've seen where you actually root for the zombies! The hero of the movie is a girl who is shot to death in the first scene by her crazy ex boyfriend and has to adjust to life as one of the walking dead. She's really likable, and very cute and goes through a lot during the course of this movie. I love the scenes where she joins the zombie support group. There's so much going on here, its hard to get it all across in a brief review, but this movie is funny, scary, exciting and action packed. There's some incredible action sequences, and the gore and violence is non-stop. There's some amazing flesh eating scenes, and the movie has some really genuinely dramatic scenes, like a scene when one character is turned into a zombie and cries for his mother as his friends have to finish him off. The movie is also stylishly shot, and has some awesome music. When this movie gets released, definitely check it out. It's one of the best independent horror films I've ever seen.