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<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">    <p>15 months after the zombie apocalypse, things aren't really that bad anymore - sure, civilization by and large has been destroyed, but the zombies as such have gone from being a real threat to be a bit of a bother, easily disposed of by golf club due to their state of rot. In that climate, Major Gibson (Joe Rainbow) and Sergeant Mac (Jim Sweeney) lead a prisoner about to be executed, Sykes (Eric Colvin), and a bunch of civilians - Beaumont (Danny Brown), his daughter Becca (Rachel Nottingham), his fuckbuddy Harden (Jade Colucci), religious nutter Esther (Shamiso Mushambi), and clueless Gandhi (Simon Burbage), who just happens to have the hots for Becca (and can you blame him) - safely through a supposedly zombie-infested forest. But from the sight of things, Gibson is exactly the last guy the others need for their safety, as he gets himself caught in a beartrap, bit by a zombie, and if it wasn't for an emergency amputation by Sykes of all people, he would have died then and there right away. The motley crew find their way to an abandoned schoolhouse used as a fall-out shelter - but only once inside out heroes wonder why this was barricaded from the outside. And then they wonder no longer as there are tons of zombies - but regarding they are cut off humans here as they have existed in here cut off for months, why do they seem quite so fresh and well-fed. And then it occurs to our heroes, they have their own Messiah (Rupert Phelps), a zombie the other zombies worship because he can bring the (un)dead back to life for the others to feed on them (again) to later even return their severed limbs, and who might just as well be the second coming of Jesus Christ. Now while Major Gibson slowly turns into a zombie and Sgt Mac has come to respect Sykes, Sykes - who knows a great deal more about zombies than anyone else - figures this Messiah might be the key to a lot of things and wants to take him captive ... but there's the zealog ot the group, Esther, who thinks the Messiah might be the real thing (and why not?), and wants to just worship him, there are the other group members who all have their own opinions, and not all footed in any form of deep thinking, and there's Asher (Georgia Winters), a girl they have picked up on the premises who has apparently lived here with the zombies for months, and who seems to be deeply traumatized - but then again, she has survived all this time ...<p>Anyways, all this can only lead to - well, disaster would be my guess ...<p> <p>On the surface, <b>Zombie Resurrection</b> will of course forever remain "the one with the zombie Jesus" - and while in principle this is of course absolutely correct, it also sells the film short, makes it into a one-trick pony, and one just exploiting the "Jesus is the first zombie"-punchline.<p>Thing is, <b>Zombie Resurrection</b> does not even develop its story on that punchline, it does tell a well-spun yarn that does indeed have some Jesus-allusions, but the story as such is not centered solely around it but around a dissonant group of people trying (and failing, mostly) to stay alive, and their "saviour" might be the biggest death traps of all. All this is carried, rather than just by bloods and buts (though there is that, too) by a great cast of characters embodied by a very decent cast, dark humour ranging from the subtle to the sometimes suibably over-the-top, and a genre-conscious yet laid back directorial effort.<p>Well, not everybody might be into zombies, but that is one really likeable movie! <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2015"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>