Undead (2003)
Directed by Peter Spierig
A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
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The Spierig Brothers' breakthrough film, Undead (2003), showed enough gory promise and witty use of OTT special effects to make their follow-up effort a calendar-crossing must-see for horror buffs.
So goes the premise of Daybreakers, a profoundly original genre story created by Australian filmmaking brothers Michael and Peter Spierig who cut their teeth some years ago with the campy, but successful zombie flick, Undead.
Horror nuts who attend film festivals and / or bother to look past the studio releases on the horror shelves will no doubt remember Undead, a scrappy and exceedingly raucous horror / sci-fi combo that the Spierig brothers offered a few years back.
The writing-directing brothers, whose previous credit is the zombie thriller "Undead", are quickly becoming the Wachowskis of the horror genre.
Peter and Michael Spierig's earlier, campier horror outing, the zombie picture known as "Undead," was even bloodier than this one.
My initial hesitation with “Daybreakers” was brought on by the Spierig Brothers, who last created the 2004 zombie comedy, “Undead.”
Australian writer/directors Michael and Peter Spierig have played with zombies and vampires in their films "Undead" and "Daybreakers" with fair to middling results.
They have directed television ads and short films about zombies but it was their Australian zombie feature film Undead which gave them a cult status.