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Here comes yet another zombie movie. Is it just me, or do I hear groans from the audience? If you think you've seen the worst zombie film yet, Undead might just make you change your mind.

The movie tells the tale of a sleepy fishing town in Australia which is hit by a shower of asteroids carrying a virus that infects the townspeople, changing them into flesh-eating zombies.

The heroes in the story are a bunch of mismatched characters that seemed to be inspired by characters from successful movies like The Matrix and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Leading the eccentric troop of protagonists is local beauty (as the movie proclaims - your opinion may differ) Rene, played by Felicity Mason, who is expert in looking scared and handling guns without seeming to have had any experience. Joining her are town weirdo Marion (Mungo McKay), a young man Wayne and his pregnant wife Sallyanne; Molly, a policewoman, and her swear-happy sergeant Harrison.

The flick gets to a less than promising start by introducing several main characters before confusing viewers with an absolutely baffling storyline, consisting of meteorites, zombies, acid rain, strange lights in the sky and robed figures who turn out to be aliens.

And it gets worse. The storyline utterly breaks down. There are many questions that have no answers, for example: Why the aliens came, who they are, why are there even aliens in a zombie movie in the first place? Rather than keeping us at the edge of our seats to find out, viewers are begging for the film to end as soon as possible.

Directors, the Spierig Brothers, first-timers like the rest of the cast, fail miserably in bringing out the essence of a good zombie flick. Their undead move so slowly that no one actually gets killed unless they literally stand there waiting for death to happen. If you think that translates into few bloody scenes, you'll meet with the movie's only surprise, a gory blood fest that makes Kill Bill look tame in comparison. It's really so bad it's not even funny. And did we mention the characters' liberal use of the f*** word? You're likely to come out of this film never wanting to hear the word again - it's like a broken record.

A pathetic film in all senses of the word, and definitely not worth watching unless you derive sadistic pleasure from human body parts flying across the screen in bits and pieces.