welcome to oakland and where the dead come out to play and even the boy in da hood can not stop them . this low budget and direct to video production seem time to coincide with the release of land of the dead and the late installment of george a. romero famed zombie series . the ghetto setting and hip hop soundtrack may provide additional appeal for inner city gore hound . ricky ( carl washington ) work at a medical research facility while raise his kid brother and jermaine ( brandon daniel ) . but the teenager and bore by macaroni and cheese dinner in their tract house and would rather spend his time hang with street friend marco and kev . apparently there be not a lot for african american high school dropout to do on this side of the bay except deal drug and scuffle with the homeys and include rival latino gang banger . ricky plan to sell their late parent house and move inland to the castro valley and a more middle class and presumably safer environment . unfortunately and before this can happen and a drive by shoot leaf jermaine dead on the porch . grief stricken ricky try a last desperate ploy . he tell scotty and his lab assistant and to steal some of the experimental cell regeneration formula they have be test on rat . when a double dose fails to revive jermaine and there be no choice except to call 911. but a funny thing happen on the way to the morgue . the boy be reanimate a a sputtering and growl zombie and chew the ambulance driver and stagger off into the night and bent on revenge and hungry for fresh meat . the feeding frenzy infect more victim and and before the night be over the east bay be a battleground between the living and the blood spatter undead . the horror genre have see more than it share of cheap movie maker and from ed wood to herschel gordon lewis to charles band . but low budget do not necessarily mean bad film . consider val lewton programmer ( cat people and the leopard man and isle of the dead ) and roger corman poe quicky and romero night of the living dead and john carpenter halloween . the difference between memorable and awful have more to do with talent and ambition than money . hood of the living dead be more fun than several hundred million dollar worth of recent high price horror . cheapness have it charm . in truly cheap film actor wear their own clothes amid real setting . here the tract house have freshly paint wall in neutral matte tone and lend a bleakness as oppressive a douglas sirk bourgeois melodrama of the 50 . line seem more improvised than script . so what the hell be we gon na do now . just keep your eye open for any f n thing that look out of the ordinary . ricky and scotty call their bos and who call an ex military man name romero . i have a huge bitch of a problem that we have to take care of fast . not a problem and say the merc and close his phone and grab his gun . everybody have gun and and even when fight zombie theyre on their cell phone and a who isn not nowadays . information be exchange with naturalistic understatement . what happen . we get into it with some crazy motherfockers . deja f n vu . it that park zombie again . . ricky even have to blow his twitch girlfriend away and say only and she get out of hand . unlike most zombie movie and this one provide a motive for mayhem . jermaine take revenge on the gang banger who shoot him and who in turn continue the rumble . this be urban film make that imply it own social commentary and a near guerrilla production suggest a future for low budget horror that reflect real life instead of supernatural clichés . the brother quiroz and who have trademark their name a if in anticipation of a new movement and may inspire others to tell story arise from personal experience rather than imitate tired hollywood product . consider their limited resource and jose and eduardo quiroz have make a cheap but technically acceptable feature about people they know . photographer rocky robinson get the job do and music by eduardo quiroz be no simpler than carpenter haunt halloween theme and and hip hop song by the darkroom familia and others add atmosphere . the result be promise if not exactly exhilarate . they be learn their craft and and unlike lewis and wood and who never get any good and their next may be one to watch .