Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 20 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 20
  2. Negative: 9 out of 20
  1. 50
    A campy, low-budget Romero homage that's badly in need of editing.
  2. 38
  3. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    In Undead, sadly, rigor mortis has set in.
  4. 70
  5. This gory, ghoulishly funny horror goof is shameless fun in its own right.
  7. It gets duller and duller as it turns out to have used up all its amusing tricks in that first 30 minutes.
  8. Reviewed by: Laura Kern
  9. The over-the-top tone gets stale awfully quickly -- especially once it becomes clear that it's all wacky style over any real attempt at substance.
  10. If only they didn't cannibalize their source material so much, then take an extreme rule reversal just before the end credits, they might have achieved something original, rather than just a fan-fiction derivation of George A. Romero's canon.
  11. Gore fans will dig the makeup effects and some of the tongue-in-cheek slice-&-dice.
  12. At best a little boring and at worst stomach-churningly offensive.
  13. 50
  14. 40
    As always, there's the combustible band of mismatched survivors.
  15. Reviewed by: David Stratton
  16. Initially artsy, then campy, then tense, it would have worked better if writer-directors Peter and Michael Spierig had kept everything serious and let the inherent absurdism of zombie attacks speak for itself without additional ironic comment.
  17. Reviewed by: Tim Grierson
    Flesh-eating fish notwithstanding, Peter and Michael Spierig's low-budget schlock-horror parody brings precious little new to the undead genre.
  20. The story is more undead than all of these revenant shufflers. And the orgy of gore and home-engineered special effects doesn't make up for the shortfall.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 20 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 14
  3. Negative: 5 out of 14
  1. Jul 20, 2013
  2. TylerD.
    Jan 25, 2006
  3. MikeE
    Jan 5, 2006