The Dead 2: India

"The Dead 2: India" is not an excellent zombie horror, as there is too much empty space where not much happens. However, the creators are still in the spirit of the previous film and focus primarily on the story, not so much on the zombies themselves. There is gore here, but it is not exaggerated. "The Dead 2: India" keeps a human aspect and is interested in the people, which ultimately leads to the horror elements fading away. Nonetheless, it remains a good film. (20.07.2015)

A notch less dark, a notch less interesting, a notch less scary. You have to wait long for any action scene and when it finally comes, the director turns on the slow-mo. The relocation to India seems utterly pointless – the first one was greatly helped by its untraditional setting in Africa, which the creators used with skill, but the sequel lacks any proper use of the Indian setting, and the poetics are too similar to the first one. Bugger! If there’s a zombie outbreak in a poor and overpopulated city of an overpopulated country, what I expect is chaos, filth and hordes of zombies everywhere. But instead of that, the only thing pointing to the Indian location are the terrible Indian actors (you almost expect them to start dancing at any moment). But not to be only critical, there are some visually nice scenes and well executed atmospheric sequences here and there, but overall it’s an uninteresting and weaker copy of something we’ve already seen and, therefore, a pointless sequel. (06.09.2014)