Better Off Undead

3/28/2015

I first became acquainted with the work of John Pata when I reviewed his amazing (and amazingly different than this) DEAD WEIGHT (review here), one of my favorite films of last year. In doing an interview with Pata and DW co-director Adam Bartlett (here), Pata told me that DW wasn’t his first zombie movie. His first zombie flick was this one, BETTER OFF UNDEAD. So I decided for Halloween Horror 2013 that I would feature Pata’s earlier film. So just to set the bar early: BOU is a very, very low-budget film. This is a “let’s make a movie with our friends” sort of film, but it embraces that aesthetic quite well, and if as a viewer you don’t mind the more-heart-than-cash sort of films, this shouldn’t be a problem. If you’re expecting DAWN OF THE DEAD remake quality production, you can proba