Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby

On the night of the big High-School Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn't get dates to the dance.

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R, 1 hr. 35 min.

Directed by: Gregg Bishop

Release Date: March 9, 2008

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DVD Release Date: October 14, 2008

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  • April 15, 2009
    Pure, unadulterated geek fun.
  • April 5, 2009
    Dance of the Dead is something of an MTV take on the zombie subgenre: entertaining in practice, but utterly disposable. It'll fade from your mind about an hour after you finish it. The acting is sincere, and the cast is intelligent enough to play it straight while still recognizi...( read more)ng that the movie is a bit of a satire (except for the lousy, over-the-top gym coach). While the conceit is nothing special and there's not a whole lot of innovation to the genre, there are just enough fun little touches to keep this from becoming a complete waste of time. Especially neat sections include the scene in the graveyard where the zombies are bursting from the earth, a clever "dance number" at the end, and some moderately entertaining zombie brawls. It is well-done but ultimately shallow entertainment, amounting to little more than a fun 80 minutes with some friends. Nothing for genre fans to get excited over.
  • January 18, 2009
    ROFL...this was supposed to be a plain ole horror flick, but man this was funny as heck on top of the gore. The story was "brainless" (haha) like most horror flix but I still enjoyed watching it. The humor is what made this one better then the others. Lots of blood and gore...whi...( read more)ch was great. I was super entertained!
  • December 23, 2008
    "It's their night to come alive."

    As prom gets underway and the dead come out to play, the only hope for saving the day is the mismatched couple that can't seem to agree on anything. As the Cosa High School Senior Prom draws near, the local teens are more preoccupied wi...( read more)th getting laid and looking good on the big night. But while local teen Jimmy (Jared Kusnitz) seems completely unfazed by all the infectious enthusiasm that's spreading through the student body, his girlfriend Lindsey (Greyson Chadwick) has thrown herself into the teenage ritual and remains determined to have the perfect romantic evening. But it's kind of difficult to enjoy an intimate dance when your classmates are trying to eat your brains, and when the tux-clad teens begin turning blue and munching on flesh, Jimmy and Lindsey are forced to put their differences aside long enough to extinguish the zombie plague before it spreads beyond campus grounds.

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    Definitely worth a look. Good laughs (good cheesy one liners), good horror, good gore. I was pleased to see a lower budget come out high on my list of zombie picks. Zombie films are a hit and a miss. This one with the humor was a hit. More flicks like this need to be made. I don't want to explain the plot except its a Prom Dance with Zombies. How do you survive? From beginning to end the film keeps you involved. There wasn't a dull moment or too heavy of a character build up. It was a film that doesn't go out for shock value yet creating the B style horror. The CGI was fantastic with ample amounts of gore to please any horror fan.
  • December 19, 2008
    High school Zombie comedy this time with the setting being a school dance. Or so you would think. Despite all the build up and the title, the film never makes the most of its stereotypical teen setting. Most of the film sees people trying to get to the dance. The comedy is simpli...( read more)stic and not that much fun. The Zombie's often look good and there are a few decent jumps, even if stolen from other films. The acting isn't that bad but is simply akin to teen high school comedies. By the time the fil comes to the climax it is hard to care and we end up with just another Zombie film.
  • November 14, 2009
    A b-movie that was quite funny. The best was that the zombies liked hard rock / punk
  • October 17, 2009
    Great zombie movie.Very funny & well done
  • September 26, 2009
    funny but a watch once kinda deal
  • September 24, 2009
    Like many zombie films before it, Dance of the Dead follows the same formula with added ingenuity. We have some unlikely heroes in the various students that missed the prom. A couple of Sci-Fi kids, a local bully, a cheerleader, a trouble-making pizza boy who can't seem to...( read more) stay out of detention, his girlfriend who is part of the student council, three musicians who lost out at playing the school prom, and an ex-veteran coach who leads them like his own platoon. These zombies reminded me of Return of the Living Dead on how they were created with green mist and goo. A local power plant was the cause to all the zombies and it would of been nice to include the destruction of it. The ending was maybe the only thing I didn't agree on. The gore was great in a very comedic sort of way. It seemed these zombies kept a part of their everyday life. We have a pair even driving a pizza delivering car. Dance of the Dead is a great addition to the zombie market.
  • September 5, 2009
    ok din.. puro kalokohan.. tumitigil ung mga zombie sa music..

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