A quaint Australian fishing village is overcome by meteorites that turn its residents into the ravenous undead, leaving a small group of those unharmed to find a way out.
The film's genre-merging cleverness works against it, and releasing it in the wake of George Romero's zombie knockout Land of the Dead invites comparisons that may be unfair but inevitable.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
8 Jul 2005
rotten:
Rigor mortis has set in.
– Ty Burr,
Boston Globe,
8 Jul 2005
rotten:
A low-budget, mildly enjoyable oddity.
– Tom Long,
Detroit News,
8 Jul 2005
rotten:
I'm definitely zombied out.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
11 Jul 2005
rotten:
No amount of Zombie Rules can explain a movie like this, or the recent filmmaker fascination with a creaky old genre.