Director Jim Jarmusch
Starring Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tom Waits
Rated MA
Score 5/6

The peaceful town of Centerville finds itself battling a zombie horde as the dead start rising from their graves.

I think it has been more then a little while since I have last watched a Zombie movie, and as far as Zombie movies go The Dead Don’t Die certainly is, Different. From your garden variety Zombie you would expect the action to move at a steady rate and there to be a certain amount of gore with the Zombie kills. The Dead Don’t Die does do any of that and has a particularly slow first twenty minutes and I have a feeling that this one of the more slower moving Zombie movies that has been released in recent years and the effects used for the zombie deaths reminded me of the vampires turning to dust in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
I am very unfamiliar with Jim Jarmusch’s work as a director (or career as a whole come to think of it). A lot of familiar faces where cast in this and there were some very interesting moments throughout the movie such as the coffee zombies, the reveal of the first zombie attack and the final sequence in the graveyard. Both Bill Murray and Adam Driver made for a good onscreen duo and the 4th wall breaking moments by Driver’s character Officer Ronnie Peterson certainly unexpected but to me seemed to fuel some of the more light-hearted moments of the movie. I loved Tilda Swinton’s performance awkward badass is a character description that I was not expecting to use when I sat down to watch this movie.
It seemed that the speech at the end of the movie was a nod to George A. Romero’s 1978 Dawn of the Dead.