I Watch 'Em So You Don't Have To

Outright Rip-Offs of George Romero Movies


Flight Of The Living Dead: Outbreak On A Plane aka Plane Dead (2007)


This one's gonna be short. Not because the movie was short, but because it was just waaaay too dumb. The title is an obvious attempt to trick the audience into thinking this is a Romero film. Thankfully it isn't, because I'd really be disappointed in him right now.


Basic plot: Snakes on a plane, except with zombies. Now I'm not saying it's a SOAP ripoff because it actually filmed during the same time as the other movie and was produced independently. But..... given the choice, I'd take the snakes.


Basic plot: On a routine flight from Los Angeles to Paris, scientists has smuggled aboard a secret container holding the wife of one of them infected with a deadly genetically engineered virus which reanimates the dead. Their goal was to produce soldiers who could continue fighting, even while mortally wounded. These are your sporty zombies - they're fast, leap around, do all kinds of things and are super strong. She's in a container which conveniently breaks during air turbulence. The uninfected passengers must now fight the zombies at 30,000 feet.  Maybe they'll become members of the Mile High Zombie Club (sorry).


Nobody wants them to land, leaving the survivors stranded in the sky. Fighter jets are deployed to blow them up, to eradicate the infected (to heck with the survivors). Two of the survivors attempt to signal the fighter jets by making the airplane wings wiggle. The fighter sees this, calls off the strike and the missile explodes besides the plane making a hole and sucking the zombies out (so much for no contamination on the ground). The plane crashes in Missouri and the remaining survivors find that some zombies didn't splat so well, so there is more fighting to do, presumably setting it up for a sequel which thankfully so far has not happened.