Helena and her boyfriend Martin are driving through Leitrim county in rural Ireland when they hit a man on the road.They place the body in the car to take him with them only for the body to come back to life and bite Martin in the neck.Helena runs to a farmhouse to get help,only to be attacked by zombies that close in all around,which include the now dead Martin.The local gravedigger Desmond comes to her aid.They flee through the countryside,joined by various others, avoiding zombies that appear everywhere.It appears that the outbreak has been caused by humans eating meat infected with Mad Cow Disease."Dead Meat" is very gory and I applaud it for that.The acting is surprisingly professional and the climax is surprisingly downbeat in the vein of Romero's "The Crazies".Check it out.

Low-budget zombieflicks are actually my biggest passion by the moment. I like the dirty feeling about them, and the fact that the movie was made by fans & for fans. Dead Meat is perfect example. Conor McMahon gotta be inspired by Peter Jackson. Seriously, you can see the influences from space! The comedy from Bad Taste, the feeling from Bad Taste, the gore from Bad Taste and so on... The Camera-work thus remind me about Evil Dead though, not something made by Peter Jackson, and i like that. A lot. Now you may say "Fuck that, where's the real meat of the film?!" and don't you worry, the special FX is there. Oh it's there alright. What we have here is a lot of decapitations, a brain sucked out by a freaking vacuum cleaner, some neat gut-munching, a shovel stuck in a zombie's stomach which follows hilarious consequenses. And the zombies? They are nasty. Dead nasty. They are at that point of decay when the skin starts falling of. In other words, the make-up is phenomenal! I'm not gonna be a jerk and repeat the plot like a thousands of other reviewers has done. You can read the plot on hundreds of sites. Don't have a cow, man. Oh yeah, that reminded me, there are zombiecows in this movie. Get on your knees and pray (or milk), dirtbag!

This movie, with no lie, brings me back to the original feel of Night of the Living Dead & Dawn of the Dead. The story was simple, the characters where great, but most of all the zombies and the gore factor were classic B movie. I mean that out of respect as a true B movie zombie/horror movie fan.It is refreshing to see a movie with an extremely low budget,depend on old school horror movie techniques and great gory story lines. There was not a slow moment in this movie. It kept me on my toes, and I didn't want it to end.I think Dead Meat 2 would be a f@#k'n great idea, only if it had the same writers and the same budget.Favourate lines in movie:"i heard that every time someone dies, another star appears."" well there's a lot of stars out tonight"Very Dawn of the Dead. The whole "when hell is full, the dead will walk the earth ." , kind of thing.

It seems weird that I find myself complaining this movie is too short, given how many movies are at least an hour too long these days, but Dead Meat really needed more space. It's tiny 70 minute run time barely gives it time to introduce characters, let alone explain it's whacked-out plot-line.While Dead Meat is getting itself cracking, it's pretty cool. For one, it's daylight, which is a little different for these movies, and the sprightly camera work recalls movies like Braindead and the Evil Dead series (if a little less proficient than those two.). Still, it already has problems. The plot suggests that it's trying to be funny, but aside from a few bad taste laughs at gore shots, you won't be finding this movie remotely funny. It's got more in common with Night of the Living Dead than Bad Taste, and almost all the laughs come at the expense of the gore-shots, which are messy but very derivative (aside from one fantastic instance involving a vacuum cleaner and an eyeball.) and no gore-hound will be particularly impressed with what's on offer, originality wise.It sucks at being scary too. Zombie attacks are badly handled, with no real scares to speak of and shoddy lighting and direction leading to a lot of confusion as to who's fighting who. Not that you'll care, with the exception of undertaker Des, the characters are weak and badly written, not that you'd notice given most of them are packing effected accents that garble half their lines. I'm not talking about the Irish guys either. Main character Helena is indecipherable for a lot of the run-time.I wish this film had carried through on it's excellent first half, but once a plot has to come out, it just doesn't have the goods. The only real joy you can pull out of this movie is if you view it as a cheap gore flick and go in for the blood, as it has a lot, and it's surprisingly nasty for a 15. If you REALLY dig gore and don't care how bad movies are if they have good gore shots, check this out, if not, I'd avoid it. Oh, and on a side note, the ending sucks. Do yourself a favour, avoid this and rent Versus or Undead instead.