With the exception of some lovely Snowdonia locations and a couple of decent costumes, while not the worst zombie movie out there(Vampegeddon, Zombie Night and Dead Men Walking for examples are far worse) Knight of the Dead is a disaster. The special effects are wisely sparsely used but that wasn't an excuse for them to be as cheap as they were- yes even for the budget the movie had, they looked hastily slapped together and made-at-last-minute quality. The gore and decapitations looked silly and felt excessive at times, and there is no better news about the photography and lighting, which takes bleak to extremes to the extent some of the action is not easy to see and there is the very odd effect of the zombies' heads looking like they were floating like balloons. Aside from a couple of the costumes(not all, others did look fancy-dress remains), there was very little sense of the medieval atmosphere or atmosphere in general. The script certainly sounds like a rough draft and has so much cheese it makes the eyes roll. Again it doesn't very little like how medieval speak, a lot of it is very bad modern talk that fails to make sense. The characters are basically archetypes lacking in any kind of personality and development, plus they annoy with how nonsensical a lot of their actions are, and the acting is very going-through-the-motions and mannequin-like from the whole cast with no spontaneity or enthusiasm whatsoever. The worst thing to me was the story, which is so thin it's barely there and it's made worse by a pace that begs for a steroid shot of a very large dosage, some slower-paced scenes barely even move. The scenes with the zombies are very under-populated, the horror is cheaply done and predictable that they are no scares, the movie is far too dull to be fun and it is difficult to be excited when everything just seems so half-hearted. To me as well, the medieval vibe and the use of zombies had a very two different movies feel which was really jarring. To conclude, not the worst zombie movie out there but apart from two halfway-decent things is a disaster. 2/10 Bethany Cox

I agree 100% with Sjaak Schulteis' review. This movie's appalling, in spite of a promising pitch: the Holy Grail moving through a zombie-filled valley of the shadows of death in the hands of fearsome knights? The plot could have been a killer. Alas! What a disaster. The lack of color, terrible acting, poor shooting (not even giving justice to the beauty of the surrounding landscape...), poor assembling and editing, and this overall, lingering, "this is a (dead-)serious movie so us guys, actors, need to act tough and avoid any hint of humor" feeling just got me worked up in the end, struggling to watch the whole atrocity. I did, eventually, but there was no redeeming for this lazy movie. Actors behave like they are wondering why they're on the set. The storyline never makes it to cruise speed. There is no suspense or challenge of any kind that makes it worth watching it to the end. A total collapse.

This film probably had a budget of maybe £2-3000 and was shot around llanberris...to be fair it's better than rubber (which had a huge budget in comparison) and without a decent budget it's pretty much doomed to fail.this seems like the sort of film students would come up with for their gcse media studies or drama.given a better budget,this film could have had some much potential.some of the actors we're a little off,in so far as they didn't have the full enthusiasm to make a good film (like dead snow) as say some one like Vigo Mortessen or Orlando bloom,but then again most of them are probably just out of drama school or what ever. anyways give it a watch and cringe at all the weak plot points or bad bits of acting etc.best bit:the bandit leader leading his bandits after the knights worst bit:the "copy and pasted" zombie.brainz!

I downloaded the movie: nearly 7 gigabyte of boring material. I went through some scenes which spoke for themselves: bad acting, unrealistic shoots. What bothered me too was at some point I see a guy and a woman making out and you can see a PIERCING through her left nipple!!! In that time period? I don't believe it was intentional. Didn't the makers of the movie have the time to let her take at least that thing out? The first thing though that bothered me was the lack of colors in the movie. That's why I started scrolling through the movie, to see if there were any colors later on. It turned from gray to dark! Then there was the hunt in a scenery full of rocks. It seemed to go on for ever and it was just a way to make the movie as cheap as possible. I'm not going to watch the full movie. I will delete it from my hard-drive and put the title of the list of movies never to be watched.