I was genuinely impressed with this low budget flick! It was not at all what I expected. I went in expecting some slapstick hijinks about dead people trying to live in modern world, but wound up engrossed in an insightful and thought provoking film. ************************spoilers ahead********************** There were a few flaws such as flat lighting / cinematography at certain points, and I found the end scenes in the "bad" zombie house to be a little over the top, and some people might not like how the zombies can still feel pain etc. However, I found the camera work and editing top notch, all of the actors were generally believable as real people. I found the commandant to be a truly terrifying and WONDERFULLY portrayed character. Yeah, not much else to say about this movie. I loved it, hope the cast and crew keep up the good work. You could tell this was a real labor of love. It was a shining gem amidst all the other low budget / Indie zombie films out there today.

If you ever get tired of the same old, traditional Zombie flicks like Dawn Of The Dead, and pretty much anything from the criminally overrated George Romero, I'd suggest giving up the mainstream stuff indefinitely, because you're not gonna find it there. If you're looking for an original Zombie flick, and you don't mind a low budget. you've found it. This is Zombies Anonymous! Nowadays, when you die, your soul no longer leaves your body. Harsh, but true. A chick named Angela is right in the middle of a fight with her boyfriend, is hoping this hotheaded young man doesn't go off and shoot her, because she's really not into the whole living dead thing. Because if she doesn't survive, this new lifestyle will most definitely be in her future... So, anyway. now that Angela's undead, she's stuck in a world that's afraid of her. A world that hates her. A world that gives her very few options. For example, getting/holding a job will be almost impossible. And there's this whole thing where Angela feels incredible pain if she goes long enough without eating human flesh. She can pretend to be a regular person all she wants. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but without Human flesh, functioning is almost impossible.While being over-the-top, gruesome, and dark-humored, Zombies Anonymous has quite a deep, semi-touching story, which seems to be about adapting to a new way of life. Well, that and discrimination. Reflecting how people fear, and ultimately hate what they don't understand. If you end up diggin' Zombies Anomymous, I'd highly recommend a film from the same director, called Strange Things Happen At Sundown. One Of The Best Vampire flicks I've come across. This Marc Fratto guy is one of the few bright spots in B-cinema over the last decade, and I look forward to anything else he comes up with. In case you've ever heard about a micro-budget, shot-on-video from the 90's called Shatter Dead, Zombies Anonymous is basically a ripoff of that one. at least the basic idea is. Ultimately, this one blows Shatter Dead away, gore-wise, creativity-wise, & entertainment-wise. you can't compare the two. However, I'd recommend you check out both of them. Zombies Anonymous obviously isn't the traditional Zombie story. And I hardly see that as a bad thing. 8/10

I was very much looking forward to this movie after seeing the outstanding Strange Things Happen at Sundown by the same crew. But this movie doesn't have the humor and thrills that Strange Things had. And it's not nearly half as entertaining.We start by seeing various news feeds about people not dying or the dead returning to life. Then we meet Josh who in a rage shoots his girlfriend Angela. For reasons unknown, indeed anyone who dies comes back to life. Angela is no different. They do all seem to suffer from some skin decay but otherwise are no different from humans, well that and some of them feed on living flesh.The unique aspect of the story is that with this many zombies, they now form a full minority group that suffer discrimination, that has its own support group, that is attacked for being different, etc. Angela, for instance joins Zombies Anonymous (hence the title) a support group that among other things tries to quench their hunger for flesh. All this is quite funny and ingenious.We also get to meet 3 tough-guy wanna bees who terrorize and attack our poor zombies and are eager to join an anti-zombie gang, led by someone called The Commandant, a tough chick. They manage to join and our gang works on hits against zombies.Parallel to this gang and the Commandant is a group of zombies led by a girl named Solstice who presents herself as some type of angelic spiritual guru figure and works on getting zombies to relish their flesh eating nature rather than to try and "recover" or pretend to be normal.This all leads to rather violent confrontations among these groups.The resulting movie isn't quite as interesting as the story may sound. The main problem is that these zombies are presented as a sympathetic weak minority rather than the brutal killers we expect and want them to be. They are pretty low on the social and animal scale and humans kick them around easily. So we have a zombie movie with unscary zombies. Not good. Second, this movie is rather tame- lacking violence, gore, and nudity. Some of the violence and gore has been edited out by the moronic distributors who also changed the title. But for once, the new title is actually better than the original "Last Rites of the Dead" which sounds much more dark, lofty, and horrific than the resulting movie. Thankfully, the producers posted the missing scenes on YouTube. So its not clear what the original movie would have been like in its fullness.Compared to the masterpiece that Strange Things at Sundown is (that's right), this movie just doesn't give us much to like. The main character of Angela is rather dull nor is she pretty enough to make up for the dullness. There aren't really any character to like or root for. The Commandant, which is the only interesting character, is presented as too mean to like. The movie obviously doesn't want us to like someone who is out there to kill some harmless minority. In a way this movie, thematically at least, tries to be somewhat of a standard Hollywood movie: politically correct; all the men are presented as dumb; there's not 1 but 3 main female characters: the heroine victim and the two evil characters. As a result it is far less edgy and original than expected. Somewhat worth a rental, but definitely don't miss Strange Things Happen at Sundown.

I saw this at the nyc horror film fest a few years back when it was released as Last Rights of the Dead, and loved it. One of the best indie low budget horror movies i've ever seen. Then I rented it as Zombies Anonymous, when it was released on DVD. Its still good, but not the same movie. A lot of crucial scenes were cut out of the last half of the movie, that tied the plot together.Some of it is kind of confusing now. They cut out a crucial bunch of scenes when the Comandant chops off her hair, dyes it and shoots herself in the head, so she'll be mistaken as a zombie, and gain access to the cult. Now she just turns up dead, with blond short hair. They also cut out a lot of the gore and the beheadings. and the scenes when the cult attempts to brainwash the main zombie girl Verene't there either. now, it's kind of confusing why she has to fight the cult at the end. either version is still good, but the one i saw in theaters was better, and made more sense. this new version seemed like they cut out a lot of plot to get to the action. hopefully they'll be putting out the longer version.