The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)

The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)
aka: World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2
Directors: Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates
Cast: Philip Brodie, Alix Wilton Regan, Rob Oldfield
Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race.

Picking up around the same period as the first Zombies Diaries, this time just following one group of survivors a small set of terrortial army recruits. Even though they're armed they still face the same hazards as any survivor which is primery the undead masses, but also with dwindling food, clean water and medical supplys they also need to fight off a gang of backwards rural survivors.

With having watched both parts 1 and 2 back to back, I came into this one fearing the worse, but I'm glad to say I was proven wrong. Its still no '28 Days/Weeks Later' but its a massive improvement over the first film, clearly due to its improved budget, which in turn as been spent on real actors, helps also that they actually spent a little time on the plot and dialogue. Also unlike its predecessor Zombie Diaries 2 has even got a decent ammount of undead (they don't actually call them zombies within the film itself). Downside again for me at least was how serious it takes itself, a little bit of humour once in while wouldn't have gone a miss, the rape scene seemed tacked on more than being essential to the plot, but who knows by the 3rd outing they could have a breakthrough like Dog Soldiers on their hands.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount NA]
[Gorequota 6/10]

Themes Included: Zombies ● Rape ● Army
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