Platoon of the Dead is a super-low budget zombie movie, about a small group of three soldiers, led by an officer who looks like a squat Jack Sparrow, and including a jerk soldier who looks like Richard Dean Anderson combined with Christopher Lloyd. After surviving their squadron being attacked by zombies, they take refuge in an old house occupied by three women.Overall, this movie was fairly dull and forgettable. It isn't inept enough in most categories to laugh at, but just inept enough to not be actually engaging. The monotonous line deliveries and a couple of laser battles were the funniest aspects.The movie features digital visual effects, such as laser fire and disintegrating bodies. In camera special effects include zombies melting into caramel, and a guy impaled by a dull tree branch.For reference, this movie is a slight step ahead of Zombie Night from a technical and artistic standpoint, however, Platoon of the Dead does not get as many unintentional laughs. One star for attempting to create a coherent story, one point for efforts in making the film, and one point for lasers.

From the low quality camera work, hammy acting, ridiculous props, awful script, ludicrously bad effects, and stupid plot, you might think, "Man, this is a terrible movie." But no, what makes this movie so bad is much, much more than this. What really makes this movie so unbearable is the fact the film makers know that they suck, and revel in it. They make a mockery of the war movie genre, the zombie genre (both of which I am a huge fan of), and a mockery of amateur film makers. The only bright spots of the movie are the end, and some of the lines in the script that actually show the makers put some effort into writing the movie. However, even these well-written parts are lost on the actors, and in the end get delivered with the same derisive, poorly-timed, poorly-emoted effort as the rest of the film. All in all, a thoroughly terrible movie.

Sure this was a bad movie but it was watchable. The plot, despite being as thin as buttermilk to start with eventually curdled into an intriguing idea. And for that reason alone it was worth watching. With some development I could imagine a series of kick-dead-ass movies based on the premise. It's undeniable that it was all over the place in the acting, filming, score and direction but it was sort of like a twisted "Dog Soldiers" (maybe). The plastic guns and Star Wars type lasers didn't detract from the movie. The long-haired captain was interesting as were the others. Basically, think Ed Wood and you won't be far wrong, although in PotD the sets weren't cardboard.

OK, I love zombie movies. I also don't understand how "movies" like this get their space on IMDb. I am sure i can have my family Christmas movies rated here as well (they are MUCH MORE entertaining than this). Honestly, I saw the first 10 minutes of this movie and it was a torture. OK, about the acting - DUH - at least pretend that you're faking some emotion when you see a guy dying. I would give that soldier an Oscar. Seriously. Why? Just because. It's a crazy world, anyway, so what the hell...I've never seen anything worse in history of movies, maybe that's why...Then the FX. After effects, quickly generated effects that don't even follow the camera movement properly. Lol...Guns are plastic toys shooting laser beams that are not even close to 197? Dr. Who's. And the, the MUSIC! I can't even describe that annoying, almost funny, trumpet-like sound that plays while they are marching through the zombie-infected forest. It is so '40's and it fits in there just like the funny bluegrass tune fits into the original '2nd house on the left'. (that is the only comparison, though - '2nd house on the left' was a good movie). I don't know what else to say. I am sorry that I wasted 4 minutes of my life writing this review.