The Dead 2 - India

A notch less dark, a notch less interesting, a notch less scary. You have to wait long for any action scene and when it finally comes, the director turns on the slow-mo. The relocation to India seems utterly pointless – the first one was greatly helped by its untraditional setting in Africa, which the creators used with skill, but the sequel lacks any proper use of the Indian setting, and the poetics are too similar to the first one. Bugger! If there’s a zombie outbreak in a poor and overpopulated city of an overpopulated country, what I expect is chaos, filth and hordes of zombies everywhere. But instead of that, the only thing pointing to the Indian location are the terrible Indian actors (you almost expect them to start dancing at any moment). But not to be only critical, there are some visually nice scenes and well executed atmospheric sequences here and there, but overall it’s an uninteresting and weaker copy of something we’ve already seen and, therefore, a pointless sequel. (06.09.2014)

The Dead 2: India is not an excellent zombie horror film; there's too much empty space where not much happens. However, the creators stay true to the spirit of the previous film and focus primarily on the story rather than the zombies themselves. There is gore, but it is not excessive. The Dead 2: maintains a human perspective and focuses on the characters, which ultimately leads to the horror element being diminished in the story. But it remains a good film. (20.07.2015)