Perfectly adorable

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Here's a horror movie that was made in such a way that the term "low-budget" would not give you the idea. It looks like it was literally made with stuff they had around the house. If you had to put a price tag on your own home movies, that's probably comparable to what it took to make this.The story follows a college student who is forced out of her dorm due to lack of funds. She moves into the low income dorm, which looks like an abandoned tenement. The next day in class, the professor is leading a discussion on cultural views towards death, and mentions that he brought back a vial of zombie blood from Haiti. During the discussion, the main character and her friend laugh at another classmate, the queen bee campus snob Claire. Claire vows revenge and decides to steal the zombie blood and infect the girls. We also find out that the professor was sleeping with a student and tested the zombie blood on her when she threatened to go public with the affair. The zombie girlfriend has been living in the condemned housing unit, along with a few other infected students, hence the title.Clair ends up getting the vial and infecting the main character. However, unlike the scene in which we saw the professor's mistress get infected (it took ten seconds for her to transform into a zombie), Sarah remains human, but craves raw meat. Eventually, she attacks and eats others, and slowly, by the end has become a full zombie. In the final scene, she is shot and presumably killed while her friend watches in horror (it was shown in an unbroken shot on a live newscast, I guess). As other reviewers have pointed out, one of the obvious distractions of this movie is that characters were filmed at different times with different equipment, then edited together. So you get a shot of Claire delivering a line with plenty of background noise, then a retort from another character with an entirely different audio quality, responding in a cadence that doesn't remotely resemble an actual conversation. I should also mention that the actress playing Claire had to be the most vacant human being you could imagine, both in terms of her delivery, and her facial and physical expressions. Which only made it more watchable, ironically.Most of these flaws didn't bother me. I found it so inept that it was fascinating to watch, for the most part. There were some stretches that were slow, but for the most part I was pretty entertained (in the unintentionally bad-movie sort of way). Also, there were some songs on the soundtrack that were actually really good, enough so that I wish I could find them to download. I'm not that interested in zombies or gore, so I didn't really care about the shortcomings that most genre fans would complain of. Definitely very, very badly done, but I enjoyed the mess.

This film is an oddity, it's shot on different film stocks(actually video formats). It was clearly expanded with new unrelated scenes edited into its' runtime. More gore and nudity seemed to have been spliced in. The scenes that include Tiffany Shepis, have a much darker tone then when our heroines are together. The acting is all over the board, ranging from awful to quirky. What made this movie for me however is not the movie itself. The film ends at roughly 65 minutes, but there is a 7 min scene following the initial credits, that actually had me burst out laughing, and what was so surprising was that it was supposed to be funny! This felt like a student film and it probably started as one. I wouldn't recommend this to everyone, but there does seem to be some heart in it.

Synopsis: Clare (Jackey Hall) and Julie (Andrea Ownbey), the campus snobs of Arkham University, are attempting to seek their own brand of revenge on goth girl Sarah (Ciara Richards) and her friend Allison (Adrianna Eder). When the campus is overrun by zombies, the snobs see a good opportunity to get back at their black-clad enemies. Unfortunately, things may not go as smoothly as Clare & Julie want and they might be the zombies' prey instead. . .Review: This is about as bad as a zombie flick can get these days. Other than the attractive females that like to take their clothes off, there isn't a single positive element to this stinkfest. It's not funny, it's not scary, it's just horrible. The story, if there is one, makes little sense at all. The script (if there actually was one and it wasn't just a bunch of idiots running around speaking in 90s clichés) is offensively bad, and it's only worsened by sincerely THE worst acting I've ever seen in my life (no exaggeration). I mean, these people make walking look difficult. They make Keanu Reeves look like Laurence Olivier. As the film progresses to the actual 'zombie invasion' (which, strangely, wasn't the first ten minutes when zombies were wandering all over campus), it only gets worse and worse. The direction during 'action' (for lack of a better word) scenes is almost unwatchable. Hell, even during the still shots, the camera-work is pathetic. By the end, it's a grueling experience to get through and I, with my very high tolerance for total crap, barely made it through. This is, without a doubt, one of the worst films I have ever seen and will probably ever see. Avoid at all costs.Obligatory Zombie Elements:Cause of Outbreak: The spread of blood of a zombie brought back to the states by some idiot professor. . . or something.Zombie Characteristics: They're mostly slow, shambling, etc., except for the occasional one with superhuman strength and kung fu abilities.Zombie Effects: Apparently powdered sugar and ketchup = Zombie faces. Not even remotely terrifying or realistic.Violence/Gore: There may be quite a bit of zombie violence, but the gore is just ridiculously bad and some of the worst I've ever seen. If strawberry syrup and Fruit Roll-Ups are disgusting gore to you, then this is the film for you.Sex/Nudity: The film spends the first ten or so minutes acting like softcore porn, but that ends abruptly and the rest of the film is spent mostly clothed.- - Final Verdict: 1/10. Truly, truly painful.Recommended? I would not wish this curse upon anyone.-AP3-

I'm a fan of Jackey Hall's and loved her in DORM OF THE DEAD. She plays a bitchy college girl who ends up turning her worst enemy into a zombie. If you like down and dirty zombie flicks, DORM OF THE DEAD will fit the bill! The two other girls in this movie I liked are Tiffany Shepis and Ciara Richards. Tiffany is pretty well known - I have seen her before in THE HAZING, SCARECROW, the trailer for HOMESIC and TED BUNCY. Ciara is a new actress but she actually had the biggest role in DORM OF THE DEAD. She plays a goth girl who ends up being turned into a zombie by Jackey. Also the music in DORM OF THE DEAD is incredible - sounds like someone was trying to copy Rob Zombie but doing a good job of it.