Nerds That Geek Movie Review: ‘The Dead and the Damned’

Written by Scott Edwards

Sometimes you need to take a step back and reflect on your roots.  If you are like me, you have been working nonstop since you were sixteen and still not looking to stop yet.  Take a break and look back over everything that you have done. There could be some bad things there, but I would hope that most of it is good.  Do not dwell on the bad things at all, they are life experiences and now you know better than to do it again, I would hope at least.

Mortimer is the best bounty hunter in the territory, and he does not care who knows it. Being able to collect on his last bounty, he is informed that there is another high roller on his heels. Just needing money, Mortimer does not care about the danger that his bounties can cause, he will take care of it all the same. With a thousand dollars on the line for his next bounty, Mortimer is ready to take down Brother Wolf who is holed up outside of Jamestown, but he has no idea what he is getting himself into.

Arriving in town, Mortimer is able to gain the whereabouts of Brother Wolf and is ready to make his trek up into the hills, but being stopped beforehand, Mortimer purchases himself a lady. Rhiannon is no whore; she is a lady to marry and she will not let Mortimer do anything unpleasant to her. Little does she know that she is about to be made bait for Mortimer’s little trap to smoke out his Indian bounty. Mortimer is resourceful and is able to capture Brother Wolf with relative ease, but his competitor is looking to collect on the bounty as well and The German opens fire on the unsuspecting group.

In town, two miners bring something that nobody has ever seen before onto the main street. Trying to get inside of the rock to see what is causing it to glow green, the meteor is cracked open, releasing spores all over the town and changing everyone into flesh craving zombies. As Mortimer and his now friend Brother Wolf and Rhiannon quickly find out, this is not a contained incident and they will need to rely on each other to make it out of town again. Only knowing that taking out the head of the opponent can kill them for sure, the group needs to find more supplies than they have to make it out of town.

If you are in need of a western zombie movie, I would have a hard time pushing you in another direction. Also named Cowboys vs. Zombies, this movie caught my eye a while back and I am a little bit upset I did not get it then. This was just the movie that I needed to end a weekend watching since it is what it is and makes me laugh just a little too hard when I should not. Don’t go in thinking that this is something that it is not, it is a couple of survivors killing zombies and even though it might not best movie ever made, I challenge you to find another storyline like this one. Stay Scared.

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