This movie had a lot going against it from the beginning. The title is reminiscent of the Night of the Living Dead with a plot like Undead Snakes on a Plane put me off at once. I was expecting the stereotypical hardass black guy yelling, “I hate these mother $%#!ing zombies on this mother $#@!ing plane.”

As much as I hate being wrong, I have to admit this movie was actually mildly entertaining and kept my attention. You would think a plane full of zombies would be like a bunch of fat people at a smorgasbord, but the writers were able to draw out the action by barricading survivors behind luggage and delving into the bowels of the plane. Unoriginal I know, but what do you expect from “Flight of the Living Dead.”

The first thing this movie had going for it was star power. Alright, maybe star power is too strong of a word. It’s more like, “Didn’t we see that guy in that one movie” power. In a disappointingly short part, was Dale Midkiff. You might know him as the father in the original “Stephen King’s Pet Cemetery,” but those on the nerdlist will know him as Darien Lambert the time traveling cop tracking down Mordecai Sahmbi with the help of his hot librarian looking credit card hologram in Time Trax.

Comic relief is provided by Kevin J. O’Connor. Yes, you have heard of him. Anyone who has seen “The Mummy” will recognize him as Benny the cowardly guy who buddies up to the Mummy or if you want to trace back his horror roots as Phillip Swann in “Clive Barker’s Lord of Illusion. You women out there will know him as Daryl Hannah’s husband in “Steel Magnolias.” A movie that I will refuse to admit publicly to ever seeing. There are at least three more people of relative fame in the movie, but I’ll let you figure them out yourself.

The plot, believe it or not, is pretty simple. A plane with a police officer, sky marshal, golf pro, nun, your standard horny obnoxious teens and scientists is taken by storm when during turbulence a cryogenically frozen corpse with, what else, a virus is reanimated and goes on a feeding frenzy.

The movie should never have actually started because the corpse was being guarded by a large man armed with a machine gun and biohazard suit. Yet somehow, she bests him and one-by-one the zombie ranks begin to grow. The scariest part is the zombies were all booked coach and were adamant about getting bumped up to business class. Selfish bastards, damn them.

Needless to day, most everyone gets eaten and turned into a zombie. The U.S. government decides to stop an undead outbreak by blowing up the plane. I guess they didn’t think spreading hundreds of undead zombie parts over a several mile radius would be damaging to the environment.

The movie itself was pretty good and thankfully did not take itself too seriously. It’s definitely worth the rent and who knew Samsonite luggage could hold back hoards of zombies. Good to know.

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