Flight of the Living Dead (2007) poster
2007 · horror · spy · sports · zombie

Flight of the Living Dead

Directed by Scott Thomas1h 29m2007
ElsewhereIMDb5.110kRT89%
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • extreme
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / spy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container.

Our read · Flight of the Living Dead (2007) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · spy · sports entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want zero-pretense zombies loose on a transatlantic red-eye tonight.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 7attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightSkip if cheap plane-horror gore and wooden acting will grate on you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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