Dead Meat

There is an Irish movie that is making another circuit among zombie lovers.

“Dead Meat” was first issued in 2004 and starred Marian Araujo (“3 Crosses”) as the film’s heroine and her boy friend Martin, played by David Ryan.

The couple are driving down an old Irish road while on vacation and suddenly Martin runs over a man in the road killing him instantly. While Martin checks on the victim, Arujo’s character, named Helena runs to a nearby house for help. The victim comes back to life and bites Martin giving him a new and strange disease that turns him into a flesh-devouring, brain-craving zombie.

In the village Helena realizes the whole area is infested with zombies and fleeing back to Martin she soon realizes that he too is now becoming one of them.

In her flight to safety she meets a gravedigger named Desmond (David Muyllaert) and together they cross the countryside searching for a safe place, but everywhere they go the disease is turning people into the living dead.

“Dead Meat” was written and directed by Conor McMahon (“Braineater,” “The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish”). It co-stars Eoin Whelan and Amy Redmond. The film is available on DVD and can also be had through Netflix.

We learn one very important lesson from this movie and these are words to live by: