Stumbling upon the 2022 movie "Earth Virus of the Dead" by random chance here in 2024, and seeing it was a zombie movie that I had never heard about, of course I opted to watch it. I am a huge fan of the zombie genre after all, despite the fact that the vast majority of contents released within it is low budget rubbish. And truth be told, given this movie's laughable title, I wasn't harboring any high hopes for this being a great movie.

Isn't it usually the case that when you see a movie that is written by, directed by and starring one and the same person, you just know that you are in for a garbage heap of a movie? It certainly held true for "Earth Virus of the Dead".

The storyline in the movie was textbook archetypical doomsday zombie outbreak, for better or worse. It was pretty straightforward, and while semi-watchable, it just wasn't a memorable or outstanding zombie movie experience. And it definitely is not going to make a lasting impression on me. And the part about North Koreans apparently invading the United States of America was just hilarious.

The acting performances in the movie were wooden, and especially young actor Chance Molina was devoid of any acting talent at all, delivering some of the most cringeworthy and forced dialogue I have witnessed in a long, long time. Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, and I can't claim that I was impressed with what I witnessed on the screen.

The movie is a string of toe-curling and cringeworthy dialogue delivered by emotionless performances and without any believable conviction. Not to mention that the writing of the dialogue left much to be desired. And the way that actor Geovanni Molina was half-whispering all of his dialogue just grew very tiring very fast.

The CGI effects in the movie were pretty bad, especially the scene with the launch of fighters from a hangar ship. It looked like something from a 1990s computer game.

The editing was pretty slobby, with some rather abrupt cuts throughout the movie in between different scenes.

The zombie make-up and effects were actually fair, probably the best thing in the movie. Now, hold on, because I am not saying it was great special effects. But for a movie of this caliber, then the effects were fair. I've seen far worse zombie effects in similar low budget zombie movies. So that counted for something, not much, but something.

This movie was definitely not worth the 73 minutes that it ran for. And if you enjoy zombie movies, do yourself a favor and give this movie a wide berth. Some of us suffered through this dumpster fire of a movie so you don't have to; you're very welcome.

"Earth Virus of the Dead" looked and felt like it was the home video project of the Molina family. Points for attempting to make a zombie movie, of course, but this movie was pretty lousy.

My rating of "Earth Virus of the Dead" lands on a very generous two out of ten stars, and that is mostly because of the zombie make-up.