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"Knight of the Dead" was bad, no doubt about it. And you have that sense of impending boredom and doom lurking about you right from the very start.

The storyline in the movie was next to non-existing, and it was weak at best. And the movie wasn't really helped much along by having one-dimensional characters that lacked personalities and any level of worth to make you care the least bit about them.

"Knight of the Dead" is filmed in very dull and earth-tone colors, which was kind of interesting enough, as it did help to paste the image of a bleak and gloomy world set in the middle ages where zombies roam around the countryside. However, it just got to much in overall, because you sit there and want to see more colors in the movie eventually.

One of the better things in the movie was the the costumes. They looked nice enough and had some fairly interesting and nice touches to them.

The acting in the movie was adequate. Mind you, it wasn't mind-boggling, award-winning or outstanding in any memorable way. But people did good enough with the jobs they were giving. They were just fighting an uphill battle against a storyline with virtually no proper plot or meaning whatsoever.

There is a little bit of gore throughout the movie, but hardly enough to satisfy gore-hounds and fans of the zombie genre. And it is most definitely not enough to make up for the ghastly lack of storyline.

You would think that zombies in the middle ages would make for a good setting, and you would be right about it, but not everything that glitters is gold, and this movie sure wasn't that! "Knight of the Dead" is boring and rather pointless. The movie never really got up in pace, but just trotted straight ahead in a dull pace, never working up any kind of excitement or scares.

A priest has to get The Holy Grail across a valley during the Black Plague. The plague is a horde of medieval zombies.

This thing had awesome locations, and a potentially cool idea, but then screwed it all up. The first annoying factor is the grey dull tinge they give to the picture. I know they want to create a mood but it just makes people think their TV is on the fritz.

The acting wasn't bad, the effects on the other hand were CGI crap. Another thing that ticked me off was they had to kill them by removing the head, or by damaging the brain. All through the film they show countless little gut stabs that finish off these zombies. So what gives? Maybe it was a time issue or continuity.

Not very good at all. You don't really care what happens after about half of an hour.

I should start by saying I am a big fan of Zombie and Post-Apocaliptic movies, and when I heard about this one, it sparked my curiosity.

I read a review here saying it was a refreshing movie, different style than the million zombie titles made in the recent years.

It was a total disappointment...

Yes, the setting was different from what we usually see in zombie movies, but the story is quite weak, the acting is as good as the story and there is no explanation or a proper ending.

The cinematography is good enough and there is little CGI, which could be a good thing seeing the abuse of it in the new movies, but still, doesn't add up to being a good movie.

I wouldn't recommend it.

There are many bad movies out there, but most have a disappointing, cliché setup to start with. This movie actually had the concept going for it. So cautious though I am with any title -of the dead, I did decide to give it a shot. Knights, the plague, zombies... works for computer games so why not a movie right?

Wrong... I should have known better, I really should have. The acting is bad and cliché at best, special effects are absent so basically zombies are recognizable by either white faces or bandages. The whole movie is shown in a nearly colorless scheme, which though it works for some movies here just added to the overall feel of "low budget". The plot plays out exactly as you expect including all possible obligatory story progression.

I write this 'review' just because I would have wanted a warning before I pressed play this morning, so there you are.

What a load of rubbish - Worst film this year ARGHHH ORRGGH by a mile

My partner fell asleep after 2 minutes and woke up at the end. Did i miss anything she said ? - NO not really, in fact not at all.

Some movies are so bad they become good - this movie is so bad it will just go on getting worse for ever

Plot - (what do zombies say again ?) What plot ? Acting - ORRRR ARGGGGG ERRRRRR - lets all run, - what acting ? Budget - how on earth did they get one ? ORRRR ARGGGGG ERRRRRR Even the scenery didn't bother to turn up. Most films are in colour , some black and white , there's a very good reason why 50 shades are grey aren't popular :)

For those of you really interested here's the plot

Hello i've come to collect the Holy grail - oh all right here it is - please leave my pizza over there Thanks,- bye then - you can die now (even though you looked fine when we arrived) Must have been the anchovies ! and it just gets better and better ORRRR ARGGGGG ERRRRRR.

Maybe the original Welsh version was better LLLORRR LLLARGGG LLERRR.

If you asked a bunch of 5 year old kids to make a zombie movie - they'd do better - a lot better. I wouldn't even use this movie as a place to put my mug of coffee on !

This was just so ridiculously dull. I couldn't even pay attention. The characters were boring, the plot was boring & the effects were awful. Even by low budget standards. I wouldn't recommend this.

I can't even think of anything to fill in the 10 line minimum. Thoroughly disappointing movie. Don't waste your time. The sex scene was even disappointing & that's a difficult feat to achieve.

Still not 10 lines. Well I can talk for England usually so the fact that I can't write a 10 line review says it all.

Boring, dull, time wasting crap.

1/10

I rarely write movie reviews, but I mostly do when I feel that a movie is either unnecessarily praised, or excessively denigrated. "Knight of the dead" is the latest. Seriously, this movie was rated worse than "Sharktopus" on IMDb?!?

This is your typical B-movie way of making movies. Low-budget, actors you never heard of, cheesy and cheap FX... But this movie is really positively surprising. Low-budget, that's for sure, but there is still a guaranteed minimum of gore (with mutilations, guts, blood, you know the drill). Also, the landscape is absolutely stunning. You never get bored watching this 1h18min movie, mostly filled with bandit raids or zombie attacks. And the zombie makeup is pretty well-made: not at all times, but it does the job.

Of course, there is some bad CGI from time to time (creating full hordes of zombies, or adding blood), but it's far from being REALLY annoying, and believe me, I HATE CGI. That is still a bit of a shame.

All in all, what can be said about KOFD? Cheap b-movie. Crazy concept. But still fast-paced, gory and fun. Recommended for anyone into zombie movies.

With the exception of some lovely Snowdonia locations and a couple of decent costumes, while not the worst zombie movie out there(Vampegeddon, Zombie Night and Dead Men Walking for examples are far worse) Knight of the Dead is a disaster. The special effects are wisely sparsely used but that wasn't an excuse for them to be as cheap as they were- yes even for the budget the movie had, they looked hastily slapped together and made-at-last-minute quality. The gore and decapitations looked silly and felt excessive at times, and there is no better news about the photography and lighting, which takes bleak to extremes to the extent some of the action is not easy to see and there is the very odd effect of the zombies' heads looking like they were floating like balloons. Aside from a couple of the costumes(not all, others did look fancy-dress remains), there was very little sense of the medieval atmosphere or atmosphere in general. The script certainly sounds like a rough draft and has so much cheese it makes the eyes roll. Again it doesn't very little like how medieval speak, a lot of it is very bad modern talk that fails to make sense. The characters are basically archetypes lacking in any kind of personality and development, plus they annoy with how nonsensical a lot of their actions are, and the acting is very going-through-the-motions and mannequin-like from the whole cast with no spontaneity or enthusiasm whatsoever. The worst thing to me was the story, which is so thin it's barely there and it's made worse by a pace that begs for a steroid shot of a very large dosage, some slower-paced scenes barely even move. The scenes with the zombies are very under-populated, the horror is cheaply done and predictable that they are no scares, the movie is far too dull to be fun and it is difficult to be excited when everything just seems so half-hearted. To me as well, the medieval vibe and the use of zombies had a very two different movies feel which was really jarring. To conclude, not the worst zombie movie out there but apart from two halfway-decent things is a disaster. 2/10 Bethany Cox

KNIGHT OF THE DEAD (2013) is another extremely cheap British zombie film with a twist: a medieval setting! Our protagonists are a group of knights who have their hands full transporting the mythical Holy Grail through a land ravaged by the black death when they find themselves set upon by a zombie horde. Although, given the lack of money here, it's more like a few shambling extras.

Shot in and around Snowdonia and a ruined castle, this outdoorsy adventure film is cheap through and through and suffers from the usual gamut of bad acting, non-existent scripting and poor pacing. There's more action than horror but the fight choreography is bad and the only time I was impressed was when one of the stars does a random back flip. Not much gore either, just a few severed heads rolling about and the usual bitings. If you want to see historical zombies done properly, I recommend the Korean show KINGDOM.

This one took me for a surprise - I was expecting to laugh and roll my eyes throughout watching it but instead I became engrossed in the story and that was a pleasant surprise for me. I actually liked the film.

I do wish the "Z" zombies would have been a little less at times and a little better than they were BUT it didn't take away from the actual story-line - and I know it is a "B" film (not a lot of money to make it so the "Z" zombies were easily overlooked by me in favor of the tale).

I was routing for the Priest since the beginning... and he is the main/core character. The one guy who seemed very angry at the witch (the warrior) I thought would make it close or to the very end but that didn't happen. I wasn't sure about the other men in the group if some could make it out of there alive!! I'm not a big fan of zombies (only a small handful of zombie films I actually like) - but this zombie/knight film gave me another zombie flick I can actually enjoy watching. The dark gray, bleak atmosphere and a band of men with a goal did something for me - I enjoyed the watch.

8.5/10

I downloaded the movie: nearly 7 gigabyte of boring material. I went through some scenes which spoke for themselves: bad acting, unrealistic shoots. What bothered me too was at some point I see a guy and a woman making out and you can see a PIERCING through her left nipple!!! In that time period? I don't believe it was intentional. Didn't the makers of the movie have the time to let her take at least that thing out? The first thing though that bothered me was the lack of colors in the movie. That's why I started scrolling through the movie, to see if there were any colors later on. It turned from gray to dark! Then there was the hunt in a scenery full of rocks. It seemed to go on for ever and it was just a way to make the movie as cheap as possible. I'm not going to watch the full movie. I will delete it from my hard-drive and put the title of the list of movies never to be watched.

I agree 100% with Sjaak Schulteis' review. This movie's appalling, in spite of a promising pitch: the Holy Grail moving through a zombie-filled valley of the shadows of death in the hands of fearsome knights? The plot could have been a killer. Alas! What a disaster. The lack of color, terrible acting, poor shooting (not even giving justice to the beauty of the surrounding landscape...), poor assembling and editing, and this overall, lingering, "this is a (dead-)serious movie so us guys, actors, need to act tough and avoid any hint of humor" feeling just got me worked up in the end, struggling to watch the whole atrocity. I did, eventually, but there was no redeeming for this lazy movie. Actors behave like they are wondering why they're on the set. The storyline never makes it to cruise speed. There is no suspense or challenge of any kind that makes it worth watching it to the end. A total collapse.

Some blurays in my collection I am not proud of. Occasionally you have to make three for a quid at the charity shop, so you add one that otherwise you'd never have gone for. "Knight of the Dead" is one such film, a woefully cheap British historical horror that is unbelievably dull.

A group of crusading Knights, led by a monk, attempt to return home with the Holy Grail, though are tracked and hunted by those formally in its possession. As they attempt to cross a fenland area, they are attacked by Zombies taken by the Black Death, or something - I dunno. It was incredibly boring.

Look. I'm going to show a reasonable level of restraint here because, whilst the film is not good, I also don't imagine there was much budget to utilise. So, whilst the actors are generally quite poor, they are mostly stunt performers, or bit part actors, who were able to be in Snowdonia on the day in question. Should I really be attacking the film for that? There's a haphazard regard for continuity, cinematography or sound design - but again, those things cost time and money so it's understandable that they were sacrificed.

I'm less willing to be forgiving of some of the writing issues though, as decent characterisation doesn't necessarily cost more, nor does a compelling story and this has neither of those either. There are occasionally half decent CGI moments, but most of the fighting is terrible and the practical effects are again hampered by those budgetary issues.

Maybe it's that the practicalities couldn't match the ambition, maybe it's that they were making it up as they went along with whatever was available to them. Either way, I can't begin to argue that it's not rubbish - but it's real crime is how dull it makes it what should be schlocky fun.

The monsters were terrible, the special effects were terrible, the characters were terrible and the plot was...terrible. One scene had a priest and a "Witch" they'd captured not twenty minutes previously have sex for absolutely no reason other than to fit in some expected nudity for the male teenage audience. Some of the action scenes were at the very best passable for a low budget flick but that's the most praise I'll give it.

1/10: Music, story and cinematography were all awful - one to miss.

A spry warrior priest and his stalwart band of capable knights undertake a mysterious, increasingly bloody quest in a forbidding valley of plague ridden zombies. While low budget, hampered by rudimentary FX, the spectacular Snowdonian exteriors provide a doomily evocative backdrop to the rain-lashed medieval slaughter. The grisly concept is, perhaps, better than its execution, yet the lively characters prove compelling, their rousing adventuring maintained my interest. At its very best, Knight Of The Dead often recalled scary kids telly from the late 70s, early 80s, at its worst, it's every bit as cheesy as the unlovely artwork suggests it might be. I feel that my idol Mahnfahrt Panzerflesh would have approved.

I don't understand all the bad reviews, I actually liked this movie.

The FX are cheesy but it's a B movie.

The sword fighting scenes are well choreographed.

The bleak look of this film fits the story.

The camera work is above average.

And the soundtrack is amazing for a film on a proper surround setup, my ears were pleasantly surprised.

This movie is amazing the acting, the effects, the story. Screw the shining screw nightmare on elm street, screw Shaun of the dead, screw the ring, screw paranormal activity, screw Friday the 13th and screw the evil dead. This movie makes these movies look like crap!!!!!! This movie made my day I bought it on DVD for a euro well worth it and went home watched it and I was amazed, it blew my mind. It scared me for life. If you love horror movies you will love this movie I watched it twice in one day and at least ten times in a week. Go watch this movie right now its so good you will thank me and you are welcome. Good luck and good night!

Pretty good. Never seen Zombies in middle ages film. Where they filmed really fitted the film. Costumes all really convincing. Didn't like ending. Never showed if artifact reached final place that's why only eight.