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I am sewer surfing on the stinky crest of a TUBI wave this weekend, with Dark Island tomorrow and this the 2010 Defiled.

OK, let me give you the premise and we shall take it from there. It is a 100 minute long silent movie inasmuch as the characters do not speak. The humans do not speak at all and the zombies each have a single noise, be it a yar, a grunt, or a high pitched eee.

Yar, his name is the sound he makes, much like Gnar from Delamorte Delamore, (1994) has gotten one of this 3 zombie friends pregnant. But, after an ill-advised feast of a dead camper that poisons the other zombies to death, including the mother, Yar must first, and I never thought I would ever write this, perform a C-section with a butcher's hook, before looking after his zombie baby.

He saves a non verbal human female from two other zombies and now has a nanny for his zombie baby. And then there is a lot of walking. Walking to the woods. Walking to a farmhouse. Walking along train tracks. Walking through fields. Walking to a factory complex. Walking... walking... zzzzzz.

But then, realising they are all poisoned, and wanting to save his baby, they head to find the human scientists and soldiers for help.

So, a black and white silent movie told from the zombie perspective? Sounds interesting or shit? Well, to be fair it is both. Conceptually it is a good idea, but it is painfully repetitive and slow.

Artsy for the sake of it? Or artsy because of budget and talent? Who can say. It was unique. I have seen hundreds of zombie movies and this was pretty unique. Good? Hm. Recommendable? Only for the uniqueness of it. A 2010 silent zombie movie.

4/10 an oddity.