The Dead(2010)

I was very excited to hear this movie was coming out on February 14, 2012(awwwww romance at its finest).  I was quick to order it from Amazon and, heck, even paid for the 2 day delivery..
Wow!  I mean, classic zombie movie, where have you been all my life--wow.  It's obvious I loved this movie, but why?  Think, classic zombies.  Not the fast, rabid, how can they make their rigor mortise limbs move faster than Kid Flash, zombies.  Not zombies that climb walls(Day of the Dead 2008), or Zombies that seem superhuman(Dawn Of The Dead 2004).
No!  This is the slow, quiet, creeping in the shadows, shuffling, vacant, muffled moan, zombies that bite your hand while blindly feeling around for the light switch, gaaaah!!
The movie is a nicely packaged, low budget, highly atmospheric film from a group of relatively unknowns, The Ford Brothers.
The Synopsis:
When the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy (ROB FREEMAN) emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living.

On the run in a hostile and inhospitable parched landscape, where sudden death lurks around every sun-burnished corner, Murphy has to use his wits and ingenuity if he is to get home alive to his family.

When Murphys path clashes with that of Sergeant Daniel Dembele (PRINCE DAVID OSEI), whose village has been torn apart by the reanimated dead, they join forces.

The two desperate men from two very different cultures fight side by side to survive across the incredible vistas of Africa as the world succumbs to the deadliest of viruses.(Taken from: thedeaduk.webeden.co.uk/#/synopsis/4554841749)

In one of my favorite Zombie books, World War Z,the book touches on some of the global themes of a worldwide zombie pandemic.  Of my cherished moments from the book, are the selections about Africa and the Middle East, so I was happy to see something with the backdrop of the unrelenting African landscape.

When our hero seeks the Sahara desert for salvation from the countless shambling(and often barefoot) walking dead, you know things have gotten bad.

Beautiful, honest, straight-forward, grainy(shot in 35mm), and full of understated art of film--amid an endless sea of low budget zombie saturation to hit the market the last two years, this was a dying breath of fresh air.  Now, one of my favorite zombie movies of all time.