12 Most WTF Moments From Boy-Band Zombie Western ‘Dead 7’
What combination of things makes even less sense than a tornado made of sharks? How about a post-apocalyptic zombie Western made by and starring boy bands? Sheer absurd randomness (and its attendant clickbait) seems to be the well from which Syfy’s Dead 7 was sprung, the latest original movie from the network that has brought us such single-serving classics as Sharknado, Dinocroc vs. Supergator and Titanic II. Like many that have come before it, this genre mash-up walks the crooked line between knowing how bad it is and taking itself just a tad too seriously.
With a cast made up of members of late-Nineties locker pinup groups including the Backstreet Boys, ‘ ‘NSync, 98 Degrees and O-Town, you’d think there would be a sick dance-off in there somewhere, or at least a little falsetto crooning. Nope! Instead, we’re subjected to two hours of Nick Carter, Joey Fatone, AJ McLean & co. “acting” and “doing action scenes,” neither of which any of them have any skill at. Backstreet’s not quite back, all right?
As written by Carter (!) and Sawyer Perry, whose combined past screenwriting credits include — well, nothing — Dead 7 is a Frankensteined-together collection of diluted tropes that recall everything from The Magnificent Seven to The Walking Dead to Inglourious Basterds, only terrible. We took the liberty of plucking out the most groan-inducing morsels from the whole bloody mess. And yeah, that blood looks real fake.