With its release delayed owing to the pandemic, this rather routine Spanish wartime zombie flick sees our cocky anti-hero and his weak side-kick reprieved from military execution to undertake a dangerous delivery mission. With the Spanish Civil War providing a different setting for what is a fairly standard zombie film, it provides an effective backdrop and mechanism for a band of opposing/different survivors to have to work together, allowing brief ruminations on war and religion to be randomly thrown into the mix. The film tries hard to hit the right blend of comedy and horror but does not quite manage it, resulting in a lot of obvious melodrama and crass humour that falls flat, standard neck-chewing and head-kill-shots aplenty and an oddly out-of-place contemporary-sounding score. Valley Of the Dead is basic and efficient (with a couple of successful jump scares) but predictable, right down to the unnecessary sequel-baiting mid-credits shot.
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