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  DEAD RISING: ENDGAME (2016) USA 1hr 36mins Director: Pat Williams "Since when do Z's move that fast!!" - Garth "The virus will wipe us all out." - Dr. Rand DEAD RISING: ENDGAME (2016) is a direct sequel to  DEAD RISING: WATCHTOWER (2015) and is again set in between DEAD RISING 2 & 3 in terms of the video game but I'm really not sure of it's relevance to the video games this time around. There certainly isn't that style of the video game shooter camera POV's like there was in the first one at all. It does however follow on WATCHTOWERs story, so reporter Chase Carter (Jesse Metcalfe) is back and is as determined as ever. Sneaking around the ruins of East Mission trying to uncover more plans by corrupt military leader, General Lyons (Dennis Haysbert). This time Chase has stumbled upon some kind of human trafficking ring that involves human test subjects being given to mad scientist Dr. Rand (Billy Zane) who as well as working on a cure is als

  DEAD RISING: WATCHTOWER (2015)  USA 1hr 58mins  Director: Zach Lipovsky "Only an idiot wants to see a zombie" - Crystal O'Rourke "How much hope do you have? You're basically fucked!" - Frank West I am not much of a gamer myself but I am aware of the DEAD RISING games and I appreciate this movies nods to them and the video game style camera work. It's helpful to know that you don't need to have much knowledge about the games to get what is going on in the movie. Having done a bit of research though I did find out that DEAD RISING: WATCHTOWER (2015) is set in between games 2 & 3 in terms of timeline. It follows journalist Chase Carter (Jesse Metcalfe) and his camera woman Jordan (Keegan Connor Tracy) as they unwittingly uncover a major government/military conspiracy against the citizens of East Mission, Oregon, whilst filming what seemed at first to be a fairly normal day post numerous zombie apocalypses. Filming at an evacuation point as reports