"Maybe I'm being too kind to a movie that (it turns out) was written in one week, but even if I didn't know anything about [director] Brett Leonard coming into it, I'd still feel his direction brings a lot to what could have been a standard zombie outing. Besides an expert handling of the usual horror movie techniques – panning down to reveal a sinister person, things popping up subtly just outside the frame of tracking shots – Leonard really thinks about his shots and gives them epic, big budget movie treatment. And he is not afraid of the wide-angle lens. The Dead Pit is basically Brett Leonard's take on a Nightmare on Elm Street style horror film, which is a good pairing" - John Cribbs, The Pink Smoke