Backstreet's Back, Alright! Nick Carter Recruits 90s Popstars Against Zombie Onslaught In 'Dead 7'

  • 23 March 2016

If a horde of zombies attacked your town, who would you have thought would be most likely to come to your rescue? The Backstreet Boys probably don't make it on to your list, but this Spring such unlikely heroes will be saving the world from the undead in 'Dead 7'.

Nick Carter plays a zombie-killing gunslinger in 'Dead 7'

From the network that brought us 'Sharknado' and 'Star Runners', Syfy will be launching 'Dead 7' this April featuring a number of familiar faces from a variety of 90s boybands including Backstreet Boys, *Nsync, 98 Degrees and O-Town. It's a zombie Western original movie starring Backstreet Boys' Nick Carter as well as his wife Lauren Kitt-Carter, which sees an unlikely hero named Jack band together the with the local outlaws to rid their small town of a deadly plague of brain-eating, re-animated corpses.

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Watch the trailer for 'Dead 7' here:

Carter's bandmates AJ McLean and Howie Dorough have also made it into the cast, with Jeff Timmons of 98 Degrees, Joey Fatone and Chris Kirkpatrick from *Nsync, as well as the re-united O-Town bandmembers Erik-Michael Estrada, Trevor Penick, Jacob Underwood and Dan Miller.

Image caption Dead 7 hits Syfy on April 1st