Zombie films are on the march again. Some are worth watching. Some are not. This is not.
An interesting premise, explored quite effectively as a DVD extra on Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead (News footage, the web-cam fate of poor Andy the Gunsmith).
I'm sure with some serious investment, this could have been a great film, it was a great idea, after all.
Romero purist's will dig the fact that the zombie's are the lurching, staggering walking dead of old, not the all new singing, dancing, shrieking, screaming running dead popularised in the 28 / Romero re-makes (but unfortunately, that's where the similarities to Romero's works end). But to make a film about the dead/infected returning to life and attacking the living and play it 100% straight faced was a big mistake. I know the 28 films are 110% straight faced and technically different (infected NOT dead) but they succeed because the script was super-realistic.
Money should have been spent on better actors (uniformly awful), better special effects, and for the love of God, more extras! It's very hard to create the illusion of a Zombie holocaust with no more than a handful of Zombies in any given shot.
The plot tried desperately to be clever, chopping and changing scenes, but just confused me. Didn't get why the naked zombie chick was tied up (post or pre-mortem) and what happened to the actual journalist girl and what the scouse guy's motives were, either way it was a pretty schlocky end to an unsavoury film.
In short, the whole thing played like the best efforts of some enthusiastic, yet untalented sixth formers.
If you see this film lumbering towards you, do yourself a favour and aim for the head!
An interesting premise, explored quite effectively as a DVD extra on Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead (News footage, the web-cam fate of poor Andy the Gunsmith).
I'm sure with some serious investment, this could have been a great film, it was a great idea, after all.
Romero purist's will dig the fact that the zombie's are the lurching, staggering walking dead of old, not the all new singing, dancing, shrieking, screaming running dead popularised in the 28 / Romero re-makes (but unfortunately, that's where the similarities to Romero's works end). But to make a film about the dead/infected returning to life and attacking the living and play it 100% straight faced was a big mistake. I know the 28 films are 110% straight faced and technically different (infected NOT dead) but they succeed because the script was super-realistic.
Money should have been spent on better actors (uniformly awful), better special effects, and for the love of God, more extras! It's very hard to create the illusion of a Zombie holocaust with no more than a handful of Zombies in any given shot.
The plot tried desperately to be clever, chopping and changing scenes, but just confused me. Didn't get why the naked zombie chick was tied up (post or pre-mortem) and what happened to the actual journalist girl and what the scouse guy's motives were, either way it was a pretty schlocky end to an unsavoury film.
In short, the whole thing played like the best efforts of some enthusiastic, yet untalented sixth formers.
If you see this film lumbering towards you, do yourself a favour and aim for the head!