A comet crashes, the dead rise...I don't even want to go on to describe this. You know what to expect.
A tiny part of me doesn't want to hate this, only because there's a creative manner as to which the zombie apocalypse occurs. Here, it's alien parasites, but this time they are alien spores that want to meld with humans to create a new species. Also, they make your penis fall off and a birth sack replaces it.
That's creative, but the movie itself is still just another really bad Direct to DVD zombie flick, meaning you get the usual-clashing personalities, terrible attempts at humor (a mom who was a Pornstar, how funny. I'm just laughing right now) terrible acting, a generic as they come score, a zombie apocalypse apparently made up of 40 people, a lot of gore but nothing new or innovative, ham handed attempts at characterization-I could go on. Also, there's a religious fanatic character, and while I'm all for seeing religious bigots getting theirs, his character is so clichéd and such a forced attempt at social commentary and trying to come off as progressive that it even embarrassed a liberal like me. Finally, as a friend of mine said, the problem with so many of today's zombie movies is that nobody in these movies seems to have ever seen a zombie movie. I'm not asking for some kind of "Scream" type of self awareness, but come on people, act rationally in one of these for at least once.
Original twist aside, "Days of Darkness" is just another bad Direct to DVD zombie flick that's been done more than the film's ex Pornstar mother. It's a step up from shot on camcorder fair, but that's not exactly an accomplishment. You'd be better off never seeing this.
A tiny part of me doesn't want to hate this, only because there's a creative manner as to which the zombie apocalypse occurs. Here, it's alien parasites, but this time they are alien spores that want to meld with humans to create a new species. Also, they make your penis fall off and a birth sack replaces it.
That's creative, but the movie itself is still just another really bad Direct to DVD zombie flick, meaning you get the usual-clashing personalities, terrible attempts at humor (a mom who was a Pornstar, how funny. I'm just laughing right now) terrible acting, a generic as they come score, a zombie apocalypse apparently made up of 40 people, a lot of gore but nothing new or innovative, ham handed attempts at characterization-I could go on. Also, there's a religious fanatic character, and while I'm all for seeing religious bigots getting theirs, his character is so clichéd and such a forced attempt at social commentary and trying to come off as progressive that it even embarrassed a liberal like me. Finally, as a friend of mine said, the problem with so many of today's zombie movies is that nobody in these movies seems to have ever seen a zombie movie. I'm not asking for some kind of "Scream" type of self awareness, but come on people, act rationally in one of these for at least once.
Original twist aside, "Days of Darkness" is just another bad Direct to DVD zombie flick that's been done more than the film's ex Pornstar mother. It's a step up from shot on camcorder fair, but that's not exactly an accomplishment. You'd be better off never seeing this.