I stumbled across this movie and although the artwork was a feast ripoff it had an interesting plot ( who isn't afraid of the dark) so I gave it a chance.
plot rundown, some people - where one has armed himself with not one but two guns.. still curious what his plans for that party were before the monsters came, might be an interesting movie hidden there somewhere- get trapped inside a building when a blackout happens and are stalked and killed by scorpion like monsters.
Running at a pleasingly short running time, by my accounts it didn't hit the 90 mins mark its a mixed bag.
I can agree with most of the other user comments in regards that it is a very low budget movie ( must be the only building in the city with around 10 people living in it) and speaking of the building; they used a very different building for the outside shots, clearly visible if you look at the windows. It had some crap acting and some CGI that makes a play station graphic look state of the art. And yes the story had some holes in it you could drive a truck through.. but..
The idea behind the movie is cool, the monsters are at least somewhat original and it has a minimal ( but still there unfortunately) amount of padding. So if you catch on to the idea behind this you can be forgiving. What makes it hard at times are the awful actors ( nobody makes anything of his part so you have a small dozen of cannon fodder entries) the plot holes and goofs that are so evident it becomes disturbing ( best example is the climatic..yeah well, I give them a break.. climb through the elevator shaft where it is clearly seen the camera is tilted and nobody is actually climbing.. kinda kills the scene). And if you try to convince even the most forgiving audience that there is an earthquake, please try to let the wine in the glass move too instead of just shaking the camera.
But all in all for a micro budgeted, main actor produced and funded end of the world movie you can get worse. At least it is a hell of a step up from your normal micro budgeted zombie, slasher, inbred, cannibal movie you normally encounter. You could see that the ideas were there, some skill was there but the budget was too tight. The ending however does make for a nice sequel in the veins of resident evil 2.
plot rundown, some people - where one has armed himself with not one but two guns.. still curious what his plans for that party were before the monsters came, might be an interesting movie hidden there somewhere- get trapped inside a building when a blackout happens and are stalked and killed by scorpion like monsters.
Running at a pleasingly short running time, by my accounts it didn't hit the 90 mins mark its a mixed bag.
I can agree with most of the other user comments in regards that it is a very low budget movie ( must be the only building in the city with around 10 people living in it) and speaking of the building; they used a very different building for the outside shots, clearly visible if you look at the windows. It had some crap acting and some CGI that makes a play station graphic look state of the art. And yes the story had some holes in it you could drive a truck through.. but..
The idea behind the movie is cool, the monsters are at least somewhat original and it has a minimal ( but still there unfortunately) amount of padding. So if you catch on to the idea behind this you can be forgiving. What makes it hard at times are the awful actors ( nobody makes anything of his part so you have a small dozen of cannon fodder entries) the plot holes and goofs that are so evident it becomes disturbing ( best example is the climatic..yeah well, I give them a break.. climb through the elevator shaft where it is clearly seen the camera is tilted and nobody is actually climbing.. kinda kills the scene). And if you try to convince even the most forgiving audience that there is an earthquake, please try to let the wine in the glass move too instead of just shaking the camera.
But all in all for a micro budgeted, main actor produced and funded end of the world movie you can get worse. At least it is a hell of a step up from your normal micro budgeted zombie, slasher, inbred, cannibal movie you normally encounter. You could see that the ideas were there, some skill was there but the budget was too tight. The ending however does make for a nice sequel in the veins of resident evil 2.