The Other Side

An excellent zombie movie, for intelligent viewers who like The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later, etc. In other words, zombie movies that recognize that human interaction make (or break) the movie.

Watched it on a lark for free on a popular media channel when I saw it got 2.5 out of 5 stars. The '1' & '2' star reviews here are so ludicrous I can only imagine they are trolls and rivals of the producers of this fine, fine, film.

Here we have your average campy horror movie: some bad acting, a zombie / "real biblical judgement type s**t" (to quote the movie) cliché, some over-the-top gore, and corny rock/techno that's badly cued and played for far too long. Some people cry way too much (Beware of Aunt Natalie--you may want to mute the scenes she's in) and some people yell the oddest things in situations that they wouldn't yell them in.

A majority of plot devices are rehashed and recycled from just about every movie ever made, but what made up for the poorly executed writing and dialogue was the interesting twist at the end. It was definitely not what I was expecting and in that regard I give the writers a bit of credit for being somewhat innovative; it also let me feel like watching the entire movie wasn't a COMPLETE waste of time. It was actually somewhat satisfying.

I wouldn't say go out of your way to watch it unless you've seen everything else in the horror genre on Prime and are running out of options. It's definitely not the worst movie I've seen (I think that esteemed position belongs to "A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell"), and you might get a chuckle at the campiness of it all. Worth a view if you're bored or have no other flicks to see!

So recently my husband and I signed up for Amazon Prime and that's how we found this movie.

It was quite possibly one of the WORST things I've ever seen. I'm not much of a horror fan, but my husband is a HUGE one so we settled on this for a Friday night.

I made it about 30 minutes in before I threw in the towel. The acting (if you can call it that) is atrocious. I mean not even one single redeemable quality in the cast. I certainly hope they all have something to fall back on because the profession of acting is not for them.

On top of the stiff acting (I'm not convinced they weren't reading their lines from a cue card) there was a horrible soundtrack. It was loud and oppressive and really took me out of any chance of engaging with this movie.

My husband finished it but I couldn't. I did walk in the room as the credits were rolling and he was fast asleep. It was just a horrible disappointment for us both.

I watched this movie because of its high score on IMDb and the positive reviews. Going on a 7.9 and fantastic reviews I expected to be blown away, which might be why the disappointment hit a little harder. It is a well-intended b-movie at best. Unfortunately the acting is stiff and overly forced at times, the story okay but still rugged around the edges, and the directing and editing were acceptable for a b-movie but still far from fluid.

All in all it is not a terrible movie, but be aware that it is a low budget, basically home made flick with quite unnatural feeling dialogue sometimes and somewhat forced acting and far from high-end. I guess if you don't mind that kind of thing and have some time to spare you can watch it and judge for yourself, but don't be fooled by the 7.9 ;)

Saw this screening at the HorrorHoundWeekend film festival. The main character was the best part, and he won Best Actor award for the festival which was appropriate. The rest of the cast was very mediocre at best. Maybe the parole officer was decent, but way too much bad acting or overacting for me.

The music was distracting, often too loud or just inappropriate for the scene, then cut off abruptly. Transitions from scene to scene were sometimes weak, too. The zombies were fast, which is fine since zombies are fictional and there are fast and slow zombie movies. They weren't too "zombified", but this is an indie film so that was fine.

Overall I was disappointed, but I did really like the twist at the end. That made up for a lot of the other failures of the movie. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but there was some good acting and the twist was fun, so if you like indie zombie movies you might enjoy.