Days of Darkness

a couple return from their overnight romantic mountain getaway to discover the world overrun by zombies. they are rescued and find themselves holed up on a mountaintop army base (supposedly a deserted NORAD base but it looks suspiciously like a cell phone tower) among a diverse group of predictably argumentative survivors, including a religious nut, an over the top macho farmer, a car salesman, a marine and a porn star & her daughter. suddenly, the virgin girlfriend is pregnant. what might aliens and the mysterious comet have to with all of this? and wow, what's in herbert's pants? also, see if you can spot the not-so-subtle homage to "day of the dead". for a low-budget effort, it held my interest - it has a few good moments and the acting is mostly decent.

I took this movie for New Year party and I think I couldn't make a better choice. I am quite used to watching bad movies (hey, I do my major on 50s sci-fi films), but there's always a movie that sets a new low. A friend of mine made something very similar for like 200 bucks, this stinker cost about 10 000x more money. The only three nice things about this movie are the lighting, Sabrina Gennarino and the fact it really makes you laugh out loud at times. Director has no clue how to set up a plot (basically if you miss the title scene, you have no idea what this is all about), he splices in scenes you have no idea what they mean. What appalled me in a special way was the horrible sound mix - every line is cut sharp before its reverb can finish. You may not spot it right down, but you will feel something is wrong with the sound. Special effects are laughably bad - monster is made of rubber with no animatronics at all, image effects look like made by someone with one day training in After Effects. Gore effects are nice, though.

If you want something REALLY bad for having a great time with friends who cannot stomach older films, get a copy of Day of Darkness. You are guaranteed to have some baaad movie fun.

I will keep this short and simple. I am a HUGE zombie genre fan. This movie is actually pretty average if you can get past the inappropriate sexual references and content during the first half of the movie. I and I mean I actually thought of turning the rental DVD off twice during the first hour. The one female character actually made me feel like a sicko just watching this. Please for the love of god give me the budget for this movie and I would make something a hell of a lot better. Anyways, this movie is and looks like a TV movie except it has content that would never be allowed on TV. This has to be ten lines so I will continue. Rent this if you are really curious as it will never be on TV, but this is not a gem by any means. I give this movie 4 out of 10.

this is probably one of the worst if not THE worst I've seen out of all zombie movies. Starting, well, more or less decently, it evolves into some kind of unpredictable nonsense - the twists of the plot, involving aliens inhabiting the bodies of humans and turning them into flesh eating zombies and then trying to mix up their DNA to produce offspring of some freaky nature, I mean c'mon, was the scriptwriter on some kind of mix of alcohol and hallucinogens? The acting was absurd: actors look like talking wooden dolls with merely a shadow of what was supposed to be an emotion, like fear, anger, hatred, the dialogs are shallow, there is no reaction (or the reaction is so fake that basically makes me wonder whether they are real actors or just afraid of the camera) to what the partner is talking, I mean take for instance that woman, movie maker and a really really "wonderful" mother, who by discussing with how many men she has slept is showing an example to her daughter - that was one of the stupidest things I've seen. The crew gathered in the bunker of some kind is really colorful (including a god-fearing weirdo, a gay, a semi-couple or a couple to be, a pair of car sellers, one of them really likes tight clothing (especially loved his pink t-shirt with "hugs not drugs", a silent "hero", who's only tough when he has his gun, an ex-servicewoman, and lets don't forget poor Herbert locked in the basement) yet everyone seems to be careful about remembering the lines instead of trying to act. I think I could go on about this movie forever...If you are considering seeing it, you must either really have nothing nothing at all to see or are on a mission to see every possible zombie movie made, otherwise don't waste time, anything on the TV is way better than this, if not, go for a walk, read a decent book or find some other ways to entertain yourself. Honestly, my advice is not to even start watching - if there were a rating in a minus scale I'd probably have given it a minus 7 or so.

There are some fresh ideas here, which weren't that bad. Unfortunately the bland characters and the actors portraying them never really reach the same heights the ideas here may have deserved. I still thought it was worthwhile, it has some decent effects and although there are quite some inconsistencies and rather "illogical" behavior, you have moments where you just can't help liking the characters (especially when they have to put on a shirt with a "message" on them! (you'll know what I mean, if you watch the movie)

It's not too gory or too scary though and hints of social criticism never survive (no pun intended) the first ten minutes of the film. Still you could do worse and if you need a movie to have fun with and especially a laugh with, you can watch this with your buddies (as another reviewer also stated) ... first and foremost: Take this movie as intended ... not seriously!