This is one of those films where there is a glimmer of a good movie here. But it is ruined by the filmmakers not knowing how to film a movie or write a scene. And it should be noted that the filmmakers have some talent. The effective makeup and gore effects are proof of this. But the flaws overpower this. 1. As has been said before, the sound is terrible with the soundtrack often overpowering the dialogue to the point that you only know the characters are speaking because the subtitles show up on the screen. 2. We are apparently supposed to care about these characters. But we can't really care about them because we can't hear what they are saying and don't know who they really are as people. I only found out their names about 2/3 of the way into the movie and they really weren't given any identifiable personality traits. The dialogue itself seemed to be improvised for the most part and that is not always a good thing in a movie. The film needed to be rewritten. 3. It is always a bad sign when the director cannot control how his extras look or behave onscreen. When extras camp it up as much as they did here, you cannot take the film seriously. The zombies were in no way terrifying because the extras playing them camped it up so much that all the terror and horror was taken out of them. Honestly, I have never seen so many smiling zombies onscreen before. Yes, it looked like the people playing them were having a good time. But that doesn't necessarily translate to the viewer having a good time. And that is sad because, this film had some good moments to it. The director and crew have talent as do some of the actors. But they were overshadowed by what looked to be an amateurish production. Although the unintentional gaffes in the subtitles were funny.
