Expiration

It is excruciatingly slow . The acting , script , directing , photography are all appallingly bad . The extent of the 'special effects' is blood on the character's face .

The actors playing guards can't even handle a gun convincingly . The entire film is very amateurish. It seems as though a bunch of friends were bored on a Sunday afternoon, and on a whim they decided to shoot a film . So, They pooled their pennies together, quickly wrote a script and shot the film in an empty warehouse nearby .The only thing worse than this film , would be Rancid 2 !

The story focuses on a group of participants who sign up for a mysterious medical treatment that promises to cure all their ailments. After taking a sedative, they wake up and they are all cured, but like all things in horror films, when something is too good to be true for the characters, it generally is.

The film uses stylish cinematography (The fact that this was shot on a consumer stills camera baffles me) and gritty surveillance footage to weave a tale of strange government testing.

What Alastair Orr and his production team has done here on this budget is nothing short of amazing. This does not look like a film that was made for R500k (That's less than $70K). It looks absolutely amazing. The acting is generally pretty decent, the make-up is great. The script kind of loses itself a bit but the general concept holds strong.

This is not your typical South African film and its great to see filmmakers having the balls, even if they don't have the budget, to do something a little different in a country that only supports crappy Afrikaans films that would be laughed off the international stage.

This is a well made and well acted film though the sound editing almost ruins it. At times it is nigh on impossible to hear what the actors are saying because the music is so loud and playing over the dialogue in far too many scenes.

However, the story is quite well thought out in both premise and execution, the setting obviously helped with the small budget. The actors were very good in their roles even if the story limited any real examination of their characters.

I rated it as a six which may seem high considering the sound problems but I would look forward to seeing any future films from the same writer, director and a few of the actors.

Don't watch this film if you're expecting a high budget Hollywood film. This movie was made for very little and is a fine example of what can be done on a micro budget. Give it a shot with what can be done with very little. Some inventive directing covers an interesting little story. The camera style on the budget is pretty admirable and I would like to see what could be done from these guys on a bigger budget. The story takes an interesting look at 4 applicants that sign up for a a bizarre medical test that has dire consequences. The zombies are dealt with in a unique way and the explanation to the test has a cool reveal. Give it a shot - but it is very, very low budget.

5:38:44 Once you see it, you can't unsee it!

Really enjoyable film. I've watched it a couple of times and it's still interesting. Well thought out and well made. You can tell it was made on a shoestring budget from the lack of unnecessary special effects and CGI, but this doesn't take anything from the film. In fact, the gritty realism of the filming adds to the atmosphere and shows what can be done when a studio can't rely on F/X to hold an audience's interest.