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Director/writer: Reese Eveneshen.

Cast: Emily Alatalo, Lionel Boodlal and Colin Paradine.

If there is ever a movie that requires viewers to keep a bottle of Advil nearby, Dead Genesis is it. The problem is with all the headache inducing camera-shaking going on. Has anyone in the production team heard of a tripod?

Shaky-cam is a style that some movie and television shows can pull off only when it adds to the drama. Sometimes, the jarring movement is soft and natural, and other times, it is like standing still while an earthquake is happening. But when such a movie is done with no thought towards keeping the camera steady at all, sometimes a vomit bag is required!

But when the principal cinematographer was replaced after a day, based on the triva written for this film on the IMDb, writer/director Reese Eveneshen was very bold to continue on and take on the job himself.

Reese Eveneshen is the director behind the recent zombie horror opus, Dead Genesis starring Emily Alatalo, Lionel Boodlal, Colin Paradine, Erin Stuart. This enterprising young filmmaker showed that with his debut feature film, that he was a competent filmmaker ready to take on a challenging sub-genre. Dead Genesis was technically sound, respectablly executed and it looked far better then other similarly low budget zombie fare on the market. Dead Genesis took on subject matter such as zombies as a metaphor on the war on terror, sexual relations between the undead and the living and statements on the human condition. We had the chance to ask Reese Eveneshen a few questions about his film. Here's what Reese had to say.

Who is Reese Eveneshen and what are you all about?

I'm like most film makers, our background is based in our bedrooms and living rooms watching hours upon hours of movies...

Dead Genesis PosterDead Genesis is a zombie flavoured film, which has been flying under the radar for some time now. The film has had a premiere back in April and now the film has a new promotional poster, which shows some of the characters for the film. The film's one-sheet shows a war between the living and the dead, but how easy would fighting shamblers, or slow moving zombies really be?

In the trailer below for the film, the age-old, Romero inspired zombies are used, which could only really capture a seventy year old woman and not anyone who could move faster than 2-3 km an hour. This argument has been made before. However, using shamblers to take over the land of the living is, simply, unbelievable. Take inspiration from Danny Boyle in 28 Days Later, or even Romero's later zombies in the Land of Dead who have intelligence and attack en masse for realism.