I really enjoyed this one, and I'm not a huge fan of Zombie movies. But, I really liked the Native American setting and wherever they filmed it had a strong, desolate, kind of isolated feeling which really added to the doom filled atmosphere.
The actors were mostly Natives too, you could tell by their names. That gave the film kind of a unique setting where you had a genuine feel for the people.
The writing I felt was particularly sharp. I really liked some of the clever lines and the dry, subdued humour, it worked really well especially in such a grim film.
The suspense was extremely well done too, building the dread and relentless fear quite effectively as time went on. I really liked some of the quirky characters too which I feel due to the excellent writing and acting really came across as very believable.
Towards the end of the movie I kind of questioned the motives of why a certain guy did what he did, especially after the writers and the actor did such a good job of building this complex character and some true sympathy for him. I found that rather strange that they took the story in that direction, although I can see how they wanted to plot to go.
Also, for me personally, the one critique that I would have is that when you have such a powerful and relentlessly grim film like this, I think then you really have to 'Pay Off' the audience to some extent with the ending due to putting them through so much throughout the movie. And, without giving anything specific away, I really feel that with all that the characters and the audience went through, they could easily have made the ending a lot less grim. Just for me, I think at that point, the audience could have used a bit more of an uplifting ending and I feel that they just went a tad overboard with some negative happenings, that honestly just were not really necessary.
But yes, overall an extremely well made and very effective, very scary Zombie movie that has very sharp writing and acting and is far above average for a film of this type.
