Infected: The Darkest Day

The cover is what actually got my attention to watch this movie. Right at the start I already knew it was a B movie when the camera panning and blurry unfocused technique was used which was very amatuer. As I continued watching I noticed there's not much dialogue and conversations are simple few word sentences. If you don't have good scripting then you make up for it with good action. But even that was poorly done. I couldn't continue to watch it because there was constantly unnecessary.panning closeups in and out. Then when it came to action scenes whether running or fighting, you cannot see clearly or make out what they are doing. The camera shakes too much that you can not make out what they are doing. Also, every scene is short, lasting about a second or two, jumping from one person to another, and one place to another. Focus then unfocus, behind objects and things, looking like the director was trying to use every technique in the book to make it work. I got dizzy just watching the screen moving all over the place. I cannot possibly watch the whole movie like this. It was very poorly done with bad acting, bad editing and overall bad production.

A 2021 zombie movie, will I watch it? Of course. Did I have any expectations for it? No, not really.

Did writers Will Martin and Dan Rickard deliver a wholesome and entertaining movie. No, not even remotely. So was it worth the time, money and effort? No, no and no.

First of all, let's just address the first scene, the intro scene, that was blatantly stolen from "28 Days Later", from the atmosphere, the events that happened and even the music was very much reminiscent of that other and far more entertaining movie. Sure, this was off to an adequate start.

Then the movie just fell apart. The camera work in the movie was all over the place, and a lot of wobbly, shaky and out-of-focus camera work does not make for an entertaining movie in my book. Nay, when I sit down to watch a movie, I want to watch a wholesome movie with proper production value, and not something I could film better with my own DV camera.

The storyline is so generic and mundane that you could essentially drift off to Sleepland, which you will mostly likely do during the course of "Infected: The Darkest Day", and wake up later and still be up to speed with the events of the movie.

And then there was the sound. By God that was a mess. The scenes with infected, shooting, helicopters and what not were of adequate sound, you know where you could hear things properly. Then cut to every single scene with dialogue, and the sound was so low and muffled that it was hard to comprehend most of the dialogue. Luckily I had the option for subtitles, which I had to make use of in order to comprehend the dialogue.

The acting in "Infection: The Darkest Day" was dubious at best. So you are not in for something great here.

The zombie make-up was not really impressive, so "Infected: The Darkest Day" didn't harvest any much needed points here.

Sure, they had things like soldiers, proper costumes, even helicopters (or proper CGI ones), so it wasn't all bad. But yeah, it was.

"Infected: The Darkest Day" was indeed a dark day in the history of zombie movie, because this heap of rubbish from director Dan Rickard is one you should avoid. I am rating this 2021 movie a mere two out of ten stars. This was by no means a shining or glorious moment in the history of zombie movies. Nor is it a movie that I will ever return to watch a second time, nor one I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on.

From the outset, terrible focusing of the camera was annoying. Constant blurring of images was (at best) bad cinematography.

Next, I could hardly hear what was being said - it was as if the cast were speaking through a mattress.

Finally, the actors didn't question why the lead was brought into their midst, rather just welcoming him as a long gone friend. There was no questioning about his history just a nod of acceptance.

I gave up watching this movie after 20 minutes because it was so bad and didn't offer any promise of improving.

Constantly needing to adjust volume as the spoken parts were unintelligible. Oh how I wish I had read the other reviews before starting watching this...

I gave it a 4 back in 2015. Its your average low budget zombie conspiracy. Acting, filming and direction are all ok but the writing needs help. I lowered my rating to 3 because there's been several low budget zombie conspiracy movies since this one first appeared that were better.