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Chemical facility explosion releases toxin causing town residents to mutate into flesh-eating zombies. Military quarantines area. Story follows Jim, isolated in red zone, evading zombies to ... Read allChemical facility explosion releases toxin causing town residents to mutate into flesh-eating zombies. Military quarantines area. Story follows Jim, isolated in red zone, evading zombies to escape quarantine.Chemical facility explosion releases toxin causing town residents to mutate into flesh-eating zombies. Military quarantines area. Story follows Jim, isolated in red zone, evading zombies to escape quarantine.
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This is not a blockbuster and there isn't a lot of zombie action, however this is an interesting movie with character and plot development. I started watching this movie while my spouse was at work, but when he got home he immediately got interested in the plot, even though he normally disregards "those zombie crap movies" I watch. He also liked, The Horde, World War Z, The Night Eats the World, and Overlord. So, I'm slowly but surely converting him over to be a zombie movie fan.
Another reviewer wrote "don't expect a zombie movie". I think that is a thing of perception. What is a zombie movie to you? What do you combine with it and what expectations do you have when you watch one where zombies are involved? Because yes this is not that action orientated and yes it is laying a lot of weight and attention on the living rather than the (un)dead.
That doesn't mean they are not a big part of the movie and the issues of the characterts involved here. You get cliches and running zombies here - so bear with those if you can. This is low budget but still quite nicely done overall. There are worse outputs out there and this is really slow burning too ...
That doesn't mean they are not a big part of the movie and the issues of the characterts involved here. You get cliches and running zombies here - so bear with those if you can. This is low budget but still quite nicely done overall. There are worse outputs out there and this is really slow burning too ...
If you come into this expecting something like the Walking Dead, or any of the other hundreds of Zombie movies out there, you will be disappointed. This movie is actually more about the characters and the personalities and what they are experiencing and going through emotionally, than it is about Zombies.
Taking it for what it is, this movie is okay. It's not fantastic, but it is okay. If anything, the Zombies almost get in the way of the actual story itself, at least what little of them there are.
The movie is a wee bit confused in that it is trying to cater to multiple audiences by being a dramatic tale with some conservatively added violence, guns and gore. Doesn't quite work, but I don't think it completely fails either.
Taking it for what it is, this movie is okay. It's not fantastic, but it is okay. If anything, the Zombies almost get in the way of the actual story itself, at least what little of them there are.
The movie is a wee bit confused in that it is trying to cater to multiple audiences by being a dramatic tale with some conservatively added violence, guns and gore. Doesn't quite work, but I don't think it completely fails either.
I'm going to keep this very short as this is the first time I have entered my own review on a film, usually just using the reviews to help me decide whether or not to watch a film, and I don't want to spoil it by giving anything away.
I agree with some of the reviews that there wasn't much zombie action, however, I would mark it up there with the Walking Dead in terms of just the right balance of story vs zombie. For me this was the perfect type of Zombie film as you just never quite knew when those moments were going to happen. Certainly had my heart racing on occasions.
Give it a go - what have you got to lose?? An hour and a half of your time?? In my opinion, it won't be wasted!
I agree with some of the reviews that there wasn't much zombie action, however, I would mark it up there with the Walking Dead in terms of just the right balance of story vs zombie. For me this was the perfect type of Zombie film as you just never quite knew when those moments were going to happen. Certainly had my heart racing on occasions.
Give it a go - what have you got to lose?? An hour and a half of your time?? In my opinion, it won't be wasted!
This trash heap of the VERY tired 'zombie' bs was made on a budget, starring NON-professionals, and (s someone who works in the REAL version of this 'let's make a film' business); I'm tired of all these NON-SAG/AFTRA people in front of the camera, asked NON-IATSE behind (what that means is NO ONE involved in this pile of dung has ANY connection with the film business).
The problem stems from the idiotic idea that the 'more (product...i.e., 'films'), the 'better'.
I'm not the only one who grew up (at the birth of cable) with limited channels, but I was thrilled to find an old classic film to watch.
Now, with streaming services up the wazzoo, they act like they need to fill a gazillion free channels, and the only way to do that - on the cheap - is to throw garbage like this in the air.
This dung pile has those typically nauseating opening credits (the king's one sees moorings on YouTube, who doesn't own it and has no legal right to put something on their channel). Yet, they make this big, pathetic opening logo, like your sweet in a genuine film.
So you see some amateur graphics; 'ACME Pictures presents nobody in a film worn by John Doe, produced by John Doe, directed by John Doe...and on, and on...
I only put it on because I was bored for a few minutes and wanted to chuckle.
Just as I thought, this is EXACTLY what I just said; it's some 'film' written by (their last name's) Clay brothers, produced by these identical Clay brothers, and directed by-guess-yes, one of the Clay brothers.
There's NO ONE you've EVER heard of in things like this. It's amateurs from hell. Even worse, EVERY modern American cliché (if you wonder where these 'conspiracies' come from, look no further).
This one goes something like this: an explosion at a(American) military base causes a chemical release of bio-weapons, and these 'bio-weapons' cause the people (always in some Southern state - yuck).
As someone with a brain who's neither stupid nor a citizen of the States, it's VERY sad how far the country's fallen (primarily because of these Southern yahoos) in the past 15-20 years.
So that you know, bioweapons are ILLEGAL (of course, the paranoid idiots who live in the States believe otherwise. I wish post-birth abortions were allowed).
The ONLY countries creating them are the same dangerous group we all know: N Korea, Russia, (formerly) Iraq, etc. Even better, places like Iraq build them illegally and use them as their citizens! Brilliant.
Not.
So, back to the dung; the first twenty minutes of this have virtually no dialogue. The viewer watches some guy with a woman (I'm guessing his girlfriend, etc) 'escaping' from this quarantined area. In our first scene with the hair couple, she promptly dies (bullet wound. He next saw her dragging her body to a horse barn (not begging from knowing about, not caring about the American South, it looks like A VERY well-off privately owned 'horsey hotel'. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it's owned by the Clay brothers, mommy and daddy, and they're just two spoilt Southerners who are starving for attention and think they're film auteurs - they're not, but are too stupid to get two jobs, stop their folks foolishly spoil them-so touching.
Listen, there are many BETTER things one can do than watch stuff like this: paint a wall, read a book, go to the supermarket.
Anything but watching garbage like this.
Before I go, I just wanted to say how amusing it is (and I'm being VERY sarcastic) that this 'non-picture' has NOT one, but three entries into the 'plot' box in IMdB (I put a plot in parentheses because the dolts who write the things in those boxes DON'T know that a plot is NOT what it means when it CLEARLY says 'synopsis' on that box (a synopsis is JUST one, or, at most, two sentences which give A VERY brief overview of the film's main plotline. So instead of simply writing something like 'an explosion at a military base causes townsfolk nearby to turn into zombies', they think the longer, the better (BTW; whenever you see ANYTHING on ANY TV, the little box which tells you about what it is your watching - THAT'S the 'synopsis' box, and the reason SO MANY of these boxes are so filled they end with '...' - which must proper can't click on (their TV), is because of this very reason. One of THE WORST examples is some egotist who calls itself h-gg- I will not give it any more credit. Its main goal is to write novel-length things for EVERYthing.
The problem stems from the idiotic idea that the 'more (product...i.e., 'films'), the 'better'.
I'm not the only one who grew up (at the birth of cable) with limited channels, but I was thrilled to find an old classic film to watch.
Now, with streaming services up the wazzoo, they act like they need to fill a gazillion free channels, and the only way to do that - on the cheap - is to throw garbage like this in the air.
This dung pile has those typically nauseating opening credits (the king's one sees moorings on YouTube, who doesn't own it and has no legal right to put something on their channel). Yet, they make this big, pathetic opening logo, like your sweet in a genuine film.
So you see some amateur graphics; 'ACME Pictures presents nobody in a film worn by John Doe, produced by John Doe, directed by John Doe...and on, and on...
I only put it on because I was bored for a few minutes and wanted to chuckle.
Just as I thought, this is EXACTLY what I just said; it's some 'film' written by (their last name's) Clay brothers, produced by these identical Clay brothers, and directed by-guess-yes, one of the Clay brothers.
There's NO ONE you've EVER heard of in things like this. It's amateurs from hell. Even worse, EVERY modern American cliché (if you wonder where these 'conspiracies' come from, look no further).
This one goes something like this: an explosion at a(American) military base causes a chemical release of bio-weapons, and these 'bio-weapons' cause the people (always in some Southern state - yuck).
As someone with a brain who's neither stupid nor a citizen of the States, it's VERY sad how far the country's fallen (primarily because of these Southern yahoos) in the past 15-20 years.
So that you know, bioweapons are ILLEGAL (of course, the paranoid idiots who live in the States believe otherwise. I wish post-birth abortions were allowed).
The ONLY countries creating them are the same dangerous group we all know: N Korea, Russia, (formerly) Iraq, etc. Even better, places like Iraq build them illegally and use them as their citizens! Brilliant.
Not.
So, back to the dung; the first twenty minutes of this have virtually no dialogue. The viewer watches some guy with a woman (I'm guessing his girlfriend, etc) 'escaping' from this quarantined area. In our first scene with the hair couple, she promptly dies (bullet wound. He next saw her dragging her body to a horse barn (not begging from knowing about, not caring about the American South, it looks like A VERY well-off privately owned 'horsey hotel'. I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it's owned by the Clay brothers, mommy and daddy, and they're just two spoilt Southerners who are starving for attention and think they're film auteurs - they're not, but are too stupid to get two jobs, stop their folks foolishly spoil them-so touching.
Listen, there are many BETTER things one can do than watch stuff like this: paint a wall, read a book, go to the supermarket.
Anything but watching garbage like this.
Before I go, I just wanted to say how amusing it is (and I'm being VERY sarcastic) that this 'non-picture' has NOT one, but three entries into the 'plot' box in IMdB (I put a plot in parentheses because the dolts who write the things in those boxes DON'T know that a plot is NOT what it means when it CLEARLY says 'synopsis' on that box (a synopsis is JUST one, or, at most, two sentences which give A VERY brief overview of the film's main plotline. So instead of simply writing something like 'an explosion at a military base causes townsfolk nearby to turn into zombies', they think the longer, the better (BTW; whenever you see ANYTHING on ANY TV, the little box which tells you about what it is your watching - THAT'S the 'synopsis' box, and the reason SO MANY of these boxes are so filled they end with '...' - which must proper can't click on (their TV), is because of this very reason. One of THE WORST examples is some egotist who calls itself h-gg- I will not give it any more credit. Its main goal is to write novel-length things for EVERYthing.
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- TriviaThe warehouse in which the four survivors are holed up is called 'Clay's', the same surname as the writer/director.
- GoofsScott says their warehouse has no windows so they can keep the lights on whenever they want, but when they phoned the barn, they flashed their lights through windows so Jim could see them.
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- Vanredno stanje
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- Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, USA(Clay's Tobacco Warehouse)
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- $1,300,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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