Disaster L.A.

This was actually fairly decent for a movie done by pretty much one guy-Turner Clay- doing all of the directing/producing/effects/score...it had a decent enough, if overly used, plot and passable low-budget effects...the characters, who make some really questionable decisions, were decently drawn out enough for me to want to see how they ended up...I'd put it on par with a well-done SyFy flick pulled off with maybe less budget...all in all I had fun with it and appreciated the effort put forth by the director and cast...being a big fan of Zombie flicks and "B" movies I have sat thru some REALLY bad stuff and this doesn't even begin to reach that level of despair-if you're just looking for a fun little Friday/Sat. night popcorn horror/sci-fi type movie you could do much, much worse than this little film:)

"Disaster LA" ('14) one of a seemingly endless barrage of zombies on the rampage features opens well enough with some impressive digital effects but rapidly declines from there. After a heavy night of partying a group of friends wake up to find random meteor strikes decimating large portions of LA. Via newscasts we find out that these "ice meteors" carry spores which when inhaled turn one into a zombie. Shot largely at night in empty garages our cast races around LA trying desperately to get out of Dodge. Nothing new here, it's been done before (and better). Cast contains the usual stereotypes (nerds, jocks, spoiled rich kid) and to be honest I wasn't rooting for any of them. Makeup which is so important for a picture like this ranges from fair to embarrassing with the balance of the production values just OK for a low budget quickie like this. Just for the record for for a feature that promises hordes of zombies I think there were just under a dozen, tops. Steer clear of "Disaster LA". It's a disaster all right. JK

Well let me set it off. The zombie make up was not realistic, in fact it looked like one zombie had a bunch of wet paper towels on his face. Even if it's an independent film have the decency to throw money into it because this film was crap. I was not scared and there was not really any excitement. Half way threw the film we turned it off. I do not like zombie films to begin with and Disaster la definitely did not win me over. This is indeed a boring film. I had to slam a lot of wicked red drinks in order to place the disk in the tray but I did it. I wanted them all to die, the friend died in front of them for some reason but the other characters didn't seem to care. I found out that before renting the film that 1 guy does everything in the film. It was all for a waste sir.

The Plot:

After a meteor shower strikes Los Angeles, toxic smoke is released across the city causing people to physically change and become violent.

A small group of survivors plans to vacate the city by heading to the coast.

Isn't that always the way?

The REALLY good news regarding this movie is that it's not one of those first person cam films that are so played out. However, much, if not all of it is filmed with a shaky cam which I so hate.

The first quarter of the movie is well done. It's a good build to the disaster and the special effects are not cringe worthy, so it's cool.

The move to finding out about the "zombies" happens slowly leading to a build in tension. But then comes the first zombie attack and you start to think things are about to go south. Everyone is way too calm in the face of the flesh eater.

So roughly a third into the film your thinking this is going to start sucking. And you start realizing the acting isn't all that great.

And it isn't. Things rapidly go down hill.

Could have been a really good movie with some extra thought.

This isn't a "movie" movie, it's more like a movie produced and shown on the SYFY channel.

Cheap budget, crappy acting, writing = what you probably expect. It's also not scary, it's more disaster scenes/sad. I would recommend Diary of the Dead,REC, and maybe Mimesis if you're looking for zombie movies after Shaun of the Dead and classics.

The story begins very very much like Cloverfield. I think it's suppose to be an ode to Cloverfield, I'm not sure, but you'll think it's just plagiarism.

The characters are very....simple? Yeah. The tough guy is tough, the douche bag new boyfriend is just that,

the weakling is weak, and the Mary Sue protagonist is heroic and invincible.

It has the same crappy ex-boyfriend/girlfriend scenario like in Cloverfield-so good luck watching this.