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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... Read allAfter 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.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.
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This movie is kinda odd,it starts off like one of those "Meteor Movies " with a sci-fi things happening at first ,then shifts to action/horror.Like a good made for SyFi channel movie ,the acting is o.k. ,the story is basic enough to not get lost in ,the people that did it ,on such a low budget ,did it with decent camera work,lighting ,and sound...all o.k. ,with good production values.Not a whole lot of gore,it still has some sauce splashin around ,with the zombie action.Nothing fancy ,just what goes with this shoddy little survival story.A few lame moments were forgiven ,and it ended like i could tell it would.Basic ,by-the-numbers Sci-fi -action /zombie /meteor movie, with very little (if ANY ?) cursing ,or nudity.It might have got a 4 from me if it had a different something going for it...like say , Dead Shadows did ,that one rocked .....
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.
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.
I do enjoy zombie movies, but unfortunately most of the zombie movies that flood the market are just not worth the effort. I bought "Disaster L.A." from Amazon based on the praise and rating it had received. However, this movie was nowhere near my expectations.
Let's start with the good things; zombies. Yes, anything with zombies is good. And there was a consistent and coherent flow to the movie. The best part of it all would have to be the music, though.
Sadly, the bad parts far outweigh the good parts. First of all, you see maybe ten zombies throughout the entire movie. Seriously? In a zombie outbreak taking place in Los Angeles and you see ten infected individuals, no, no, no... It just reeks of low budget. And while we are on the topic of zombies, then they succumbed to the classic error of low budget zombie movies; putting make-up on the face only and forgetting about the rest of exposed flesh on the zombie actor. It was just so bad. And those contact lenses, seriously?
The story was also flawed. Especially with the fact that the US military bombing Los Angeles without having exhausted all other possible options. It was just stupid.
What I hated the most about "Disaster L.A." was the awful camera-work. The frame was constantly in motion, swaying back and forth, which was a major nuisance. Had they opted to use proper camera rigging, there would have been such a better production value to the movie.
"Disaster L.A." is a zombie movie that came and went without even leaving the smallest of dents, except for a small one on my wallet.
Let's start with the good things; zombies. Yes, anything with zombies is good. And there was a consistent and coherent flow to the movie. The best part of it all would have to be the music, though.
Sadly, the bad parts far outweigh the good parts. First of all, you see maybe ten zombies throughout the entire movie. Seriously? In a zombie outbreak taking place in Los Angeles and you see ten infected individuals, no, no, no... It just reeks of low budget. And while we are on the topic of zombies, then they succumbed to the classic error of low budget zombie movies; putting make-up on the face only and forgetting about the rest of exposed flesh on the zombie actor. It was just so bad. And those contact lenses, seriously?
The story was also flawed. Especially with the fact that the US military bombing Los Angeles without having exhausted all other possible options. It was just stupid.
What I hated the most about "Disaster L.A." was the awful camera-work. The frame was constantly in motion, swaying back and forth, which was a major nuisance. Had they opted to use proper camera rigging, there would have been such a better production value to the movie.
"Disaster L.A." is a zombie movie that came and went without even leaving the smallest of dents, except for a small one on my wallet.
I have seen some bad movies in my time but oh my god, who wrote this sentimental drivel. Zombies everywhere or so you would think in a city of 3.8 million, a day after a zombie outbreak and you see a massive hoard of about 12 zombies on the streets. The characters kept stopping to tell each other they loved each other every 5 minutes on the empty streets walking everywhere in a city of ohh 3.8 million cars they could not find one car and keep it for longer than 1 minute. They ran around with no weapons except their love for each other. In a city full of ohh 3.8 million guns. Two of the lovely heroes attacked 3 zombies one with a 2 by 4 piece of wood and the other with a walkie talkie. Walking dead eat your heart out. There was helicopters everywhere in the sky but not one cop or soldier on the street. Just hooded zombies and two zombies in what looked like surgical gowns. They must have shared the wardrobe. I think it was the only movie i saw that i was hoping the whole cast would die. I think its because they deserved to die coz they were stupid. Nuff said.
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.
Did you know
- TriviaSyfy network aired it on November 6th, 2016 as "Apocalypse LA" as opposed to "Disaster LA" to attract more viewers.
- GoofsWhen Turner is checking an abandoned car in the parking garage, he finds a knife and has a cigarette in his mouth, but when the camera cuts to another angle it is gone and he is lifting it back to his mouth.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Blackwell Ghost (2017)
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- Disaster L.A.: The Last Zombie Apocalypse Begins Here
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- Los Angeles, California, USA(main location)
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- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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