Grave Mistake

considering that this was a low budget grade z movie, it was fairly good. The acting in this may not be of great quality but it is an amusing story with some great special FX for a low quality production. The zombies unlike other low budget low grade zombie flicks do actually look really good and the special of the "kills" are actually fairly gruesome. it's nothing new to the zombie genre but you could do a lot worse with your 90mins than watch this. It is a comedy as well if you look at the characters in this. half of them had me laughing excessively because they were so larger than life over the top characters and even some of the things that they say are fairly cringe worthy but also make a giggle. don't expect too much from this movie and you'll have a good time. After all, this isn't a George A romero film.

Shawn Darling literally did everything on this film, director, music etc. You name it he had a hand in it.

I really enjoyed this effort and it delivered, for me, all that I was expecting, and more.

A group of people have to fight off the undead. That's about it really.

Lets start with some of the characters. Seth Darling (obviously related to the director) plays Alex a young boy that is abused by his step father and finds himself with, his abuser, in the group of survivors. A good performance from him. Then there's Monika (Wendy Andrews) the gutsy female survivor who is a love interest to Mike. She's so tough that she hardly bat's an eyelid when her son turns into a zombie and has his head blown off a few feet away from her!!! James Blackburn plays Mike Shaw, your friendly mechanic and ,leader of the group of survivors. He was a believable hero.

Yes it is low budget, but I found a lot to like in this film. The effects were excellent and were a few notches above the budget limitations. The zombies were also very effective and were of the dawn of the dead variety.

Speaking of Dawn of the dead, this is an obvious homage as there are some very similar characters and situations. The survivors hold up in a hardware shop and arm themselves with weapons. There is a black hero who looked very much like Ken Foree.

I got involved in the characters and the step father of Alex was without any moral fiber. He beat Alex, beat his wife and then turns out to be a racist. You really wanted bad things to happen to him.

All in all a good effort that had a good story and some comedic touches and delivers on the gory goods.

Beware !!!! do not watch the trailer 1st as this includes all of the best bits and gives away most of the plot.

Bought a horror movie pack and this was one was in the bundle, so I thought OK I'll give it a try. My goodness! I wish I could rewind my mind along with everyone who was present in watching this film with me. I understand the idea of making films on little or no budgets (i.e. Blair Witch Project, Paranormal Activity) but this is absolutely horrible writing and some of the worst special effects I have ever seen. I teach at a elementary school and have seen better effects by the kids in the magnet program. I usually don't write reviews but something about this movie rubbed me the wrong way with it's perversions and mockery of the mentally handicap along with underlying racism. I also looked up the writer, director, producer, editor Shawn Darling and found that he has been making movies and doing special effects for years, so there is really no excuse as to why he would make such a terrible film. I would strongly suggest he try a alternate profession. Do not waste your time or money on this film.

This is just a really bad movie. I tried to find something in it worth liking, but I couldn't find anything. The actors are wooden, several of the actors seem to be faking accents and voices or trying to sound like different people, there are incidents and moments that are completely implausible and the production is just overall dreadful. If you look beyond the zombies, it just doesn't look like a zombie apocalypse. It looks like an abandoned town. The first few minutes of the film defy explanation. A guy goes out and dumps toxic waste on a gravesite without any reason. Is he a jerk? Does he have a grudge on the deceased? Is he just bored and trying something he saw in a zombie movie? It's not explained. From there, the film just kind of limps along introducing several of the weakest most boring stereotypes I've ever seen. No one in this film is worth rooting for, and when the "apocalypse" finally occurs, no one really makes any attempts to save themselves. The rest of "Grave Mistake" just limps along after that. Bottom line, you can really see the cheap production in this, and when it finally ends, there's really no big interest in this silly script. Maybe if they made it a comedy it might have been better, but all the references and allusions to other much better zombie flicks isn't enough to save this. .

Why is it that some people waste valuable time and coin creating such tripe. I usually love independent b movies, especially anything zombie related, but this dead mess is beyond redeeming. The horror is not the zombie horde, but the crap plot, crap acting, crap FX, crap directing and so on. I really tried to give chance but couldn't hold the puke any longer. The script writing is plain dumb. Character are not believable with actors who seem to be all related to the director. This is one of those movies thought up, written and shot in one day on a drunken stupor. The obnoxious dummy what started the infections was just sickening to watch. This has to the the worst movie I've ever seen. PLEASE do you mind and stomach a favor and pass this up.