OK, this film is straight into the bad special effects pretty much straight away with the really bad sound effects for the black guy in the car firing what are audibly obvious blank rounds.
The people go from being ill to infected FAR too quickly for my liking (quite literally a matter of seconds!). Right, my 1st question. During the opening title sequence is there supposed to be no picture? Because as useful as that guy's narrative is, I'd have preferred to see what was happening.
Yes, I understand they did it to save money but that shouldn't be an excuse. We have no explanation as to who the person he's carrying actually is or where she came from and he is far too free with his ammo in a handgun that normally only holds 15 rounds.
One man organises the survivors he finds himself amongst. The soldiers sent to rescue him and his mystery woman are killed so he and 2 others are forced outside to collect key-cards from the bodies which will allow him to enter a bunker which is close by.
We learn little bits about the monsters in the form of a video dairy that crops up now and then during the course of events. It turns out although they look dead and eat flesh these aren't classic zombies as just shooting them in the head won't kill them.
I did like the very vague reference to "Night Of The Living Dead" but when the team are returning back where everyone else is sheltering I couldn't work out how the guy with the beard got injured (did someone shoot him by accident or was he bitten in the fraction of a second he was being held by the zombies?).
I assume the mystery girl cured him after sucking blood from his chest wound and spewing it back into his mouth? We find out the "zombies" were infected by an airborne biological weapon called Series 14 and we're told the mystery girl IS the antidote to this virus.
The film is incredibly slow for this kind of horror film, there are tiny segments of action but not much. It's incredibly thin on plot and far too thick on explanations and pacing isn't very good.
There are far too many boring lulls between what little action there actually is. The video diary leads to a seemingly obvious conclusion that everyone inside the bunker their going to is already dead.
Whilst walking a perimeter guard the ex Army girl finds a door open and bloody hand-prints on the floor, after securing the door she starts pulling open one of the boarded up windows for no explainable reason (I assume when she touched the blood she got infected). She also doesn't seem to struggle much when she's being pulled out of the window and despite having a fully loaded pistol only fires it once, even then that shot isn't at one of the monsters.
The stoner guy freaking out and killing 3 monsters armed only with 2 knives is a bit surreal and he looks very weird afterwards (I'm fairly certain he was bitten as he was being attacked).
The escape sequence is very over done and we go from having no action to having far too much. Why the mystery girl suddenly decides to just run into the monsters to get herself killed is not explained and seems pointless (yes, admittedly from the look in her eye she's insane but what she does is truly insane even by the standards of the insane).
The route they take to get to the van seems too long and far too risky, they couldn't have planned something shorter and safer? The black guy dies in the van without ever having given them the codes so the 3 of them who are still alive and are driving to the bunker can't get in there anyway. Even if they could the mystery girl with the cure is dead.
The key card did get them inside the bunker where the rather weird and extremely weak ending showed exactly what I'd previously predicted, only zombies inside the bunker and no-one else alive.
A very weak low budget movie with little plot, extremely bad pacing and a very predictable ending. Best avoided even for zombie movie fans
The people go from being ill to infected FAR too quickly for my liking (quite literally a matter of seconds!). Right, my 1st question. During the opening title sequence is there supposed to be no picture? Because as useful as that guy's narrative is, I'd have preferred to see what was happening.
Yes, I understand they did it to save money but that shouldn't be an excuse. We have no explanation as to who the person he's carrying actually is or where she came from and he is far too free with his ammo in a handgun that normally only holds 15 rounds.
One man organises the survivors he finds himself amongst. The soldiers sent to rescue him and his mystery woman are killed so he and 2 others are forced outside to collect key-cards from the bodies which will allow him to enter a bunker which is close by.
We learn little bits about the monsters in the form of a video dairy that crops up now and then during the course of events. It turns out although they look dead and eat flesh these aren't classic zombies as just shooting them in the head won't kill them.
I did like the very vague reference to "Night Of The Living Dead" but when the team are returning back where everyone else is sheltering I couldn't work out how the guy with the beard got injured (did someone shoot him by accident or was he bitten in the fraction of a second he was being held by the zombies?).
I assume the mystery girl cured him after sucking blood from his chest wound and spewing it back into his mouth? We find out the "zombies" were infected by an airborne biological weapon called Series 14 and we're told the mystery girl IS the antidote to this virus.
The film is incredibly slow for this kind of horror film, there are tiny segments of action but not much. It's incredibly thin on plot and far too thick on explanations and pacing isn't very good.
There are far too many boring lulls between what little action there actually is. The video diary leads to a seemingly obvious conclusion that everyone inside the bunker their going to is already dead.
Whilst walking a perimeter guard the ex Army girl finds a door open and bloody hand-prints on the floor, after securing the door she starts pulling open one of the boarded up windows for no explainable reason (I assume when she touched the blood she got infected). She also doesn't seem to struggle much when she's being pulled out of the window and despite having a fully loaded pistol only fires it once, even then that shot isn't at one of the monsters.
The stoner guy freaking out and killing 3 monsters armed only with 2 knives is a bit surreal and he looks very weird afterwards (I'm fairly certain he was bitten as he was being attacked).
The escape sequence is very over done and we go from having no action to having far too much. Why the mystery girl suddenly decides to just run into the monsters to get herself killed is not explained and seems pointless (yes, admittedly from the look in her eye she's insane but what she does is truly insane even by the standards of the insane).
The route they take to get to the van seems too long and far too risky, they couldn't have planned something shorter and safer? The black guy dies in the van without ever having given them the codes so the 3 of them who are still alive and are driving to the bunker can't get in there anyway. Even if they could the mystery girl with the cure is dead.
The key card did get them inside the bunker where the rather weird and extremely weak ending showed exactly what I'd previously predicted, only zombies inside the bunker and no-one else alive.
A very weak low budget movie with little plot, extremely bad pacing and a very predictable ending. Best avoided even for zombie movie fans