I don't buy that this film was created with $175 budget. Heck the electricity, and that horrid orange foundation on the lead and white shoe paint on the zombies totaled more than $175. For everyone out here buying this gimmick, I have a clue to sell you.
Moving along to the film... even if this film was created with $175, it's failures are in areas that doesn't cost a thing.
For example, the deaf woman is either a mediocre actress or there was poor directing because she literally has one facial expression the entire time. Deaf people can and do emote with their face and body language, especially one that once had their full hearing before. Literally her face reading a book, having dinner with her spouse's mom, or coming into close contact with multiple zombies are all the same. Lol And it's sad because all the close ups of her face are beautiful since she has great bone structure and nice skin.
There are also several scenes that she responds to creepy sounds like while in the barn she notices the lights being turned on. Fine. But then she looks back at the exact moment the zombie makes a sound walking in (the audience can hear this but she shouldn't be able to hear it).
Another example is that her husband is telling her that she has to have dinner with his mom right before getting out of the car at the airport. She is mute in the car with him. So why is her verbally talking to her and not signing? Then she goes over to the mother in laws for a sandwich and pretends to be mute, but the mother is talking to her as if she can hear. At first you question is this one of her memories before she lost her hearing but then she clearly has on the same outfit, and her hubby is even trying to contact her cell (because he's out of town since she dropped him off at the airport).
She has this radio on that verbally gives Local Hazard Alerts, yet she cannot hear it because she deaf. Ummm ok why didn't this same emergency broadcast on her cell? This goes to your phone regardless of poor signal. The only thing stopping it is if you don't have battery life. So she eventually comes back to the cell and see all of these missed messages from hubby, but not ER broadcast. Smh
Ok so she's slowly noticing things aren't right. Being deaf doesn't make you dumb. Her neighbor literally left their car ignition on with all the doors open, and no one answered the door. So what does mute girl do? Drives the car (after she already turned it off before knocking on the door) to pull it further in the neighbor's driveway. Then she goes back in the house as if what she just experienced was normal, and she goes about doing her usual tasks. Lol No call to the neighbor, a girlfriend to vent, a hubby or police.
Speaking of her cellphone. It has a signal to let her know all types of movement is going on in her home, and let's her hubby text messages come thru but not to text or call out? Mmmhmmm
I'm not even going to mention how she moved about after receiving alerts of movement and even catching someone in her home!!! She didn't act like a normal person and just because she's deaf doesn't mean she is incapable of being afraid and hyper vigilant with her movement. She leaves all types of doors open behind her why investigating these movements. Smh
Ok moving along...
I love that it's a slow burner and I love the premise. It reminds me of a Quiet Place meets a stoned zombie (yes because I've never seen such snail-paced low energy zombies before). I liked that it wasn't the typical hysteria type of zombie vibes. So this added something new to the zombie genre for me.
Speaking of the zombies... the makeup seemed low budget. Lol Only once was it effective and that's when one of them was in a very dark corner in her garage. As more light hit the makeup on the other zombies, the cheesier and underwhelming it got. I actually laughed a couple of times when I am pretty sure I should have been frightened?
The score was nicely done for the most part although there was a few scenes where the music didn't exactly match what was going on. But overall it added to the atmosphere and tension. Basically it succeeded in ways to help the weak actress, non existent script, and amateur directing.
I think with an adequate budget and skillful people in and behind the film, it could have been a solid 8 or 9 easily. Instead it's about 4. Sorry I don't give out participation trophies just because the movie is better than ones with hundreds of thousands of dollars for a budget. So everyone rating this a 7 and above simply because of the budget, I don't agree with.
Side note: there was a reviewer that mentioned millennials won't enjoy this because it doesn't have (insert childish or gimmicky stuff). What's interesting is that these sweeping generalizations are childish in itself. Millennials aren't teenyboppers; some of us are as old as 41 with teenage and even adult children of our own. Just stop it because it's very cringy. Lol.
Moving along to the film... even if this film was created with $175, it's failures are in areas that doesn't cost a thing.
For example, the deaf woman is either a mediocre actress or there was poor directing because she literally has one facial expression the entire time. Deaf people can and do emote with their face and body language, especially one that once had their full hearing before. Literally her face reading a book, having dinner with her spouse's mom, or coming into close contact with multiple zombies are all the same. Lol And it's sad because all the close ups of her face are beautiful since she has great bone structure and nice skin.
There are also several scenes that she responds to creepy sounds like while in the barn she notices the lights being turned on. Fine. But then she looks back at the exact moment the zombie makes a sound walking in (the audience can hear this but she shouldn't be able to hear it).
Another example is that her husband is telling her that she has to have dinner with his mom right before getting out of the car at the airport. She is mute in the car with him. So why is her verbally talking to her and not signing? Then she goes over to the mother in laws for a sandwich and pretends to be mute, but the mother is talking to her as if she can hear. At first you question is this one of her memories before she lost her hearing but then she clearly has on the same outfit, and her hubby is even trying to contact her cell (because he's out of town since she dropped him off at the airport).
She has this radio on that verbally gives Local Hazard Alerts, yet she cannot hear it because she deaf. Ummm ok why didn't this same emergency broadcast on her cell? This goes to your phone regardless of poor signal. The only thing stopping it is if you don't have battery life. So she eventually comes back to the cell and see all of these missed messages from hubby, but not ER broadcast. Smh
Ok so she's slowly noticing things aren't right. Being deaf doesn't make you dumb. Her neighbor literally left their car ignition on with all the doors open, and no one answered the door. So what does mute girl do? Drives the car (after she already turned it off before knocking on the door) to pull it further in the neighbor's driveway. Then she goes back in the house as if what she just experienced was normal, and she goes about doing her usual tasks. Lol No call to the neighbor, a girlfriend to vent, a hubby or police.
Speaking of her cellphone. It has a signal to let her know all types of movement is going on in her home, and let's her hubby text messages come thru but not to text or call out? Mmmhmmm
I'm not even going to mention how she moved about after receiving alerts of movement and even catching someone in her home!!! She didn't act like a normal person and just because she's deaf doesn't mean she is incapable of being afraid and hyper vigilant with her movement. She leaves all types of doors open behind her why investigating these movements. Smh
Ok moving along...
I love that it's a slow burner and I love the premise. It reminds me of a Quiet Place meets a stoned zombie (yes because I've never seen such snail-paced low energy zombies before). I liked that it wasn't the typical hysteria type of zombie vibes. So this added something new to the zombie genre for me.
Speaking of the zombies... the makeup seemed low budget. Lol Only once was it effective and that's when one of them was in a very dark corner in her garage. As more light hit the makeup on the other zombies, the cheesier and underwhelming it got. I actually laughed a couple of times when I am pretty sure I should have been frightened?
The score was nicely done for the most part although there was a few scenes where the music didn't exactly match what was going on. But overall it added to the atmosphere and tension. Basically it succeeded in ways to help the weak actress, non existent script, and amateur directing.
I think with an adequate budget and skillful people in and behind the film, it could have been a solid 8 or 9 easily. Instead it's about 4. Sorry I don't give out participation trophies just because the movie is better than ones with hundreds of thousands of dollars for a budget. So everyone rating this a 7 and above simply because of the budget, I don't agree with.
Side note: there was a reviewer that mentioned millennials won't enjoy this because it doesn't have (insert childish or gimmicky stuff). What's interesting is that these sweeping generalizations are childish in itself. Millennials aren't teenyboppers; some of us are as old as 41 with teenage and even adult children of our own. Just stop it because it's very cringy. Lol.