I bought this at a pawn shop for a dollar. I want my buck back! Not enough action.
8 Reviews
Very slow movie
cruemeister197226 March 2019
A bit too low key for its own good...
Leofwine_draca24 April 2017
Warning: Spoilers
ANTIDOTE is a very low budget post-apocalypse movie with just two main characters. The story sees them wandering through a chilly, snowbound world, but the amount of actual ingredients in the film is so low in number that watching quickly becomes a chore. It's not even as if the direction keeps you watching as in a film like VALHALLA RISING by Nicholas Winding Refn. The story sees the male of the pair get infected with some kind of zombie virus while the woman injects him repeatedly to try and save him. You can see the ending coming a mile away. As a film it's dark, dank, and a not at all enjoyable endurance test.
Antidote review
JoeytheBrit26 June 2020
In a post-apocalyptic world, a woman cares for her brother-in-law when he becomes infected with the plague that has decimated the population. A sluggish, low-budget effort that generates a decent atmosphere of foreboding in its early scenes, but goes downhill fast when the action becomes largely confined to one basement. The vacillating of the character played by Kate Flanagan grows increasingly infuriating.
Pointless zombie movie
starman-wa18 January 2016
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I am a fan of post apocalypse, sci-fi and some horror, what I can't stand is zombie movies so when reading the synopsis I was hoping it would not be focused on this part. Unfortunately it was not focused on anything - this was a pointless movies in all aspects.
SPOILERS
The story behind the 'virus' and how it killed everyone was never told, neither was how the sister in law ended up being in love with the the brother in law. The kissing scenes were ridiculous - the guy is fully infected with some unknown disease where he is vomiting blood, has scars all over his face etc and they are pashing away...
There are only 3 actors who have lines, and whilst the acting was reasonable the movie wasn't, it's slow, doesn't really make the characters interesting or believable, doesn't even produce any real jump scares - just a fail on all levels.
SPOILERS
The story behind the 'virus' and how it killed everyone was never told, neither was how the sister in law ended up being in love with the the brother in law. The kissing scenes were ridiculous - the guy is fully infected with some unknown disease where he is vomiting blood, has scars all over his face etc and they are pashing away...
There are only 3 actors who have lines, and whilst the acting was reasonable the movie wasn't, it's slow, doesn't really make the characters interesting or believable, doesn't even produce any real jump scares - just a fail on all levels.
Oh lord, this was boring...
paul_haakonsen18 September 2019
I was under the impression that this was a zombie movie in some way, so of course I jumped at the chance to sit down and watch the 20134 movie "Antidote" by directors and writers Craig DiFolco and Pete DiFolco.
Well, I managed to endure 42 painstakingly long and excruciating minutes of sheer boredom. Wow. This movie was horribly monotonous, slow-paced, dull and downright pointless. After 42 minutes, I was just ready to claw my eyes out and I got up and ended this misery. And believe you me, I have no intentions of returning to watch the rest of the movie, because the storyline and characters both had absolutely zero appeal to me.
Now, I am rating "Antidote" a two out of ten stars rating because there was something to be said for the production value of the movie. But everything else, just don't even cut it. And a friendly word of advice, don't bother with this movie.
The storyline was so infinitely boring and uneventful that I lost interest in the movie fairly quickly in, but I opted to stick with it, because the movie could pick up its pacing and get into gear. Just never happened and I gave up, tossed in the towel.
And as for the characters, well let's just say that they were as interesting as a concrete sidewalk. They lacked appeal, they lacked interest, they lacked personalities, and they lacked just about anything that would make you have an interesting in watching them on the screen, traversing the apocalyptic barren lands, and they lacked depths and meaning.
All in all, "Antidote" is not worth the effort. Pure and simple.
Well, I managed to endure 42 painstakingly long and excruciating minutes of sheer boredom. Wow. This movie was horribly monotonous, slow-paced, dull and downright pointless. After 42 minutes, I was just ready to claw my eyes out and I got up and ended this misery. And believe you me, I have no intentions of returning to watch the rest of the movie, because the storyline and characters both had absolutely zero appeal to me.
Now, I am rating "Antidote" a two out of ten stars rating because there was something to be said for the production value of the movie. But everything else, just don't even cut it. And a friendly word of advice, don't bother with this movie.
The storyline was so infinitely boring and uneventful that I lost interest in the movie fairly quickly in, but I opted to stick with it, because the movie could pick up its pacing and get into gear. Just never happened and I gave up, tossed in the towel.
And as for the characters, well let's just say that they were as interesting as a concrete sidewalk. They lacked appeal, they lacked interest, they lacked personalities, and they lacked just about anything that would make you have an interesting in watching them on the screen, traversing the apocalyptic barren lands, and they lacked depths and meaning.
All in all, "Antidote" is not worth the effort. Pure and simple.
I'm Scared I'm Going To Hurt You.
wandernn1-81-68327424 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
At the beginning we find a man looking at a scratch on his hand. He covers it with a glove so his wife? wont see it. they are trudging thru partially snow covered wooded hills. They come across a body by a river. Man's hand would is rapidly swelling. Ooops, not a body yet, someone who was passed out and looks...very sick.
So the couple moves on, starting a narration about how the end of the world is coming. An infection has swept the world and has killed most. So now we know what's going on. Avoiding infection. And judging by the wound on the man's hand, he is infected.
Couple stumbles upon farmhouse at dark. Knocking on door produces nothing so they go inside. Searching house doesnt seem to reveal anyone. Man inspects wound in mirror and knows the infection is spreading in him rapidly. Still doesn't tell his wife. Oh nevermind she finds him seizing on floor, she knows now!!!
Now I guess begins her nursing of him. Man tells wife to leave him and she refuses. Woman goes back to where they found dying person at the river to retrieve dying person's backpack. Looks like dying person is still alive and hiding in the trees tho so when woman returns to farmhouse probably dying person will follow her to become some threat later on.
Back at House infected man is not happy with how his condition is deteriorating. apparently the syringes and 'medicine' she found in dying person's backpack helps to quell the pain of the infection , but dying person apparently did follow her back to the house and is now trying to break in to where her and infected man are hiding.
On Day 2 in Basement, woman boards up windows as man marvels at how he can pull his own fingernails off without much pain. I guess it is still okay to touch however as they have no issues with holding each other. Man does say he feels stronger and his head clearer. I guess kissing is no problem for spreading infection either. Not sure where they are getting food at all. I haven't seen them eating anything yet. Oh wait was that a dream? LOL I guess it was a dream that he was improving.
Days 3 and 4 man gets worse, woman goes out looking for food and finds sick person who grabs her so she stabs him wiht a knife. And then another man with gun comes in and finds her. The man had a sick wife. It apparently didn't end well. So woman takes new guy to see dying guy. New guy tells her he's going to become a monster regardless of meds. That she needs to kill him!!!
Ruh Roh they hear noises upstairs!!! Who is this now???? She / Hannah grabs new guys' rifle... She comes back to find new guy is dead and infected husband closing on her , infected guy upstairs closing on her, infected husband kills infected guy upstairs and he comes at her and grabs rifle and points it at his face. He's obviously trying to resist killing her. And she finally does it. She puts him down.
We end she packs up her stuff, preparing to go it alone. And that's how we end. Really, sort of an average movie about end of the world. Not a lot of glitz and glam.
-1 Star for actually just being too simple. End with 4/10
So the couple moves on, starting a narration about how the end of the world is coming. An infection has swept the world and has killed most. So now we know what's going on. Avoiding infection. And judging by the wound on the man's hand, he is infected.
Couple stumbles upon farmhouse at dark. Knocking on door produces nothing so they go inside. Searching house doesnt seem to reveal anyone. Man inspects wound in mirror and knows the infection is spreading in him rapidly. Still doesn't tell his wife. Oh nevermind she finds him seizing on floor, she knows now!!!
Now I guess begins her nursing of him. Man tells wife to leave him and she refuses. Woman goes back to where they found dying person at the river to retrieve dying person's backpack. Looks like dying person is still alive and hiding in the trees tho so when woman returns to farmhouse probably dying person will follow her to become some threat later on.
Back at House infected man is not happy with how his condition is deteriorating. apparently the syringes and 'medicine' she found in dying person's backpack helps to quell the pain of the infection , but dying person apparently did follow her back to the house and is now trying to break in to where her and infected man are hiding.
On Day 2 in Basement, woman boards up windows as man marvels at how he can pull his own fingernails off without much pain. I guess it is still okay to touch however as they have no issues with holding each other. Man does say he feels stronger and his head clearer. I guess kissing is no problem for spreading infection either. Not sure where they are getting food at all. I haven't seen them eating anything yet. Oh wait was that a dream? LOL I guess it was a dream that he was improving.
Days 3 and 4 man gets worse, woman goes out looking for food and finds sick person who grabs her so she stabs him wiht a knife. And then another man with gun comes in and finds her. The man had a sick wife. It apparently didn't end well. So woman takes new guy to see dying guy. New guy tells her he's going to become a monster regardless of meds. That she needs to kill him!!!
Ruh Roh they hear noises upstairs!!! Who is this now???? She / Hannah grabs new guys' rifle... She comes back to find new guy is dead and infected husband closing on her , infected guy upstairs closing on her, infected husband kills infected guy upstairs and he comes at her and grabs rifle and points it at his face. He's obviously trying to resist killing her. And she finally does it. She puts him down.
We end she packs up her stuff, preparing to go it alone. And that's how we end. Really, sort of an average movie about end of the world. Not a lot of glitz and glam.
-1 Star for actually just being too simple. End with 4/10
Talk about bleak.
parry_na28 November 2020
'Alone' (AKA 'Antidote') is an independent film, that features a small number of main players stuck in a basement, shouldn't be this compelling. This slow-moving study on how a global pandemic can affect one couple, when the man becomes infected, is unnerving and grim - with occasional toe-curling scenes of physical disintegration, of course.
The acting, from main players Kate Flanagan and Michael Izquierdo as Teresa and Matthew is extraordinary throughout, going beyond simply recreating emotions, raw and desperate. This is human endurance gone further than it should, several times over.
By the end though, if there is a lesson to be learned, it is probably this: if things appear to be hopeless, that's because they are. My score is 8 out of 10.
The acting, from main players Kate Flanagan and Michael Izquierdo as Teresa and Matthew is extraordinary throughout, going beyond simply recreating emotions, raw and desperate. This is human endurance gone further than it should, several times over.
By the end though, if there is a lesson to be learned, it is probably this: if things appear to be hopeless, that's because they are. My score is 8 out of 10.
Not Your Average Horror Film
nammage15 July 2017
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I guess I just didn't watch the same film as the other two reviewers or those who rated it so low. The acting is good. I've seen a lot of horror/zombie/thriller flicks and in most of them the acting is average to poor. The acting in this, from the very first scene, was good. And for an indie film with actors I've never heard of: that's saying something. Even the production value is top notch. The gore, what little of there there is: good. Sets, locations: real, which is even better. Direction and editing is good. What more can one ask for? Really?
One of the other reviewers mentioned they're in a "snowbound world". Yeah, I'm thinking it's just wintertime where they live and it snows there. But what do I know: I live in Florida. Is the story slow? In my opinion: no. It's paced out just fine. If it was like every other Zombie film then it'd be cliché and I wouldn't be defending it, if that's what I'm even doing.
It's simple: disease infects people, anyone can catch it no matter who you are but there is a supposed cure but it drives you insane before it cures you. So, this film mainly just has two people in it (there are two others but it mainly focuses on the characters of Matthew and Hannah) and one gets sick (Matthew) and the other (Hannah) takes care of him.
I felt this had less to do with subject of an antidote (cure), Zombies, or even the wont of necessarily surviving, per sé. I found the drive more inclined of one loving another and what they would do for that person; and is that uncharacteristic for a Zombie film or a horror film in general? Yes but if all you're looking for in watching horror films is gore, nudity, and death then I think you need a better grasp on things because the genre is so much more than that.
People keep saying they want less cliché and when they get it they complain because it doesn't live up to their expectations. Then make your own film. Let's see how that goes. I'm not saying this film is perfect, it's not. Frankly, I thought it was too short. I felt more dramatic elements should have been thrown in; the Stranger (Matthew Rauch) should have had a bigger role (maybe even more lines) and the Zombie? Not in it too much unless one counts the character of Matthew but he laid in a makeshift bed most of the time and mostly convulsed.
My idea of things not known for one horror flick to the next is that since most of them are cliché to the point you're watching basically the same film but different actors, is that if one holds a mystery that isn't solved--for whatever reason--then just take from the many other films and attach it to the one you're watching because if the filmmakers actually decided to explain the mystery then it most likely would be one those anyway. Sometimes a "mystery" is best unsolved.
7/10
One of the other reviewers mentioned they're in a "snowbound world". Yeah, I'm thinking it's just wintertime where they live and it snows there. But what do I know: I live in Florida. Is the story slow? In my opinion: no. It's paced out just fine. If it was like every other Zombie film then it'd be cliché and I wouldn't be defending it, if that's what I'm even doing.
It's simple: disease infects people, anyone can catch it no matter who you are but there is a supposed cure but it drives you insane before it cures you. So, this film mainly just has two people in it (there are two others but it mainly focuses on the characters of Matthew and Hannah) and one gets sick (Matthew) and the other (Hannah) takes care of him.
I felt this had less to do with subject of an antidote (cure), Zombies, or even the wont of necessarily surviving, per sé. I found the drive more inclined of one loving another and what they would do for that person; and is that uncharacteristic for a Zombie film or a horror film in general? Yes but if all you're looking for in watching horror films is gore, nudity, and death then I think you need a better grasp on things because the genre is so much more than that.
People keep saying they want less cliché and when they get it they complain because it doesn't live up to their expectations. Then make your own film. Let's see how that goes. I'm not saying this film is perfect, it's not. Frankly, I thought it was too short. I felt more dramatic elements should have been thrown in; the Stranger (Matthew Rauch) should have had a bigger role (maybe even more lines) and the Zombie? Not in it too much unless one counts the character of Matthew but he laid in a makeshift bed most of the time and mostly convulsed.
My idea of things not known for one horror flick to the next is that since most of them are cliché to the point you're watching basically the same film but different actors, is that if one holds a mystery that isn't solved--for whatever reason--then just take from the many other films and attach it to the one you're watching because if the filmmakers actually decided to explain the mystery then it most likely would be one those anyway. Sometimes a "mystery" is best unsolved.
7/10
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