Deadsight (2018) User Reviews

Zombie virus

[TheLittleSongbird · 5/10 · 1 October 2019]

Have a thing for good concepts in films, love it when the film, shows etc lives up to it or exceeds it but hate it when it is wasted by lacking execution or when it doesn't quite hit the mark. There are numerous examples of both in film and television, but recently it has sadly leaned towards the latter and it is especially frustrating when the concept is more than good and then there are other things that show so much potential.

'Deadsight's' concept was one of the best for any film seen recently, and that it appeared like it tried to do something different is to be admired. It was not an over-familiar one, and while there are recognisable elements of course for a film with zombies didn't find myself thinking that it was your typical zombie film and don't really class it as one. More a horror-thriller with them featured. The good news is that in my view, the concept was not wasted, as there are good things about 'Deadsight'. Do think however that there was big potential to do so much more and it was one of those not sure what to make of it films.

Will start with the good things. 'Deadsight' looks good, surprisingly so considering the cover made it look as though it would look very cheesy and cheap. That's not the case, found the photography stylish and atmospheric, the effects are not overused or abused and the make-up is suitably freaky and doesn't look goofy. There is some eeriness in the music, and there are tension and thrills to be had (there could have been more certainly but they were there) and genuine they were too.

The two lead characters are worth rooting for, their chemistry unforced, and while the zombies are underused they do have menace. Adam Seybold and Liv Collins fare more than adequately in the lead roles, even actually found them good where they seemed to care about their predicament.

On the other hand, there are things that 'Deadsight' could have done better. The story, even for one with a deliberate pace, did drag and there are uneventful stretches that indicated that there wasn't enough in the story to sustain the length. While a good job is done with the leads, the other characters are very bland and don't fit as comfortably, some didn't seem necessary either.

Also felt that the dalogue could have flowed much better and when there was any it was a little too heavy on exposition, especially in the early portions. The film really peters out at the climax, it is predictable, any attempts at explanation (and too much is left unanswered) are vague and there is a complete lack of tension or anything really.

In conclusion, not an easy film to rate. Not bad but could have been much better. 5/10

Just your average, generic zombie movie here...

[paul_haakonsen · 5/10 · 6 July 2019]

Right, well with my unhealthy interest in all things zombie, of course I had to sit down and watch "Deadsight". I didn't know anything about it, much less knew of its existence before I stumbled upon this 2018 movie by random chance in mid-2019.

Well, the storyline in "Deadsight" didn't really deviate all that much from your average, generic zombie movie. A couple of survivors band together to live through a zombie outbreak. And the audience is, of course, given no insight into the outbreak - where it started, what it is, or anything of the like - surprise, surprise.

The movie had essentially just two characters you needed to relate to, the rest was just random filler. That meant that Adam Seybold, playing the blinded Ben Neilson, and Liv Collins, playing pregnant police officer Mara Madigan, had to perform on a higher level to carry the movie. So did they? Well, to an extend. It would have been working better if they had been given characters that were more fleshed out. Ben Neilson, for instance, didn't know how he ended up in an ambulance being blinded, but he had no problems remembering other things, and Mara Madigan seemed very surprised at everything they came upon while traveling, and she was supposed to be the local police officer. No, it just didn't really work all that well.

"Deadsight" is a fairly slow paced movie, which was a fact that worked against the overall enjoyment of the movie I'd say. And also the shortage of zombies wasn't really working in favor of the movie. And I love how the police officer resorted to shooting people in the head as her first option when entering a hostile situation. How very police-like. Duh!

The make-up on the zombies was adequate. Don't expect the usual gut eating scenes as zombie movies tend to include. But the make-up was, for the most part, good on the zombies in the movie. I didn't like the fact that the zombies were able to open windows and doors. That was just odd.

All in all, "Deadsight" is a mediocre entry in the zombie genre. It is a movie that came and went without as much as a groan, much less a bite. I sat through it, and I can honestly say that it is hardly a movie that warrants more than a single viewing.

Disappointing Film Without Storyline

[claudio_carvalho · 4/10 · 25 July 2019]

An amnesic blind man (Adam Seybold) awakes alone in the back of an ambulance and unsuccessfully tries to contact anybody using the radio. Soon he finds zombies attacking him but he succeeds to flee to a farmhouse where he hides himself. Meanwhile the pregnant police officer Mara Madigan (Liv Collins) is lured by a sick woman and her police car is hijacked. She walks on the road and reaches the same farmhouse where the blind man is hidden. She decides to look for the ambulance to leave the place but it has run out of gas since the man, Ben Neilson, had started the car and left it working. Now Mara and Ben need to team up to escape from the zombies.

"Deadsight" is a disappointing film without storyline. The poor screenplay is a complete mess and there is only a weak explanation close to the end of the story about the zombie outbreak. In addition, the lead characters are stupid and their decisions are always silly and inadequate. The art of the poster is the best this film can offer. My vote is four.

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Simple and good!

[slim-44 · 5 September 2020]

No talking you to death about the meaning of life or how the new reality of zombies has existential metaphorical purpose. Good jump scares, actual action, and the pervasive feeling of the leads being under constant threat makes this a fun movie to watch.

7/10

Boring and annoying...

[bastian-kreuzer · 3/10 · 5 July 2019]

My guess is the makers of this film just thought: Hey, lets make a zombie movie and have a blind guy and a pregnant woman as the main leads. That should be interesting enough so we don't really have to write a script. Or have a plot. Or have reasonably developed characters. Or any other characters besides the zombies. Right?

Wrong. This movie is boring, annoying and irritating. Most of the movie its just the partially blind guy stumbling around aimlessly. Occasionally a random zombie pops out of nowhere and attacks him. He somehow survives all of this and makes it to a random house in the middle of the woods. For some reason that I cannot recall the young and extremely pregnant police officer winds up at the same house. So now we have a couple of people stumbling around, doing stupid things and occasionally getting attacked by random grumbling zombies. We still don't have a plot though. Or well developed characters. Or a script. There's exactly one more character that has more than one line in the movie and he is there to provide exposition on the zombie outbreak. The reason for the outbreak is very weakly explained as well. But I guess there's your plot.

By all the laws of evolution the two main characters would have never survived the messes they manage to get themselves into. The decisions they make are absolutely horrendous. But since this is a movie they survive till the end just so movie can have the heroic uplifting memorable ending that can actually be seen coming from about a thousand miles away. The ending comes equipped with the sort of annoying music score you would expect.

My advice is don't watch. There is nothing worth watching. You have seen it all before in other better movies.

Had a promising concept

[josemadrigal8-473-127984 · 5/10 · 19 May 2022]

The movie was ok but definitely could have better. The main character's make dumb decisions that are potentially life or death decisions. The number 1 was why do they keep just leaving the weapons they find? Nobody in a real life or death situation would leave a potential life saving protection at every turn. But other than that good concept but could have been really good.

The characters actions are even more improbable than a zombie apocalypse.

[samthemonkey-18953 · 2/10 · 25 October 2020]

A blind man capable of stumbling through the zombie apocalypse unbitten. A near to term pregnant woman capable of repeated cross-country travel.

They are able to find each other in different remote locations in the Canadian countryside time after time by pure happenstance. Then make every poor decision possible, and somehow survive.

These two bumblers shouldn't have been capable of trip across the city on a normal day, much less the countryside during an apocalypse.

They should have named this movie "Blind Luck".

Good idea

[kosmasp · 3/10 · 18 February 2020]

There's a saying in German schools, that goes something like "he/she was always trying to do his/her best". Now that is code that can be read as, that person could not really achieve anything. Now this movie has a nice almost unique idea, but it does not do its best with it.

There are certain segments/scenes that really feel like they go on forever. The ending almost makes up for most of it, which can be seen in ... well I guess ambiguity. I'm not sure if it was meant that way, but you can read something into it ... then again, I might be too nice, as I've been accused of before ...

What the bloody hell did I just watch¿? ¿

[georgsimon · 1/10 · 5 July 2019]

There were so many quastionable scenes and acting in this movie that I wouldn't even know where to begin. Quite frankly I'm not going to begin, just going to say that this movie's director is braindead and should never make any movie ever again!!!

A ZOMBIE TWIST

[kirbylee70-599-526179 · 6/10 · 15 July 2019]

With the appearance of THE WALKING DEAD some years back now zombie films became the big thing for a while. Zombie films were popping up as fast as, well, zombies in a zombie movie. While that's good on one hand for fans of the genre it's bad as well. The genre became stale and predictable. So when something different comes along its worth making note of it. DEADSIGHT is that something new.

The film opens through the blurred vision of some inside an ambulance who then passes out. When he wakes, there's no one around him. Still not quite able to see he discovers he's handcuffed to the gurney. He finds a bottle of eye drops in his pocket and puts some in which helps a small bit. Still somewhat blind he replaces his bandages and tries to find out what happened.

Once outside it isn't long before one of the ambulance attendees attacks him, growling while doing so. Ben (Adam Seybold), as we learn later is his name, defends himself but soon the other attendant is upon him. A truck coming by with an armed man in the back shoots hitting the attendant and saving Ben's life but doesn't stop.

While this is going on police officer Mara Madigan (Liv Collins) wakes up and gets ready for work. Obviously pregnant she dresses and heads out. She had heard Ben calling for help on the ambulance radio and heads his direction to find out what was going on. When she gets nearby a woman in the road stops her. Obviously in the midst of changing she steals Mara's car and takes off down the road leaving Mara on foot.

Through determination and sheer luck Ben has made his way to a farmhouse, attacked once more outside. He takes down this zombie and begins to explore the house, counting off steps as he goes. Attacked once again it seems like the end for Ben when Mara shows up and shoots the zombie. Assessing the situation the pair decide to work together and make their way back to the ambulance. When it becomes apparent they can't make it with Mara guiding Ben, she heads out on her own.

The predicaments that this pair come up against with Mara's being pregnant and Ben being blind are what make this movie a bit different than most. This twist works well within the confines of the zombie genre and brings something new to the table. There's little change in the zombies but the only options are fast of slow. In this film they're both for some reason, perhaps due to the time of death. We also get an explanation for the outbreak for once, a variation of a flu shot that went bad.

The one thing that could ruin a movie like this is placing the roles of Ben and Mara in the hands of bad actors. While I've not heard of much by either Seybold or Collins both do a great job here. They play the roles as believable rather than ridiculing the characters. They also don't overact, a problem found in many low budget films being made in the horror genre. And yes, this is a low budget film.

But that doesn't stop it from being entertaining and interesting. In fact the low budget might actually be a plus here. The film works well in the rural setting (perhaps a tribute to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, which can also be seen when someone is killed in a cemetery by hitting their head on the corner base of a tombstone), much better than it would have in an urban one. The pregnancy, while not the first seen in a zombie flick (the remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD) it plays well here as Mara is the only one who can see.

I've seen some review take the movie to task for issues that stem from the budget and I think that's a bit unfair. For me I was interested throughout the movie never feeling that urge to press the fast forward button to get to the good parts. The combination of interesting story and solid acting made it worth watching and a film I would recommend to those who enjoy a good horror film with something new to offer.

Wow! They don't respect the viewers..

[bgsmoove · 1/10 · 4 July 2019]

This zombie flick is extremely stupid! You can watch for yourself and see the dumb decisions with weapons.. I just turned it off after last bone headed choice. Not to mention scenes that are completely unfathomable..

Great zomdrama!

[edmondjoanne · 8/10 · 22 August 2020]

Simple test intriguing zombie film. Survival under extremely challenging circumstances. Not bad for a lower budget film.

An ok movie full of bad decisions.

[kthunt-43434 · 6/10 · 8 September 2020]

The movie itself and the acting are just fine. Having one of the two main characters being blind at the start of a zombie plague is something different. Bad enough to be blind but during a zombie attack, that would just plain suck. Talk about terrifying.

My only real problem with the movie is that in every case a decision could be made they made the worst one possible. First off, at the start she fires 4 rounds from her semi-auto pistol and says she only has 2 rounds left. Yes, there are 6 rounds magazines but this is a police primary weapon, not a sub-compact. Possible sure, but not terribly probable and not a spare magazine or round to be had. Speaking of which, at the farm house two zombies/bodies are present which would apparently be the husband and wife. He's in the tub having shot himself and the revolver is still in his hand. She's got 2 rounds left but does she take the pistol, nope. She covers it and him with a sheet. Nor does she look for any more weapons or ammo around, on a farm. Now they are determined they have to get back to the ambulance because apparently there are no vehicles on this farm at all. Not that they check. So she tools up with an ax for him (who's staying behind) and a machete for her. Now the first time he uses the ax, he doesn't accidentally lose it, he leaves it behind. The first time she uses the machete, she leaves it behind. She empties her pistol and throws it away. Later she actually gets the farmers pistol, still doesn't look for more ammo and throws it away as soon it's empty. That's just the first half of the film.

Another stupid zombie movie, worse than passing a kidney stone.

[psxexperten · 1/10 · 4 July 2019]

Words cannot express how horrible this movie is. Watching paint dry is quicker & more interesting. You can make that film with your smartphone because it's only killing and smashing zombie heads. Script non existent as well as a plot. Who make this kind of rubbish? Are they even human? The list really does go on. The mystery will forever baffle me. Yet oddly depresses me too.

Ridiculous movie

[shakawiyalh · 1/10 · 15 September 2020]

If you're into a movies that maddens you with the characters actions making absolutely no sense than this is for you. Be prepared to feel like you've wasted chill time.

Trash

[jeansanjuan · 1/10 · 25 October 2019]

Don't watch this movie. Waste of time...........................................

Shoot Me.

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 4 July 2019]

Ben Neilson (Adam Seybold) is the blind guy during a zombie apocalypse. He is handcuffed in the back of an ambulance, stopped by a cemetery. He ambles down the road, blindly defending himself. He is later aided by a very pregnant policewoman (Liv Collins) not played as well as Frances McDormand. Farmhouse, trailer, rednecks, shotgun, heads blown off. We eventually discover a flu shot mutation is the culprit. Boring for a zombie film.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

Questionably story line

[wayne_tucker · 4/10 · 9 February 2021]

This movie drags on for far to long, blind man fights off zombies yeah sure! Pregnant woman too. Why and where are they going? Everyone knows find a secure base and secure entrances right, but no the blind man and pregnant lady wander around going ? Who knows .. but it's ok she names the baby Ben I'm sure , lol

This is nothing special and I wouldn't go too out of my way to see it

[kevin_robbins · 4/10 · 16 December 2022]

Deadsight (2018) is a movie that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a small town where a virus has caused a zombie outbreak. A pregnant police officer heads to a factory to investigate some strange behaviors observed in that area and she runs into a partially blind man who has somehow survived getting eaten by the living dead. Can the officer and blind man survive and escape the outbreak?

This movie is directed by Jesse Thomas Cook (The Howrd) and stars Liv Collins(Cult Hero), Adam Seybold (Hellmouth), Ry Barrett (If a Tree Falls), Jessica Vano (The Demolisher) and Carrie Cathrae-Keeling (Cult Hero).

This movie is the definition of mediocrity. The blind man surviving throughout the various scenarios seemed like a stretch. The acting and kill scenes was very mediocre. The zombie makeup and look was inconsistent with some zombies being better than others. The attack scenes were also mediocre with some even being funny. The ending was supposed to be clever and shock the audience but was pretty predictable.

Overall, this is nothing special and I wouldn't go too out of my way to see it. I would score this a 4/10 and only recommend seeing it if nothing better is available.

Cant understand the hating.

[heretic369 · 6/10 · 26 August 2019]

Blind guy in a zombie apocalypse is a nice take, which has enough suspense until the pregnant woman joins, who is a bit much. Make up is fine while effects show its a cheap movie, as does the hurried ending. Still nice enough movie for fans.

Why the hate reveiwers ask?

[mhorg2018 · 1/10 · 3 September 2022]

Because this stinks. It's another dull zombie movie where two characters, one blind, one a pregnant cop (Fargo anyone?) try to survive an outbreak. Unlike many others, while the acting is decent, the terrible pacing and lack of any real terror, hurts this. It just plods along from scene after scene with little happening. Eventually at the end, it ends. I'm not going to spoil this for anyone but it seems like the filmmakers just ran out of interest or money or both. Worthless...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Bravo !

[communityzylo · 9/10 · 24 February 2021]

One of the biggest zombie movies I've ever seen. This tension between having to be discreet in order to survive but at the same time not seeing anything is terribly stressful. A great bravo.

Better than the rating suggests

[rgdunc · 7/10 · 6 September 2020]

I very nearly skipped this movie because of the low rating and super cheesy cover art. Glad I didn't! I really don't understand the hate for this movie, it's much better than the rating suggests. Yes it's a bit on the lower budget side, but the production values are pretty good. It's a slow burner and relies more on atmosphere than the usual installments in the genre. There are very few characters - the story is set around a very recently blinded man and a very pregnant lady. The ending was predictable, but if you're a fan of the genre you're likely forgiving of such things. The acting & special effects were fine. It's not the best zombie movie you'll ever see, but it's pretty good. If you're a fan of the genre don't skip this one.

To many mistakes!

[carljhamelsr · 1/10 · 24 September 2022]

Good concept, poor exsiccation. The acting was just so so, no Oscars. Way too many errors in the script and the editing.

Spoilers: He is blind but, shoots the heads off the zombies, uses a double barrel 12 ga shotgun and blasts a zombie standing right in front of his partner from 20' away. This movie is full of this kind of error. I suspect the director had no knowledge of guns before making this. I won't add any of the other mistakes in case you decide to watch this because it would give away too much of the story. I was disappointed with the ending; I didn't know it only takes 5 minutes to have a baby?

Bland and generic

[Leofwine_draca · 3/10 · 22 September 2023]

As a seasoned fan of the horror genre, I have a general rule of thumb: avoid low budget Canadian movies! They're generally not very good and DEADSIGHT (2018) is a typical example of this. It's a cheap post-apocalyptic zombie movie about a couple of survivors battling the usual onslaught of the undead, although the budget is so low here that we're limited to a maximum of two or three shamblers at one time.

The film does begin with some potential as our blinded hero struggles to flee the city in scenes reminiscent of Wyndham's classic DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. Sadly, once the action moves to a remote farmhouse it stalls considerably, with boring zombie biting and two-dimensional characters. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD it ain't!