Edges of Darkness is set in the near future as a zombie apocalypse consumes the world, flesh eating zombies are everywhere & the few remaining human survivors have a hard time staying alive. Stan (Alonzo F. Jones) & his wife Stellie (Shamika Ann Franklin) are blood drinking Vampires that need fresh human blood for their own needs & when Stan brings home the young Natalie (Annemarie Pazmino) to provide the blood they need things start to look up but Natalie isn't what she seems. Despite a zombie apocalypse outside Dean (Jay Costelo) is still obsessed with his computer often ignoring his long suffering wife Dana (Alisha Gaddis) but the computer seems to develop a mind of it's own & is always on the look out for new power sources. Then there's tough girl Heather (Michelle Rose) who will happily kill anything, living or dead, to survive. However Heather seems to have met up with the Son of Satan who claims to want to save the world...
Written & directed by Jason Horton & Blaine Cade with Horton on editing duties as well this pointless mix of horror anthology & apocalyptic zombie film is pretty bad in every aspect. Basically I assume the script for Edges of Darkness is trying to be a horror anthology with three separate stories connected by the wraparound zombie apocalypse scenario & it's as bad as it sounds. The thing that kills it is that all three stories (& the wraparound story as well) are complete crap, none have any shock twist endings with the evil computer story in particular feeling unfinished & pointless. The Vampire story has a neat set-up with two Vampires (I assume they are meant to be Vampires since they drink human blood but never have fangs & can go out in daylight) finding the zombie apocalypse has caused them a unique sort of problem as human blood has become very thin on the ground but what or who Natalie actually is is never explained & again there's no twist. The other story about Heather & the Son of Satan (who just happens to be black...) is also crap with no significant build up or pay-off although the twist that this little (black) kid is the Son of Satan is the biggest twist Edges of Darkness has to offer which says it all really. All three stories have supernatural &/or horror aspects but none work anywhere near as well as say an episode of Tales from the Crypt or the Hammer House of Horror television series or numerous other classic horror anthology films like The House that Dripped Blood (1971), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Asylum (1972), Tales that Witness Madness (1973) or The Vault of Horror (1973) to name but a few. The script leaves too many questions unanswered to be really satisfying & the vagueness of it all with possible Vampires, possible Son of Satan & a flesh eating computer processor that is just randomly thrown into the mix left me feeling underwhelmed.
The special effects are cheap looking, if you like watching badly made up zombies biting into bits of meat in close-up then you may like what Edges of Darkness has to offer. There's some blood splatter, a ripped off arm & little else. According to the IMDb FAQ page Horton wrote & directed the Vampire story Overbite & the Anti Christ story Up the Ante while Cade wrote & directed the living computer story Entanglement. Obviously shot on a low budget Edges of Darkness is quite an ugly film, set in three small apartments & taking place during a zombie apocalypse where we only ever see about five zombies (people can still walk down the street safely it seems) the photography is bad, the lighting is bad & the whole thing looks very low budget.
The IMDb says Edges of Darknes shad a budget of about $25,000 which sounds about right, that's all I need to say really. The acting isn't as bad as expected, sure it's not great but it's alright for the most part. Stan gets lots of one-liners full of profanity ('It's a zombie apocalypse and you got the f*****g curtains open!?') some of which are mildly amusing I suppose. I've never seen Annmarie Pazmino who plays Nathalie in anything else but she's hot.
Edges of Darkness is a really bad horror anthology with three really weak stories that offer no twists or turns or even straight horror, I'm struggling to find any positive aspects about Edges of Darkness so maybe I should just say don't bother since there are much better films out there.
Written & directed by Jason Horton & Blaine Cade with Horton on editing duties as well this pointless mix of horror anthology & apocalyptic zombie film is pretty bad in every aspect. Basically I assume the script for Edges of Darkness is trying to be a horror anthology with three separate stories connected by the wraparound zombie apocalypse scenario & it's as bad as it sounds. The thing that kills it is that all three stories (& the wraparound story as well) are complete crap, none have any shock twist endings with the evil computer story in particular feeling unfinished & pointless. The Vampire story has a neat set-up with two Vampires (I assume they are meant to be Vampires since they drink human blood but never have fangs & can go out in daylight) finding the zombie apocalypse has caused them a unique sort of problem as human blood has become very thin on the ground but what or who Natalie actually is is never explained & again there's no twist. The other story about Heather & the Son of Satan (who just happens to be black...) is also crap with no significant build up or pay-off although the twist that this little (black) kid is the Son of Satan is the biggest twist Edges of Darkness has to offer which says it all really. All three stories have supernatural &/or horror aspects but none work anywhere near as well as say an episode of Tales from the Crypt or the Hammer House of Horror television series or numerous other classic horror anthology films like The House that Dripped Blood (1971), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Asylum (1972), Tales that Witness Madness (1973) or The Vault of Horror (1973) to name but a few. The script leaves too many questions unanswered to be really satisfying & the vagueness of it all with possible Vampires, possible Son of Satan & a flesh eating computer processor that is just randomly thrown into the mix left me feeling underwhelmed.
The special effects are cheap looking, if you like watching badly made up zombies biting into bits of meat in close-up then you may like what Edges of Darkness has to offer. There's some blood splatter, a ripped off arm & little else. According to the IMDb FAQ page Horton wrote & directed the Vampire story Overbite & the Anti Christ story Up the Ante while Cade wrote & directed the living computer story Entanglement. Obviously shot on a low budget Edges of Darkness is quite an ugly film, set in three small apartments & taking place during a zombie apocalypse where we only ever see about five zombies (people can still walk down the street safely it seems) the photography is bad, the lighting is bad & the whole thing looks very low budget.
The IMDb says Edges of Darknes shad a budget of about $25,000 which sounds about right, that's all I need to say really. The acting isn't as bad as expected, sure it's not great but it's alright for the most part. Stan gets lots of one-liners full of profanity ('It's a zombie apocalypse and you got the f*****g curtains open!?') some of which are mildly amusing I suppose. I've never seen Annmarie Pazmino who plays Nathalie in anything else but she's hot.
Edges of Darkness is a really bad horror anthology with three really weak stories that offer no twists or turns or even straight horror, I'm struggling to find any positive aspects about Edges of Darkness so maybe I should just say don't bother since there are much better films out there.