Awakening is yet another zombie movie that makes me wonder what its intention was supposed to be. You got the typical "people lost in zombietown" story with 2 gangs trying to survive and building themselves shelter from the zombies who strangely only come out at night. To make it more ridiculous they don't join forces but kind of fight each other which didn't make any sense to me like many other parts of this movie didn't. Many things in this movie are just thrown in the pot and stirred without any logical explanation... best example of the trashy script are the ridiculous sex scenes thrown in with some booby shots all in one passage. The zombies are standard, the gore is minimal, the acting is substandard and the sound of the movie in dialogs is bad. After all it could have been a typical trash-fest with some humor (like the ghettoboy with his cool slangtalk) and zombiegore. Unfortunately the staff couldn't decide which way to go and bored a long way along the road to end up nowhere pretty much. The first ending is as idiotic as in movies like "Stink of flesh" ... meaning it doesn't have an ending. And the added rapture scene is pretty funny, yet thrown into the movie like everything else. There's too many better or at least entertaining in a trashy way movies than this one, so better avoid Awakening.
8 Reviews
Awakening: Better than the first but that's not saying much
Platypuschow19 January 2018
After watching the first Zombie Night (2003) I considered it one of the worst zombie movies I'd ever seen so my watching it's sequel was foolish. I have an insistence of watching full franchises and therefore I dived in expecting the worst.
This is a brand new story with no connection to the first movie and in 3yrs they've clearly learnt a couple of things about film making. Sadly they haven't learnt enough and once again it's flawed at every turn.
With a generic plot there is no point in me even describing you won't see anything you haven't seen before but you'll see it done in a decidedly incompetent way.
Bad, bad, bad.
The Good:
Passable soundtrack
The Bad:
Badly made in every respect
Soundtrack often doesn't fit what's going on
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Contaminating water by throwing zombie corpses in is perfectly logical
Instead of having a sex scene just have a lengthy scene of two people massaging each others butts
This is a brand new story with no connection to the first movie and in 3yrs they've clearly learnt a couple of things about film making. Sadly they haven't learnt enough and once again it's flawed at every turn.
With a generic plot there is no point in me even describing you won't see anything you haven't seen before but you'll see it done in a decidedly incompetent way.
Bad, bad, bad.
The Good:
Passable soundtrack
The Bad:
Badly made in every respect
Soundtrack often doesn't fit what's going on
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
Contaminating water by throwing zombie corpses in is perfectly logical
Instead of having a sex scene just have a lengthy scene of two people massaging each others butts
An embarrassment to Canadian film professionals
macfarlane-220 October 2007
Every once and awhile, you'll watch a film that will inspire you, entertain you, move you to tears, have you laughing out loud, and even raise from your seat and make you cheer. This is NOT one of those films. Aside from wishing/hoping that no one outside the people that were involved in the making of this film actually watched it, I'm ashamed this film so brazenly states it's Canadian roots.
Everything about this film was substandard; the poor writing, cinematography, editing, make-up, and especially the acting. I appreciate the fact that you can't overkill another release in the zombie genre....no I take that back. This film did. A very bad release from another Romero wanna-be. Perhaps this would have been successful as a senior year student theatre play, but not as a film...even with a questionable budget. A waste of money, and 80 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Everything about this film was substandard; the poor writing, cinematography, editing, make-up, and especially the acting. I appreciate the fact that you can't overkill another release in the zombie genre....no I take that back. This film did. A very bad release from another Romero wanna-be. Perhaps this would have been successful as a senior year student theatre play, but not as a film...even with a questionable budget. A waste of money, and 80 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
Zombies, zombies everywhere
FantasyCreatureFilmsLLC27 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Dave Francis, who directs, does it again with his newest undead offering Awakening. This is another in his series of horror films. However, this is a much more ambitious attempt than his original indie Zombie Night. There are definitely more professional production values on display than in his earlier works. The cinematography, for one, is decent. His leads, Steve Curtis and Sharon DeWitt, turn in able performances. Dave Francis makes an appearance as the father. Kudos to the full-on zombie makeup artistry. This film, made on what would be considered a lower budget than the look of the film would belie, used hundreds of actors to portray undead zombies. Dave Francis has worked with a dedicated team to create his apocalyptic vision. This work owes a nod, as do so many in this genre, to the cinematic tradition inspired by the Ed Wood school of horror and suspense that later brought us Night of the Living Dead, which it owes much of its rehashed zombie styling to. Perhaps originality is lacking, but for those seeking their old-fashioned zombie fix without all the special effects of a larger budget film, this might do.
3 for Effort
RoboGarrett11 June 2020
I'll give this a 3 for the effort and because a couple of the actors are good. Over all this is a truly terrible zombie movie. Awful writing, no idea how to actually create a film, bad sound and video, just really bad all the way through. Still you can tell they have a love for the subject they are trying to create (zombie films) and as I said a couple of the actors were good. Most others were bad though or even just plain awful (Tex Watt especially was so cringe inducing we actually watched the credits of this turkey to see who was responsible for such a bad performance).
Worst Zombie movie Ever Made this movie so ugly parody of Night of the Living Dead !
seckinlergafri8 August 2017
Awakening (2006) is a horror film from Canada directed by David J Francis film that was released on October 28, 2006 89 minute movie was so boring with all the stupidity and silliness of her I watched this movie via DVD. This movie is too much deficiency, the brightness of this movie is so dark, terrible acting, stupid Zombie !, very cheap dialogue dialogue ... Until I do not care about this movie .. This movie is so boring and just most dialogue, acting the The cast in this movie is so rotten ... Do not watch the movie, which will waste your time ....
Movie never found online
hatchiebrandon19 December 2020
Hi
geramendez-9618510 February 2019
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