That's what I was thinking when I watched it. I didn't mind the documentary style in which it was filmed, but it was too shaky and too chopped up for my taste. Not a terrible movie, but I doubt I'll watch it again.
It did kind of have the "Jaws Factor" working in its favor in the beginning. That is, it was much scarier before you actually see the zombies. The scenes of the initial group in the farm house were kinda creepy before they ran into the zombie upstairs.
At first I thought the movie was all filmed with the same camera, just with different cameramen and with different groups of people and we're supposed to assume the camera was either found or was passed from one group to another.
However, now I'm not sure. It may have been 3 different groups of people with 3 different cameras.
As far as crazy Goke, he was the most frightening thing in the movie. Much scarier than any zombie. Given that zombies were everywhere, you'd like to think that any humans still alive would be just as concerned about survival as you are. However, I think the movie does a good job of showing that is not the case. Goke, with a name and behavior similar to Loki of Norse mythology, represents the chaotic nature of humanity.
The downfall of the sane man is in thinking that everyone else is sane as well. Not only does he torture and kill people, but when they found the naked girl zombie in the abandoned barn, am I the only one who assumed he was using her for sexual pleasure? He probably also killed his curly-haired buddy before arriving at the farm. They need to make a movie based on Goke. That would be frightening.
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