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entertaining indie with some problems

posted 13 years ago by eastwoodbound
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Seems like I just watched it at the same time as everyone else. Here are my thoughts:

The Good:

- Original story. First zombie film I've seen that had the weapon of choice be a sword instead of a gun.

- Effects - considering its an indie and not spiderman, they were pretty good. I just watched Blood the movie and the fx in that were alot cheesier than this film.

- Since everyone was calling this Twilight, I was starting to fear it would act like it but it showed the blood and had some pretty disturbing scenes which I get off on.

- It promised from the trailer lots of zombies and it delivered them and all kinds of other cool demons.

-Brad Dourif - 'nuff said!

Okay before overly getting people hyped, The Bad:

- Hated the lead actress, Sara. *beep* she annoyed the hell out of me and I found myself rooting for her death, sorry guys.

- I got a little confused with some of the flashbacks and actually found myself just wanting to skip back to the present.

- Some of the scenes felt too rushed. Lack of budget?

Overall analysis. I give it a B to B-. It didn't have the greatest acting but what do you expect for this genre. The effects were good though considering it was an indie. And as I read in other comments, it delivered the goods unlike films like Monsters which lacked monsters, LOL. Certain scenes didn't work but others I loved like the fighting a hundred zombies scene. So I watched the trailer and got exactly what I expected plus a little extra due to the additional gore.

[–] rollingstone58 13 years ago

Best part of the movie was the last 20 minutes with all the zombie fighting (the one battle scene is kind of like The Matrix meets 300 on a lower budget....but still quite epic) and the last battle between Jacob and Mathias. Brings back memories of Highlander.

Nice that this movie didn't sell out like all other Hollywood movies with a PG-13 rating but I wish the whole move was straight action. I could do without the small town family.

[–] Devils_Mentor 13 years ago

lol... the best part of the movie was the last few seconds right after the credits, when the screen turned black!

"Nice that this movie didn't sell out like all other Hollywood movies with a PG-13 rating"

lol... didn't sell out!? It didn't have to! Everything about the movie, including the SFX was such SH!T that it was impossible to take seriously...

DM

"" luoS siH eM dloS liveD ehT ""

[–] eastwoodbound 13 years ago

LOL calm down. That was my opinion. What type of sfx were you comparing it with? Well it can't hold up to Sucker Punch or Transformers because its an INDIE. But I saw a ton of other indie films that it beat by far in comparision such as the following:

Blood the Last Vampire
Dylan Dog
Bitchslap
Zombie Strippers
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus

Also an R rating did allow it to be far more creative. Apparently you're taking this way too personally.

[–] Devils_Mentor 13 years ago

I respect you opinion, I was just rebutting with mine ;)

I started fast forwarding it when Jacob cut off one of the zombies legs when they first get to the church. No follow through with the CGI... just everything! I really can't come up with anything to compare it to right now, but this was 360° of FAIL!!!

DM

"" luoS siH eM dloS liveD ehT ""

[–] eastwoodbound 13 years ago

Oh dude, that was awesome, what do you mean? That was one of the coolest parts of the film. I wish they had had more legs and arms falling off. All I'm saying is you should compare with other indie films, not Battle LA or Twilight. That film cost 37 million. You should compare with Monsters which as mentioned numerous times had like the same budget but only had 10 minutes of them in the end.

[–] scarecrowmute 13 years ago

I'm no sfx guy but I loved that part with the leg coming off. What did I miss about that scene? Are you an fx person just out of curiosity? Maybe you saw something I didn't.

I worked hard for this I need nobody

[–] rollingstone58 13 years ago

Did you even watch the last 20 minute of the movie? I fast forwarded through about 30 minutes of the middle and watched the last 20 minutes about three times thus far.

No follow through with the cgi? Huh? Maybe the town parts had weak cgi but you're telling me that you expect cgi creatures in a country house/farm town. Did you even get the premise of the movie?

[–] bobmichigan1 13 years ago

You have to be able to make through the first 30 minutes to enjoy the last 30...Bottom line it was a terrible movie with even worse acting. If you have 90 minutes to waste on a movie this would be it

[–] ghostphace 13 years ago

Why would you watch a movie for this for it's acting? That's like watching Men In Black for acting. This is a popcorn flick. The beginning was slow and confusing but the end more than made up for it. What I want back is my two and a half hours wasted on Avatar. That film was a sham..great vfx but it didn't deserve to be in the Oscar race.

[–] peteranderson975 13 years ago

The film had these actors in it and they were saying things that were written to be said.
They weren't dancers dancing or singers singing.

If the actors can't convince you that they are living in story being portrayed you'd be as well just watching a slideshow

You might have low expectations, others do not share them

[–] jonbyrnefu 12 years ago

why does no one involved in this movie know how to pronounce necromancer? chucky dude is awesome obviously but other than that this is one of the worst movies ive ever seen...

[–] scifisam 11 years ago

"Why does no one involved in this movie know how to pronounce necromancer?"

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one asking this. That was kinda annoying.

The movie was a little tough to watch through the first half or so, but I had every intention of stopping part way through (as it was getting late) and it got interesting enough that I didn't. And I have to admit, I've seen Elaine Hendrix play a bitch in way too many movies to not enjoy her turning into a zombie.

In fact, the quality went up right about the time Jacob stops having to drag around Sarah. Maybe if he had just took the necklace and stashed her somewhere immediately, the whole movie would have been entertaining?