I realize that this is a tired accusation, as it gets thrown around a lot, but the review seems to indicate that this is some movie-making triumph.
It's better than most direct-to-video horror, but it's nothing you haven't seen a hundred times before. The justification for the plot is scattershot, and it's simply too cheap looking to be scary.
The reason it gets thrown around alot is because it is usually true. This is no exception. Check out the first review:
"I haven't seen anything this good zombie wise in years and I've seen them all, well 411 zombie films to be precise...This film is a must see for zombie fans, not just a recommendation."
Extremely laughable. This movie is not a "must see" for zombie fans or anyone else This is a low tier movie only one step above sh!t tier nobudget flicks and syfy movies. The movie as it stands now is a 4.9 and keep in mind the first rush of reviews are almost always biased for the film. I'd say 10 years from now this movie will hover around a "3".
It's certainly not the worst zombie movie I've ever scene , but a long way from the best. It's OK for a Halloween night. Something to play in the background while making party food for kids until you play the really scary stuff.
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Yes, I saw it based on the cast also and was hoping it would be good. It wasn't. Looks like we have a new category of zombie though - Zombie Bodybuilders...looks like they lift weights between snacking on low carb/high protein bodies.
shareIt wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. It's better than most of the junk we've been getting lately. But there really isn't much plot. The zombies are pretty good, though.
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I realize that this is a tired accusation...
Hey dirtyDmagee, haven't see you around the horror boards lately, you have a good point, mainly being that I was THE 1st person to review this oh so horrible film and yea man I gave it a f'king 10, I f'king loved it, out of all my horror reviews this film was the first that I ever gave that good of a review, which of course is biased by the creators right? Damn I didn't realize I broke into the f'king film business, When do I get paid!?! All these sad whiny cun!s don't have a clue about indie horror man, newbs w/zero experience in watching low budget genre films, trolls that don't even qualify to be called fans. Posers that have absolutely no idea on the quantity of low quality films that get released or they would be able to identify the good films that rise above the sh!t pile.
And to the pathetic dickheads up near the top of this thread, yea the zombie list is below where it has been for months, take a gander & then go back to jacking off to your The Dark Knight Rises poster.
Oh & DDM this film is definitely worth a look. Ignore the cun!s
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This was not a troll thread. The difference between the ridiculously positive review and the movie I saw was rather astounding. As I said, this wasn't a 1-star movie at the bottom of the direct-to-video heap, but it was cheap, flimsy, not in the least bit scary, and simply nothing to get remotely excited about - particularly if you're a real fan of the genre, as you probably are.
But let's be reasonable:
>> I haven't seen anything this good zombie wise in years and I've seen them all, well 411 zombie films to be precise.
Seriously? Even as hyperbole this is absurd. This is a cookie cutter low budget zombie movie. If it were a movie I directed as my first major film, I'd even be proud of it for what it accomplishes within its limitations, but as a viewer, it's definitely "bottom 25%" material. Not "OMG THE WORST MOVIE EVER", but certainly nothing a zombie fan with "411 zombie films" under his belt would get excited about.
>> The genre was really starting to wear on my patience with one failure after another. It's been quite a while since I've seen a Z. genre film where everything was just right, where the story is original(plot wise) and the production value was spot on.
The production values are part of the problem. The movie looked cheap and as a result, it simply wasn't scary. If this represents getting the "production value spot on", then one is simply a completely uncritical viewer, or a shill.
>> As a matter of fact this is the first review I've ever given to a film that I've felt without a doubt deserved to get a 10/10, take into account I judge horror films against other horror films ,zombie films against other zombie films unlike most.
Seriously? 10/10? With a fresh perspective of "judging zombie films against other zombie films unlike most" as if most of the rest of us aren't capable of such discriminating tasks?
>> This film is a must see for zombie fans, not just a recommendation. Finally a film that puts forth a little terror into terrifying and breaths a little new life into the somewhat deflated zombie genre.
This movie is exactly an example of a deflated me-too genre film.
I'm certainly not expecting everyone to have the same taste as me - and thank goodness for that because that allows me to re-examine my tastes, or start enjoying other things I didn't think I'd care for, and having intelligent thoughtful reviews is helpful. Like you, I do get tired of people claiming "shill review", but the disconnect between what I read and what I saw was so great that it finally dawned on me that maybe a small minority of these claims of "shill reviews" were actually legitimate.
None of the above is meant in any disrespect to you or even the people involved with the film, but at the end of the day, the project has to be judged on its own merits.
You sure wasted a lot of breath man but let's see, right from the gate I'm gonna make it clear that this is all my opinion based on my viewing of thousands & thousands of films.
"Seriously? Even as hyperbole this is absurd. This is a cookie cutter low budget zombie movie. If it were a movie I directed as my first major film, I'd even be proud of it for what it accomplishes within its limitations, but as a viewer, it's definitely "bottom 25%" material. Not "OMG THE WORST MOVIE EVER", but certainly nothing a zombie fan with "411 zombie films" under his belt would get excited about. "
This wasn't a cookie cutter type of zombie film, it's inventive in it's form and was great for being done on a next to nothing budget. If you watched the films in my list you would already know this, but as I already knew you didn't, you don't sound like you have the experience to judge anything except for maybe wide release films or major D2D film, I don't just watch zombie films I watch every horror/thriller that comes out & a lot of them that don't even make it out for distribution. If you had checked my profile you would already know this, as I have everything on display for all, none of that private sh!t that most have. You do know how to find the page containing my profile information right?
"The production values are part of the problem. The movie looked cheap and as a result, it simply wasn't scary. If this represents getting the "production value spot on", then one is simply a completely uncritical viewer, or a shill.
Again IMO for the film's budget the production value far surpassed the quality of hundreds of other films with the same budget, And again you say "uncritical reviewer" which makes you out to be seriously ignorant, if you looked at any of my 70 reviews, I've grinded most films to a pulp in them so much so that I've grown tired of the whole process. If you can't come to grips with the fact that someone that knows their sh!t front to back & side to side having a difference of of opinion on one film I have really not sh!t else to say
And yes most of "you" are not capable of such discriminative tasks, using "you" in a broad stroke, I spend hours a day on this site & when I'm not on it I'm watching film, I don't have to work so my free time is immense to say the least. In this time I've come to know a great deal about people's thoughts & opinions, what info is valuable & what is not. In the horror genre the average rating of all of the films combined overall is MUCH MUCH lower than every single other genre by a long shot, there are more useless & incapable people than there is good by a 70/30 split. I just happened to like this particular film a lot, Sh!t Happens
That's about all the argumentative sh!t I'm going to waste my time on for a single film as I really do have much more productive sh!t to do
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There's no need to get personal, but if you defend this review, I guess we're at an impasse. At least we agree almost perfectly about Dollhouse.
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Obviously it's not an argument shining for it's originality. If the Zombies would not have been so obvious, I don't know. Maybe more shadows, less shots of monsters where you can see them so clearly, maybe... would have been much better. Also I have noticed about lacks of originality in camera's perspective... However I liked it. Taking into account that it is a low budget film. Katharine Isabelle acting is awesome as always. The edition of the film was very bad too-
shareThis movie IS bad. The music score is terrible and does not make any sense.
The rating now 4.7 is way off. It should get something like a 3.4.
Why do bad movies even get made? What is the point exactly?
I could not watch on from the point that the woman got bit.
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Hey to any one that reads this thread, the OP is totally right about the unrealistic reviews for this film, it is garbage, through and through. The poster Thrill_KillZ likes to run off at the mouth about how this is a 10, well if he isn't a crew member of this film, than he is most certainly a moron. Don't waste your time with 13 Eerie it is trash, no amount of familiar faces can change that, go watch a syfy movie, its the same quality crap(13 Eerie may have a bit more gore, that's it). I'd compare it to Route 666, except that Route 666 was at least somewhat amusing, and had tank girl.
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