If you can survive the first half hour, you'll probably be able to endure the balance of this dreadful cinematic effort. After a quite entertaining opening few action minutes and an irate Daniel Baldwin (yecchhh), the flick settles down into what appears to be a radio programme, with people just sitting around talking about nothing. These are people you will have zero empathy with -- vacant souls with no redeeming qualities. The gal "star" of this film has a coughing fit at one point which almost equals those of Hillary Clinton: this was a high point, believe it or not. The music! Oh! The music in this movie is ridiculous. Whoever chose it or created it needs to go back to school, along with all the actors and actresses, the scriptwriter, the director... well, you get the idea! As for the "lovemaking scene", dear dear me, how amateurish, how embarrassing, how laughable, ooh, aah, mmm... HA HA HA ! GIVE THIS A MISS!

I cannot believe I wasted my time watching this movie. The only scary part of this movie was realizing that I actually paid to see it. The script is child like, the direction is not even there, and which Baldwin is this, oh yeah the one they kept locked up in the basement. About two minutes into the movie I actually wanted to just gouge my eyes out, but I thought it has to get better I mean it could not get any worse. I was really wrong in these lines of thinking, I read the previous reviews on here and thought this might not be a bad movie. These reviews must be relatives of someone involved in the film because no competent person could possibly find anything thrilling about this film. PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!!!!!

A young woman running along a deserted road is pursued by men in black . She runs in to a woodlands and is shot by one of the men carrying a snipers rifle . As she lies dying in the snow she is then executed by a bullet After this more than adequate opening hook we cut to a university lecture room where a tutor discusses stem cell research: : Yet another morally ambiguous topic . Is it ever ethical to sacrifice one embryo to save ten , twenty , a hundred , a thousand individuals ? " He goes around class asking this question and the students are perplexed and indecisive about giving an answer . This is something fundamentally wrong about this reaction . We are talking about an embryo . Something that is not developed in to any human form . In other words it's not yet human and doesn't qualify as a human being . It's an embryo not a human so asking questions like sacrificing something in order to save other human beings as if it's the same equivalent as a human is a non sequiter .. You can guess this is an American film and one hopes that in real life the average American student is more cerebral than the muppets seen here who are no doubt registered with the more right wing elements of the Republican party I did perhaps notice a slight agenda with this film . One of those students then signs up for a medical experiment with an organisation calling itself " Systems and science " and they're the bad guys . There is of course nothing wrong with a horror film making political comments and I did enjoy 28 WEEKS LATER which featured an American taskforce repopulating a devastated land and then having to destroy it in order to save the wider international community . Hardly a subtle subtext but one that is recognisable and appreciated at the same time . As the characters of the experiment are introduced someone makes a joke about Noah but there's no blatantly faith good science bad soapbox shouting and I probably over analysed this a bit too much . It is of course a low budget indie horror thriller and the message carried is " trust no one especially where the government is concerned " . You've seen this type of idea before and because you've seen it so many times it's not stand out in any way and if you don't like horror movies you won't like this . It does manage to generate a few scary moments and meets expectations

I really enjoyed this film. I felt that it was a great Friday night flick. An entertaining film that gives you what you are looking for when you want to watch a thriller/scary movie with your buddies. Covers all the bases to engage you with the plot and characters. I don't think that the story line is new, however, I thought it was well written and the actors did a great job to capture my attention. After Effect has several great action scenes that have point of view shots that I thought were very cool and would make Michael Bay jealous. There were also these transition shots that brought you in from being a viewer to being apart of the experiment. Felt like that was extremely creative. A thriller film must have gruesome special effects to set it apart. When I watch an alien/zombie type movie, make up and effects, better be awesome to keep the story "real" and me believing. Now because of After Effect I have to ask myself how desperate in need of cash do I have to be in order to participate in a paid research study. Damn these movies and their psychological effects! NO spoilers here, see the movie!