It looks very much as if it was shot by amateurs. This is a deliberate effect but not that attractive to look at. It looks like something I shot on mini DV when I was a teenager. Surprisingly this is far more believable as an amateur film than Romero's Diary of the Dead (2007) although less entertaining. Minimalistic and often empty soundscapes fit the amateur style of the film but it is hardly awe inspiring although the sound effects are realistic. The acting was another amateur aspect of the film but unlike the other areas it does not add to the movie, it takes away. The direction was very basic. What story? Zombies take over Britain and it is captured by real people with real cameras. With such a simple story the pace is very slow. If there was more story then this might have worked. It was too boring to entertain.
... View MoreWith the world ravaged by a deadly virus, a group of filmmakers out in the British countryside doing a story on the events finds a small group of survivors and join up in order to stay alive but soon find a far more dangerous threat than the zombies may be among them.Overall this one wasn't that great of an effort but does have some positives. One of the film's main issues is the fact that there's just so few zombie attacks throughout here that it really drags and lets itself go into spells of extremely bland and dull moments for way too much of the running time. The fact that this one takes a while to get to the village for the first attack is a real shame, and with the seemingly endless wandering around in the car or getting instructions for their trip that it really tends to go from extremes bouncing around in the plot. Likewise, that gets enhanced later on with the constant jumping around in terms of the timeline that this supposedly covers with it never really making any kind of sense what's going on with the film going on through weeks or months at a time before there's anything of note involving them encountering the creatures as the preference on defense and avoidance gives this one the feeling of pure aimlessness as it doesn't really follow through any kind of set patterns in what's going on as it just goes from one piece to another without really doing much of any kind of connection around these events. That also goes hand-in-in-hand with the film's biggest flaw which is the utterly deplorable and inexcusably bad found-footage angle here which just looks completely amateurish and just dreadful here with this one filling in just about every single negative factor hurled at the genre in one place. The jerkiness of the camera is non-stop making this one such a struggle to even make out what's happening in the regular scenes but the action scenes are truly a lost cause in here not only being so haphazardly jerking around in the way they're shot as to be headache-inducing but are oftentimes out-of-focus so nothing is effectively captured or shown, the tracking on the camera makes the picture blurry or not even comprehensible at times and there's nothing more infuriating about this one than being in the middle of a zombie attack that's been edited into indecipherability by the inabilities placed into the finished film by its chosen method of production. As well, the concepts' other underlying flaw in this one being filled with scenes that shouldn't be filmed as trying to preserve a camera at that time instead of themselves really undermines a lot of what's happening here, and these here are what really hold this one down considerably. The fact that the zombies are considered threats and have plenty of continuous action scenes here requiring lots of action to put them down is a big deal of compensation, as there's a lot to like that way with the lumbering creatures closing in on them in some decent action scenes. The quantity is enough to raise it, but not enough to overcome the flaws.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.
... View Morei have seen too many rubbish zombie movies lately the worst two bieng 'armageddon of the dead' and 'night of the living dead 3d:reanimation', those two movies were so bad, this movie was a breathe of fresh air, very well made, and with a great realism and atmospheric look, and is in my opinion one of the better 'found footage' films, and i kid you not some of the most realistic zombie action you'll ever see, the make and sfx are top notch, and the acting is above average for a found footage movie, and a zombie movie, i cant believe all the negative reviews for this movie, its a living joke, its a good zombie movie, and the low budget works in its favour, i recommend this movie to fans of zombie movies, especially uk horror cinema
... View MoreThe worst zombie movie ever created.... Horrible, I wish i had the courage to gouge my retinas out, had I not passed out from boredom. The first 5 minutes of the movie started out OK, then it just went to boring Hell from then on, needless to say, I did not finish the movie- I thought it more productive to register to a movie website and write my first review on a movie to WARN anyone thinking of renting this waste of a production they call a horror movie.Special effects? What is that? I've seen better zombie make-up on kids during Halloween. Plot? Halfway through the movie, I was still clueless on what the plot was. Had I anything nice to say about this movie- is that England has beautiful gardens.
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