Tobias March
02-27-2008, 03:17 PM
See if you go have a look at the reviews on imdb...they're pretty vicious. (http://imdb.com/title/tt0876294/usercomments)
I can see why, it's a cheaply made, British zombie flick that happens to share the same premise as Romero's upcoming Diary of the Dead. Here we have a documentary crew traveling into the countryside round London investigating rumours of a zombie outbreak in Britain. Okay. It does not go well.
Then we cut to a second group of survivors and shortly after that we're introduced to a third. As the film progresses links between these three groups begin to emerge (converging on a zombie besieged farmhouse).
Now here's the thing, the acting is terrible in parts. The story is very evidently limited by the budget. The cutting back and forth between the three groups makes no sense at first, but even less than why there's one goomba in each group filming everything! (although the torchlight attached helps...surely batteries would be a concern).
But I'll be honest, it's probably a crap movie, but I don't feel like kicking it around. It disturbed the hell out of me while I was watching it. Afterwards the logic gaps presented themselves, but during I wasn't paying so much attention to them.
Romero's getting poor reviews for his Diary film...I hope he manages something better.
I can see why, it's a cheaply made, British zombie flick that happens to share the same premise as Romero's upcoming Diary of the Dead. Here we have a documentary crew traveling into the countryside round London investigating rumours of a zombie outbreak in Britain. Okay. It does not go well.
Then we cut to a second group of survivors and shortly after that we're introduced to a third. As the film progresses links between these three groups begin to emerge (converging on a zombie besieged farmhouse).
Now here's the thing, the acting is terrible in parts. The story is very evidently limited by the budget. The cutting back and forth between the three groups makes no sense at first, but even less than why there's one goomba in each group filming everything! (although the torchlight attached helps...surely batteries would be a concern).
But I'll be honest, it's probably a crap movie, but I don't feel like kicking it around. It disturbed the hell out of me while I was watching it. Afterwards the logic gaps presented themselves, but during I wasn't paying so much attention to them.
Romero's getting poor reviews for his Diary film...I hope he manages something better.