I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

After watching the first Zombie Night (2003) I considered it one of the worst zombie movies I'd ever seen so my watching it's sequel was foolish. I have an insistence of watching full franchises and therefore I dived in expecting the worst.This is a brand new story with no connection to the first movie and in 3yrs they've clearly learnt a couple of things about film making. Sadly they haven't learnt enough and once again it's flawed at every turn.With a generic plot there is no point in me even describing you won't see anything you haven't seen before but you'll see it done in a decidedly incompetent way.Bad, bad, bad.The Good:Passable soundtrackThe Bad:Badly made in every respectSoundtrack often doesn't fit what's going onThings I Learnt From This Movie:Contaminating water by throwing zombie corpses in is perfectly logicalInstead of having a sex scene just have a lengthy scene of two people massaging each others butts

Dave Francis, who directs, does it again with his newest undead offering Awakening. This is another in his series of horror films. However, this is a much more ambitious attempt than his original indie Zombie Night. There are definitely more professional production values on display than in his earlier works. The cinematography, for one, is decent. His leads, Steve Curtis and Sharon DeWitt, turn in able performances. Dave Francis makes an appearance as the father. Kudos to the full-on zombie makeup artistry. This film, made on what would be considered a lower budget than the look of the film would belie, used hundreds of actors to portray undead zombies. Dave Francis has worked with a dedicated team to create his apocalyptic vision. This work owes a nod, as do so many in this genre, to the cinematic tradition inspired by the Ed Wood school of horror and suspense that later brought us Night of the Living Dead, which it owes much of its rehashed zombie styling to. Perhaps originality is lacking, but for those seeking their old-fashioned zombie fix without all the special effects of a larger budget film, this might do.

Awakening is yet another zombie movie that makes me wonder what its intention was supposed to be. You got the typical "people lost in zombietown" story with 2 gangs trying to survive and building themselves shelter from the zombies who strangely only come out at night. To make it more ridiculous they don't join forces but kind of fight each other which didn't make any sense to me like many other parts of this movie didn't. Many things in this movie are just thrown in the pot and stirred without any logical explanation... best example of the trashy script are the ridiculous sex scenes thrown in with some booby shots all in one passage. The zombies are standard, the gore is minimal, the acting is substandard and the sound of the movie in dialogs is bad. After all it could have been a typical trash-fest with some humor (like the ghettoboy with his cool slangtalk) and zombiegore. Unfortunately the staff couldn't decide which way to go and bored a long way along the road to end up nowhere pretty much. The first ending is as idiotic as in movies like "Stink of flesh" ... meaning it doesn't have an ending. And the added rapture scene is pretty funny, yet thrown into the movie like everything else. There's too many better or at least entertaining in a trashy way movies than this one, so better avoid Awakening.

Every once and awhile, you'll watch a film that will inspire you, entertain you, move you to tears, have you laughing out loud, and even raise from your seat and make you cheer. This is NOT one of those films. Aside from wishing/hoping that no one outside the people that were involved in the making of this film actually watched it, I'm ashamed this film so brazenly states it's Canadian roots.Everything about this film was substandard; the poor writing, cinematography, editing, make-up, and especially the acting. I appreciate the fact that you can't overkill another release in the zombie genre....no I take that back. This film did. A very bad release from another Romero wanna-be. Perhaps this would have been successful as a senior year student theatre play, but not as a film...even with a questionable budget. A waste of money, and 80 minutes of my life I'll never get back.