Strictly average movie

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Load of rubbish!!

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I am someone who has loved zombie movies since I saw Night of the Living Dead when I was 11 years old (more than 35 years ago). This is definitely in the tradition of the best films in this genre. Just like in the early Romero films, the focus is on how we as human beings respond to the zombie apocalypse. It's not an action film, and if you like World War Z you're probably not going to enjoy it. But if you're smart, and want to see some really great and insightful character development, great acting - all backed by a great soundtrack - then you'll love it. And not to undersell the horror. No spoilers, but the long scene in the car is one of the most seriously frightening things I have ever seen. Not all fancy special effects, but real terror if you have a half decent ability to project yourself into the scene.Hats off to Gardner and Cronheim - to make this for $6K makes the Night of the Living Dead budget of $60,000 (in 1968) look lavish. Watched it twice at least, and if you crowd fund any new horror movies I'm sending in some cash.

This seems to be one of those horror movies that really polarizes the audience. I guess, in many ways, you could say that's true of most of the horror genre, but some movies seem to really push the divide among the audience.On one hand, I've read many really positive reviews of this movie, not just from places like HORRORHOUND and FANGORIA, but on the boards and reviews as well. Then, check out a site like NETFL*X and skim the reviews and it's full of one stars proclaiming this to be the most boring zombie movie ever. After watching this movie, I think that my opinion is that both sides are probably exaggerating their view a little too much. Those who love this movie would have you believe that it's some indie horror triumph, a classic of character study. I think, at times, it just becomes hip to praise a movie because others said it was good. Yes, I think that the two actors in this movie did an excellent job for a low-budget chiller. I did think that the director (and one of the stars) did an admirable job of building the relationship of these characters through the course of the film. That doesn't, though, excuse the fact that vast patches of this movie contain nothingness. That is not to say that I'm totally on board with those who would have you believe this is a boring failure. There are always going to be fringe zombie fans who hear "good zombie movie" and expect THE WALKING DEAD. This is not a movie that the average blood and guts fan is going to enjoy. There is little zombie interaction, almost no gore and little action. The viewer has to appreciate a movie with a little more of an artistic leaning, but with all of that said, the movie spends far too much time dwelling in its' characters that little ever happens to make this movie memorable. A huge chunk of the run-time feels like someone's home movie of their vacation to the zombie apocalypse. It's just two guys wandering around, listening to headphones and playing baseball. I can appreciate a movie that wants to take time to develop, but I need certain beats along the way. I need to be propelled into feeling like something is truly developing. Instead, I found myself checking my Twitter account now and then because all I was missing was another shot of one of the characters munching on an apple or staring into space while bad indie rock plays.I'm giving it a 6 because my rating system says that 5 is average, and I believe that this is slightly above that mark. I give it a lot of credit for trying something and I think that the director has a future. Like most young directors, though, he needs to learn that being an intelligent movie is not always enough because, in the end, we all watch movies to be entertained foremost and this most didn't do that enough for me.

This movie is so bad, I had to turn it off before it really ended. I got this because of a review in one of my favorite magazines, who praised it. This movie is horrible.Two guys, playing catch during a Zombie apocalypse? Arguing about Fishing? I started fast forwarding about 20 minutes in, just to see if there was ANYTHING worth looking at. For reviewers in these magazines to praise this 'thing' makes me wonder of the corruption in film making. I mean there HAD to be a payoff or something to make anyone think that this was a good movie.I love horror, I love Zombies, I love well made independent horror films, but this>? no thank you.

Zombies are the most fun of all movie monsters, fun for a bunch of reasons. A crucial one is that the zombie world where humanity has been overturned and streets are empty is so malleable and so easy to explore and imagine. What would you do? The zombie discussion over drinks practically guides itself, invites a spontaneous storytelling.This film is one of those discussions that a group of friends turned into a film. Two guys walk around a zombie countryside somewhere in America trying to make do, encountering the occasional zombie(s). The result is guaranteed to be more organic than say a vampire saga; the makers didn't have to worry about the whole chronicle, it was enough for them to place themselves in the zombie world for improvised edges of life to follow.They don't bother with a story of explanations or longwinded scope, far more effective to convey the collapse is for one of them to simply turn on the car radio and get nothing but static.So this alone ensures it's interesting to watch but inbetween these moments of survival, there's empty time that has to be somehow filled and leaves room for an artistic self to come to the fore. And so while the limitations of the zombie world guide them to pluck some worthwhile scenarios, this artistic self that bridges them (and is about youth languishing with nothing to do) is merely cute.Every so often a different song plays over a montage of them sitting around or walking, probably the same indie songs the filmmakers like, lazy after a while because it's a short-term music video effect. And the whole last segment with the two of them trapped in a car, the zombies are here concealed and it becomes about the two of them hanging around, they get drunk, mop and fool around. You might as well imagine it as the livingroom where they bantered about what turned out to be this film, one of the two guys is actually the filmmaker.So the creative self shows here clearly in the midst of things, it always does. It's not dishonest, it's a snapshot of who these guys are, filling the gaps with what they would do, being dudes; it's just not interesting to watch.They only barely pull back at the last moment from a trite finale, probably realizing it would have been too cute even for them.