It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Blistering performances.

Matthew (Tim Mcgill Grieveson) lives by himself in a self sufficient post zombie apocalypse era. He spends his time burning bodies and trying to contact people by radio. A stranger (Stuart Wolfenden) comes to his isolated "fortress" only to pass out. Mathew reads zombie stories from the stranger's book which comprises much of the film. The first episode concerns the rural beginnings of the zombie issue as a cowboy looking fellow with hat and spurs emerging from a grave as an anti-Christ or something (the explanation tried to be religious without being religious) and starts the zombie craze in a nation that doesn't have a Second Amendment designed to protect the general population from such things.The second story is in a small city during the peak of the outbreak and the third concerns the beginning of a remote survivalist group. As always in such tales, the fourth story concerns the story teller.My biggest fear of obtaining this DVD (Walmart $9.96) was that the three tales would be parts of other films, or worse, a hand held camera running and screaming in the dark. That was not the case. The zombies were decently made up with a Tor Johnson looking guy who seemed to be on the screen more than George Clooney in a George Clooney film. The stories circled back with minor irony. However on the down side there was no character development. Most characters are alive for 20-30 minutes of screen time before they stick their arms up in the air and start dragging their feet.The zombie direction seemed to be a bit off. Their movement was hit and miss. Sometimes they attack, other times they ignore. In one scene a little zombie girl has her hands down and is just standing in front of a human, then after the camera pans away and comes back, she suddenly has her arms up in zombie attack mode. The motion was awkward.Parental Guidance: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Works as a rental.

A friend and I recently caught this at Grimmfest in Manchester and could not believe they were screening it; to say it is low budget is an understatement as this is closer to home movies for production values (and I've seen better acting in Syfy originals)The scenes in between the three stories were the 'highlight' for want of a better word - they obviously had the most effort go into them and the opening section was pretty promising, it looked well shot and as if it would lead into a different type of horror movie to the usual fare. Then we cut to the stories...These 3 stories were badly acted, badly shot, badly written, and just bad. There is no other way to put it. The reviews about this being thoughtful because a zombie remembered his child clearly overlook how truly terrible every other aspect of the film was. I can only assume that the 78 10/10s that are currently keeping this film up at 7.4 are from cast and crew because no-one could ever watch this film and find it good let alone flawless.

I was fortunate enough to attend the premiere on 7th September and thoroughly enjoyed this film.    Three stories cleverly interlinking with each other which had me trying to guess how the story would unfold. I even started to build a rapport with some of the characters, albeit unlikely ones and was egging them on .. Naturally not going to give anything away now!   This film is deemed a low budget film, it sure doesn't give that impression to me as the editing and music were 1st class.  Various locations were used as well as a decent sized cast who clearly were giving it their all. The only negative aspect, which isn't really one is that I wanted it to be longer, I didn't want it to end.   Could there be a sequel? .. Yes please says me! ... You will not be disappointed, go see it!

Aesthetically stunning movie, set around diverse and interesting characters.Set in a post-apocalyptic world over run with zombies being led by a dark mysterious and demonic character.Man-kinds days are numbered as the unstoppable force of darkness continues to rip through society as we know it.(Not many, if any will survive) Beautifully shot, with some great effects and make up. with an amazing score by Robert Wingfield and some cracking performances with two dead mans shoes actors and a CBBC presenter included in the cast. Loved the characters of Matthew, Cal, Big S, Alex. This is a low budget movie but it really dose not show i have seen big budget films with less production values and if i was told this was shot on a budget of a million i would not bat an eyelid. The Eschartrilogy is definitely worth a watch!No zombie film collection is complete without this movie.