Wizard-8 Though it's clear that this zombie movie (or any other zombie movie for that matter) got some inspiration from George A. Romero's "Living Dead" movies, there is also a sizable dash of "The Road Warrior" mixed in here. Actually, the movie doesn't take TOO much from those two sources, and manages for much of the running time to do its own thing... and not too badly, I must add. While the script does have a few flaws - like the underwritten alpha zombie character, which could have used more explanation - the script does manage to engage thanks to some competent characters and a few developments in the story that you may not be expecting. While the direction and the editing does occasionally confuse, the action (which keeps coming at a regular clip) does manage to stir the blood and be exciting at times. The movie also looks pretty good for what was a low budget, with some well chosen locations as well as some good set design and decoration. And it's always nice to see Lance Henriksen, even if by now he is looking quite old and weathered. What we end up with is a solid zombie movie. It's no classic, but it does manage to stand out from a genre that for the most part has become now really tired and familiar for the most part.

bornskeptic If you love the zombie apocalypse movie (and the subgenre of vampire apocalypse movie) then you will love this thing. Massive amounts of gunplay with big guns used by men with big muscles in military type get ups, supported natch by pretty gurls and vintage muscle cars. All good stuff. Unfortunately, it's really not that good once you get under the surface and past the above trappings. There are 2 or 3 clearly professional actors with Lance Henrickson, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, and one of the Mandylors. It is clear they are actors because the rest of them are pretty awful. Especially the lead 'Brooding Anti-hero' named, believe it or not, "Johnny Strong". I guess since he was a producer and maybe did the music for free, they gave him the biggest role. And the music is actually one of the highlights. The sfx is not bad, production values strong, cool setting, and vampiric zombies menacing. Except it is clear there are only like a dozen or so actual zombies despite the heroes killing like 500 of them with seemingly endless gun clips they rarely ever change out. And the scenes in the two high rises are nonsensical as the meat eaters seem to come at our protagonists from above and below, forward and behind...when they came originally from the lower level. I've played FPS games that made more sense. But the camerawork is excellent and editing even better. Really better than this type movie usually gets. Conceptually it's pretty stale....the loner coming in to save the day has been flogged to death going back to Clint Eastwood's early movies, particularly Pale Rider. But again, it's a genre pic so fans won't care. So, the story is meh, sfx passible, acting hit-or-miss, action scenes well executed and shot but incoherent, repetitive and eventually monotonous. Worst of all...not memorable. And not one i would want to see again.

michelb-83-46554 It's on a budget and cinematography is fine. They chose a style for photography, camera work is good so you can watch this flick and not feel it low budget actually.However, characters are one dimensional and stereotypical. You won't feel attached to any of them which in a zombie movie can be good, people die, but you won't care much neither.The plot isn't smart, it borrows the two main ideas from two other famous movies in this genre you most certainly have already seen. It also suffer probably by some cuts that left out some scenes that might have helped understand more. Sometimes you wonder a little what's happening. The movie also doesn't offer any background on what kind of apocalypse is and what are these human creatures that drop if shot in the chest not like zombies and burn in daylight like vampires. ???.All in all there's a lot of good action and we don't need a lot of plot to make a watchable genre's movie, but bad characters and boring although scarce dialogues make this movie a little uninteresting and 20 minutes too long.

ikeybabe This zombie-vampire combo flick had plenty of action - lots of gunfire, blood-spurts, gore, screams and knife-play! It was fun and entertaining and exactly what someone viewing this type of movie would expect. The zombie-vampire things are fast - really fast. And just to make things a bit more complicated, there's an Alpha zombie-vampire-thing that can direct the other zombie things. So, yeah, that was pretty ridiculous, but whatever. The script was well done, the action scenes really well done and the acting was good - except for Ms. Chelsea Edmundson. She was just awful, really awful. She should find a new career because acting is not her thing at all. Everyone else - good job. And, yes, there was the obligatory shot of Johnny Strong's muscled-chest! That gym membership is paying off dude. Overall, a satisfying zombie-vampire flick and if there is a sequel I would watch that too!!