FountainPen Here we have yet another piece of garbage posing as a real motion picture. There are quite a lot of reviews giving high ratings, presumably penned by members of the cast and crew. One, which rates this abortion 9, is headed "Excellent Zombie film is way better than most out there."... what a laugh! There are only about half a dozen crazed people in this film. By NO means can it be considered a "zombie film". It is an amateurish failure, badly acted and filmed, apparently with some kind of green filter to try to trick us somehow. I award this thing 2/10 because there actually are some "movies" which are worse AVOID IT !!!

kingsgo4th I understand that most thrillers whether it be supernatural, sci-fi or just good old-fashioned killer-thrillers are generally not big budget films. But really, while I give the actors and make-up people credit, I've grown weary of so many thrillers taking place in isolated, claustrophobic or single-property (such as the stables/farm in this one). The actors manage to sustain being in a terrified state to a point, but the terror becomes blunt and the many foreboding stable doors that we pass by over and over (literally) become tiresome. The part where the rifle-toting young man goes out of the stable and forgets to lock it behind him knowing there's zombies near the ranch is like me telling you there's a killer around and you leave your doors unlocked. It defies the human factors of terrible fear and self-preservation. To cover this over-used mistake of not locking the door on the way out, all they had to depict was him pushing in the hasp and after he walked away, we see it didn't snap in and re-opened. That's how you avoid depicting the hero as brainless. Big budgeted thrillers like World War Z may not be the answer to better horror films, but it certainly kept up suspense on a worldwide scale of unrelenting nightmare, and it's conclusion took place in a building. The whole film didn't have potential victims running and screaming in one area. I'm glad low-budget producers have found so many available old buildings, asylums, hospitals and stables to film in but the obvious money-saving locations become tedious, especially when the cast runs down their corridors over and over...and over...and over.... And can someone please stop the lights from flickering on cue. Enough! Pay the electric bill!

Leofwine_draca Although low-budget zombie movies are ten a penny these days and, it's fair to say, the majority of them are absolute rubbish, STATE OF EMERGENCY offers something a little different. For a start, it looks like a professional, well-made movie despite the low budget; it has great production values and it avoids being cheesy for the most part.Of course, there's a flip side to this coin, and the main detraction with the film is that it's incredibly slow. There are lots and lots of long, drawn-out sequences where the protagonist just barricades himself inside a building and waits...and waits...and waits. Some viewers might find this off-putting, although I found that the tension levels were high, which kept me watching.The acting isn't bad, and pretty good for a B-movie, and as mentioned the technical values are decent. The zombies themselves are fast-moving and ultra-aggressive, much like the ones in 28 DAYS LATER, and the scare sequences are well handled. STATE OF EMERGENCY is far from perfect, and one of the disappointments is that the ending just fizzles out instead of bangs, but in a sea of trash watching it is a nice surprise.

jennifers_collection Acting was sub par, opening scene was slow and really set the mood for the whole movie. Slow. There was a huge lack of "zombies" if that's what you want to call them. There was not much emotion and you barely learned anything about the characters. The time frame of this movie was also ridiculous. I don't think it was even really a life or death situation for these characters as long as they stayed hidden. Maybe two weeks at most? Also it seemed the actors/actresses showed up to work, read their script and repeated them out loud and their day was done. I know this is minor but they called the soldiers in the movie marines. While they were clearly Army. That not a detail that should be overlooked.