SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

paultagonist My first review of a movie...For fans of Max Brooks and/or conspiracy theorists.Night of the Living Dead's influence is no more obvious than when the character Jason says "Did you ever see that movie.. the black guy and the.. zombies? Those people in that house?" to character Frank Chambers. And Ken Edwards does do a good job as Frank Chambers, taking charge of a situation we think we know all too well: the zombiegeddon.No great special effects, but some nice thought-out strategy, if such an unlikely event were to ever occur. Seems the filmmakers didn't really have the money to pull off the battle scenes they needed, but the general atmosphere and mood is great. A bit more blood would've helped things along nicely.(A slight critique - if you're going to have a "personal video diary" throughout the film, why not make it shakycam so it doesn't seem the same quality as everything else?)

raypdaley182 OK, this film is straight into the bad special effects pretty much straight away with the really bad sound effects for the black guy in the car firing what are audibly obvious blank rounds.The people go from being ill to infected FAR too quickly for my liking (quite literally a matter of seconds!). Right, my 1st question. During the opening title sequence is there supposed to be no picture? Because as useful as that guy's narrative is, I'd have preferred to see what was happening.Yes, I understand they did it to save money but that shouldn't be an excuse. We have no explanation as to who the person he's carrying actually is or where she came from and he is far too free with his ammo in a handgun that normally only holds 15 rounds.One man organises the survivors he finds himself amongst. The soldiers sent to rescue him and his mystery woman are killed so he and 2 others are forced outside to collect key-cards from the bodies which will allow him to enter a bunker which is close by.We learn little bits about the monsters in the form of a video dairy that crops up now and then during the course of events. It turns out although they look dead and eat flesh these aren't classic zombies as just shooting them in the head won't kill them.I did like the very vague reference to "Night Of The Living Dead" but when the team are returning back where everyone else is sheltering I couldn't work out how the guy with the beard got injured (did someone shoot him by accident or was he bitten in the fraction of a second he was being held by the zombies?).I assume the mystery girl cured him after sucking blood from his chest wound and spewing it back into his mouth? We find out the "zombies" were infected by an airborne biological weapon called Series 14 and we're told the mystery girl IS the antidote to this virus.The film is incredibly slow for this kind of horror film, there are tiny segments of action but not much. It's incredibly thin on plot and far too thick on explanations and pacing isn't very good.There are far too many boring lulls between what little action there actually is. The video diary leads to a seemingly obvious conclusion that everyone inside the bunker their going to is already dead.Whilst walking a perimeter guard the ex Army girl finds a door open and bloody hand-prints on the floor, after securing the door she starts pulling open one of the boarded up windows for no explainable reason (I assume when she touched the blood she got infected). She also doesn't seem to struggle much when she's being pulled out of the window and despite having a fully loaded pistol only fires it once, even then that shot isn't at one of the monsters.The stoner guy freaking out and killing 3 monsters armed only with 2 knives is a bit surreal and he looks very weird afterwards (I'm fairly certain he was bitten as he was being attacked).The escape sequence is very over done and we go from having no action to having far too much. Why the mystery girl suddenly decides to just run into the monsters to get herself killed is not explained and seems pointless (yes, admittedly from the look in her eye she's insane but what she does is truly insane even by the standards of the insane).The route they take to get to the van seems too long and far too risky, they couldn't have planned something shorter and safer? The black guy dies in the van without ever having given them the codes so the 3 of them who are still alive and are driving to the bunker can't get in there anyway. Even if they could the mystery girl with the cure is dead.The key card did get them inside the bunker where the rather weird and extremely weak ending showed exactly what I'd previously predicted, only zombies inside the bunker and no-one else alive.A very weak low budget movie with little plot, extremely bad pacing and a very predictable ending. Best avoided even for zombie movie fans

XinXang I clicked the spoiler button just to avoid getting blacklisted, 'cause I'm not sure what exactly is considered a spoiler nowadays.In any event this film is obviously extremely low budget. It's shot with a cam or something, and the lighting and sound effects are never at any consistent level. Nevertheless, those involved make the most of the low budget they're working with, putting down a film which was compelling enough to keep me watching through to the end.It's of course extremely derivative, coming up with it's own take on the recent resurgence of zombie films in the last few years. I can actually imagine if this film got a professional re-write and a more experienced cast and crew, this would make for an entertaining bigger budget horror film, worthy of a series...

GutterJim Day X starts off fast with a single individual becoming enraged and killing a coworker without any explanation as to why. Soon afterwords a group of people in a parking garage become infected and attack our main character Frank Chambers. These attackers have not died and come back to life but it is explained later that an airborne virus scrambles the brain and affects the blood making those infected with it hunger for the flesh of the living.The locations used in Day X are very cool. You'll see a lot of run down industrial warehouse interiors and exteriors, and only a few lush garden like settings. I'm guessing they didn't have to build a set for this film at all. There are some locations used that could have been explored more but that may have taken away from the fast paced storyline. I don't like to give away the whole movie in written format but the story doesn't drag at any point in the movie, it does however end rather abruptly. Maybe that was the filmmakers intent to get a sequel in the works. The make up effects are good, some of the infected have a very nasty gory look while others have a quick dirty chimney sweep look.The CG is not pretty but it's very lightly used and not on screen long. Sound effects are a little fake towards the beginning of Day X but later on with shot guns and other louder guns they sound effects are perfect. Some of the actors are re-dubbed, not due to language differences but most likely due to on set audio issues. The dialog feels a little forced from some of the actors while others simply had too much foul language written for their character. The camera work is really professional for an indie film. The making of feature shows some of the lengths the camera men went took to get some really cool shots. Over all I enjoyed watching this mix of horror with sci-fi. I would recommend this to anyone that enjoyed Dead and Deader, 28 Days/Weeks Later or Undead.