MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Motompa Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Woodyanders Mike (a sturdy and credible performance by Dean Chekvala) and his wife Kim (a fine and touching portrayal by Amy Cale Peterson) are a young married couple who hole up in a remote cabin in the woods in the wake of a zombie outbreak. However, Mike must venture outside into the dangerous world and leave Kim by herself on a daily basis after their supplies begin to dwindle. Director/co-writer Ben Wagner ably crafts a suffocating claustrophobic atmosphere that makes the viewers feel like they are trapped in the cramped cabin along with the two desperate main characters. Moreover, Wagner astutely captures the overwhelming hopelessness of the bleak situation and brings a wrenching poignancy to the gripping premise by relating it on a small intimate scale, with Kim's gradual descent into madness in particular packing a potent emotional punch. The strong acting by the two leads further keeps this picture humming. While the slow pace and lack of cheap jump-out-at-you jolts will tax the patience of fright film fans expecting a standard formula scarefest, anyone else with a taste for slow-burning psychological suspense should appreciate this nice little sleeper's admirably smart and subtle approach to the zombie horror genre.

macguffin54 Very vague, minor spoilers. First, there are zombies in this movie. Only 2 (well, 3, maybe 4), and they are only on screen mainly for a very brief flashback, but they are there. But beyond that I think this could have been a decent little movie. The acting isn't great, but it serves its purpose. The problem is not much happens to string the movie along to its conclusion. I think, perhaps, if they made the subplot with the baby even slighter bigger (or even slightly less implied and more direct) it would have given the movie more depth. And if there had been a bigger "to-do" outside at the end, where they actually could have had a full action/dramatic scene rather than a quick jolt. The movie wasn't about scares, anyway. So why end that way and take away one of the few opportunities to show something happening (other than her opening the front door)?

draciron The script for this movie was probably excellent, the execution should have been taken out and shot. The movie is about a pandemic of some sort leaving a couple isolated and trapped in a remote cabin in the woods while it unfolds. When I say unfolds I use the term loosely as the movie gets stuck very early and the over use of flash backs causes it to drag on and on. Attempts to create emotional connection just leave you bored at best. They come far too late in the movie, you are saying OK already I got it 30 minutes ago, what happens next? The problem is nothing happens for a very long time. The positive reviewers of this movie are the ones who do not get it. The movie spells out the ending with blinding clarity but for some reason many people want to make it into more. The ending was never meant to be more than a culmination. There IS NO discovery, no revelation. No insight into the nature of mankind or deeper hidden meaning. The script was meant to be a journey not a destination. I cannot be more specific without giving away the movie, but suffice it to say that the director missed the point of the movie and irrevocably damaged it in the process. They thought they were being clever but instead it took the heart out of what could have been a very good movie.

sgcim There have been so many zombie movies made that I usually stop watching them after thirty minutes on streaming Netflix because many of them are the same basic story over and over again. Dead Within offered a new twist on the zombie genre without having to resort to either gore, or supposedly ironic humor.Zombie comedies were novel for a while, but the novelty soon wore off after you've seen a few of them. Dead Within was a psychological drama modeled on Polanski's Repulsion, and offered two good performances by the leads, good direction, good writing and improvisation by the two leads, and fine camera work. There's an official website for the movie that has a six part web prequel, a number of fake and real news articles about the CINS Virus, fake Twitter messages detailing the back story of the film, youtube messages by the 'Skull Monkey, and even a manga version. One clue to the plot that no one seemed to have noticed was when the female lead was playing the guitar for a brief scene- the guitar had no strings on it!