SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Organnall Too much about the plot just didn't add up, the writing was bad, some of the scenes were cringey and awkward,

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

splunge42-1 This might have been a decent character-driven film, if any of the characters were interesting or likable.But, the trio of main characters are dull, listless, and depressing.It often feels like you're missing part of the movie. The interesting parts. Or the parts with the plot.And then there are the constant and annoying flashbacks. They're done in such a way that they;re hard to follow and do little to advance the plot or give us any real interest in the characters.I understand that this is supposed to be a mood movie, but the characters and their motivations seem implausible at best and unbelievable at worst, the plot is nearly non-existent, and what little suspense coupled be achieved is lost from poor direction and pacing.Avoid this one.

mike_goyert604 I saw this titled in the movie store with a few festival nods printed on the front and thought it might be a good, indie, low-budget watch. How wrong I was. The writing/story, or lack there of, is drawn out, packed with dialogue that is there for the sake of having dialogue and allows for no surprises. This is fine because the repetitive score is, more often than not, drowning out the actors thick accents. We are supposed to invest ourselves in a meandering, rarely-active protagonist and a grumpy, tweaked out young lady who occasionally allows a small detail about her past to slip. Other than that, the story is told mostly through randomly placed flashbacks or when the characters directly explain their pasts to one another in one on one chats. The cinematography is clunky, jarring, and while the location is beautiful in a 'barren-farm-hills' sort of way, it becomes tiring, recycled and bleak. Any action sequences are too dark to see and the 'dead' are really just rambling, raving infected people who can't seem to climb fences, or pose any real threat at all. I tried to love this movie, then I tried even harder to like it, and as my last resort I attempted to see it as a minimalist film, but even that failed tremendously. The only aspect of this movie that I can give credit to is the overwhelmingly bleak and isolated tone it creates. But then again, that could have just been in my head as the credits rolled after what can only be described as a bad film. A bad movie is a bad movie and nothing about this flick escapes that label.

MBunge Some movies are so bad you can't help but wonder what the hell the filmmakers ever though they were doing. After watching The Dead Outside, I can only picture Kerry Anne Mullaney and Kris R. Bird sitting in an empty room and having the following conversation..."Let's make a movie like 28 Days Later, except we'll pick up the story long after all the exciting stuff has happened and just have the characters stand around and mumble to each other.""You're a genius! But let's also not explain any of the particular details of the story, fill it with fragmentary flashbacks to further muddle things up and then have a character lie on a sofa and describe the plot of what would essentially be a prequel to the film we're actually going to make.""I like where you're going but let's also have the storytelling and filmmaking get worse as the movie goes along. The dialog should become more insipid, the performances should go from minimalistic to practically coma-inducing, pieces of the plot should start to fall off like the film has leprosy and the editing must turn completely into crap.""The more you talk, the more excited I get about this project! I also think there needs to be an important scene where the soundtrack is so loud that no can understand what the actors are saying.""I couldn't agree more. It's like the two of us have only one brain!"After a neurological outbreak in Scotland which turned people into murderous, retarded hoboes, Daniel (Alton Milne) runs out of gas on the road and must take shelter in a seemingly deserted farmhouse which turns out to be the home of April (Sandra Louise Douglas). They sort of hang out and have dueling flashbacks to much more interesting periods in their lives until another person shows up. Kate (Sharon Osdin) seems about to drive a wedge between the deeply f'd up April and the whiny Daniel, then the Almighty Plot Hammer pounds Kate into the ground like a circus tent pole and the whole thing sputters to an ending that will leave you staring at the screen and wondering "Wait. Where did that come from?"This cinematic stinkburger is spoiled at the most basic of levels. Let me give you an example. A big plot point of The Dead Outside is that April is supposedly immune to whatever is turning folks into violent and unhygenic vagrants. However, the script never bothers to explain what is infecting people or how they get infected. The big revelation of April's immunity is in a scene where she's been handling the bodies of some infected dead and gotten their blood on her. But at no point is it established that the virus or whatever is transmitted through the blood. So, when April turns to face the camera with blood on her, this film is going "Ah ha!" while the audience is going "Uh…what?"After suffering through this thing, I decided to indulge my masochism and flipped over to the DVD extras to watch the trailer. I was expecting to see one of those trailers where you can tell the movie is going to suck, but this one kicked 37 different varieties of ass. It makes The Dead Outside look complex, dynamic and unnerving, which is about as big a miracle as Jesus doing that whole bread and fish thing. The person who made this trailer should have made the film instead. If Mullaney and Bird actually made it, they should be paid extremely well to create trailers for other movies but never allowed to make another motion picture themselves.The zombie apocalypse genre doesn't exactly have the highest standards, but this dishwater dull production can't even make it over that very low bar. Don't bother with The Dead Outside.

oneguyrambling Britain: 6 months after outbreak. Virus.An unnamed guy. Alone. On foot.Abandoned farmhouse. Barricades. Barbed wire. Traps. Bodies.Real occupant arrives. Big f*cking gun. "Yer out tomorrow." Intros: "Daniel". "April".The unnamed virus. Huge numbers infected. Can talk. Run. Causes paranoia & rage. Frantic & desperate. Confused... Aggressive.Infected and scared look the same...Sleep. Nightmares. Flashbacks. Wife & kid. Daniel alone... now.A change of heart: "You ken stay." Semi-normal existence. Always on edge. Neither fully trusting.April - Determined. Afraid. Will survive at all costs. Has secrets... Dark secrets.Daniel - Principled. Aghast. Terrified. Doesn't understand yet. Drugs ward off effects. Don't they? A newcomer. Uninfected? "Kate." April dubious. Better safe than sorry. Infected and scared look the same.April: "Don't tell Kate my secret!" Daniel tells Kate...Shouldn't have.Small film. Smaller budget. Broody windswept soundtrack. Minimal gore, makeup & FX. Serious in tone.Credible effort. Nothing given or spelled out. (Accents often hard to understand.) Final Rating - 6.5 / 10. Has flaws, yet still effective. My opinion. Don't like it? Suck it.If you liked this review (or even if you didn't) check out oneguyrambling.com