This is all too typical of Canadian films at their tax shelter worst. Dull and a bit cheap. The opening is interesting but gets silly pretty quickly with kids kept in a school gym on cots for ten years! Why? Because it's cheaper than having to deal with a Hospital set.
This is really just an excuse for a zombie movie with racoon type black circle's around the "kids" eyes. Gore make up is just blood splashed around and dark gel blood.
Every time something dramatic happens, usually finding a dead body, the movie holds for a long time on the actors silently pouting, it would make a good drinking game.
Occasionally there is a good shot but it's usually ruined quickly by shots of the "kids" with fake veins drawn on their faces or pretty nice haircuts on the girl zombies for someone who has been asleep for ten years.
The dialogue is all soap opera as is the level of the acting. Dee Wallace comes off better than most in her very brief part. James BDB can't do anything other than pull the same serious face over and over again.
And like the haircuts, the supposedly ruined world looks like it's in pretty nice shape, all the yards are mown nicely and it just all seems to lack any attention to detail to give it mood or conviction.
None of the action or special effects are very effective, again mostly done as quickly and cheaply as possible. Too much of the film takes place on nice sunny days in what looks like a nicely kept neighborhood, not in desperate times at the end of the world.
This is really just an excuse for a zombie movie with racoon type black circle's around the "kids" eyes. Gore make up is just blood splashed around and dark gel blood.
Every time something dramatic happens, usually finding a dead body, the movie holds for a long time on the actors silently pouting, it would make a good drinking game.
Occasionally there is a good shot but it's usually ruined quickly by shots of the "kids" with fake veins drawn on their faces or pretty nice haircuts on the girl zombies for someone who has been asleep for ten years.
The dialogue is all soap opera as is the level of the acting. Dee Wallace comes off better than most in her very brief part. James BDB can't do anything other than pull the same serious face over and over again.
And like the haircuts, the supposedly ruined world looks like it's in pretty nice shape, all the yards are mown nicely and it just all seems to lack any attention to detail to give it mood or conviction.
None of the action or special effects are very effective, again mostly done as quickly and cheaply as possible. Too much of the film takes place on nice sunny days in what looks like a nicely kept neighborhood, not in desperate times at the end of the world.