I'm a fan of the zombie genre, but I'm also very picky about ones that aren't executed well. I was going into this movie with low expectations since the IMDb rating was below a 5.
Honestly it's not a bad zombie movie. I liked that the setting wasn't the typical city or medical facility type of outbreak. The dark, grimy, old looking prison was effective and may have even added to some of the creepy scenes. I also like that the zombies had blacked out eyes, had some type of sensitive to light and sound, and had glitches of their real selves push through if something triggered its memory. These interpretations all felt fresh to me.
Some of the acting was ok. Look, it's not your Oscar worthy type of stuff, but what zombie flick delivers that type of performance anyway? Well ok, Melissa McBride gives some great scenes in the Walking Dead. So the acting here is the typical B movie caliber .
The makeup of the prisoners and zombies are effective as well.
The plot is a little sketchy or thin on details. It's not clear what they were doing to these prisoners, why or who was behind this entire operation. Even the lead actress back story was questionable. Ok shes a former marine and must have murdered someone, but why would the US send her to some prison in Ireland? If she was tried/convicted in that country, the US would have definitely extradited her being a military personnel to face a US military court. Lol IDK. Then the flashes of her mom by the ocean is never explained. Is her mother dead? Why is she by the ocean? I do like that they tried to use that flashback in the end when the lead finally turned. Too bad the entire movie we are left perplexed of the significance of her visioning her mother by beach until the end.
Anyhow, there was some enjoyable/funny moments of course. I like the Butcher... she had some funny lines and surprisingly I was rooting for the murderer.
I did think the one prisoner referring to the gay male by the F word was just poor taste. The fact they did it twice as if we didn't cringe the first time was just cements how tone death this writer is. It's unnecessary and embarrassing that they thought it would add anything to the plot or tension. Weak and lazy!
Speaking of the gay character, he did ok with his acting. Although the writing was off in explaining in a believable way why he knew so much about the prison layout. Yeah, yeah he mentioned something about helping someone get rich and that's how he had access to the blueprints but that explanation makes no sense. Lazy writing
It was also a little lazy that all the guards seemed either overly aggressive or overly passive and all were pretty much incompetent and skittish cowards. I mean what guard doesn't have all the bullets in his gun while guarding supposedly the most dangerous women in the world? Lol
Overall the move is a solid 5. Not the worst, but not the best either.
Honestly it's not a bad zombie movie. I liked that the setting wasn't the typical city or medical facility type of outbreak. The dark, grimy, old looking prison was effective and may have even added to some of the creepy scenes. I also like that the zombies had blacked out eyes, had some type of sensitive to light and sound, and had glitches of their real selves push through if something triggered its memory. These interpretations all felt fresh to me.
Some of the acting was ok. Look, it's not your Oscar worthy type of stuff, but what zombie flick delivers that type of performance anyway? Well ok, Melissa McBride gives some great scenes in the Walking Dead. So the acting here is the typical B movie caliber .
The makeup of the prisoners and zombies are effective as well.
The plot is a little sketchy or thin on details. It's not clear what they were doing to these prisoners, why or who was behind this entire operation. Even the lead actress back story was questionable. Ok shes a former marine and must have murdered someone, but why would the US send her to some prison in Ireland? If she was tried/convicted in that country, the US would have definitely extradited her being a military personnel to face a US military court. Lol IDK. Then the flashes of her mom by the ocean is never explained. Is her mother dead? Why is she by the ocean? I do like that they tried to use that flashback in the end when the lead finally turned. Too bad the entire movie we are left perplexed of the significance of her visioning her mother by beach until the end.
Anyhow, there was some enjoyable/funny moments of course. I like the Butcher... she had some funny lines and surprisingly I was rooting for the murderer.
I did think the one prisoner referring to the gay male by the F word was just poor taste. The fact they did it twice as if we didn't cringe the first time was just cements how tone death this writer is. It's unnecessary and embarrassing that they thought it would add anything to the plot or tension. Weak and lazy!
Speaking of the gay character, he did ok with his acting. Although the writing was off in explaining in a believable way why he knew so much about the prison layout. Yeah, yeah he mentioned something about helping someone get rich and that's how he had access to the blueprints but that explanation makes no sense. Lazy writing
It was also a little lazy that all the guards seemed either overly aggressive or overly passive and all were pretty much incompetent and skittish cowards. I mean what guard doesn't have all the bullets in his gun while guarding supposedly the most dangerous women in the world? Lol
Overall the move is a solid 5. Not the worst, but not the best either.