This movie was written, produced, directed, edited and reviewed by camera man Mark Rapp. The film starts out with a dream of a soldier, Sgt. Cain (Ron Marnich best known for his voice in the Black Dahlia video game as the cop in crime scene #3). He is having sex with Mrs. Julia Miller(Kristin Pfeifer, thanks for the nude scene). The problem was when they switched from the black and white dream scene to reality, they should have changed the film to color...Oh wait, the whole movie was in black and white, but the box displays colored pictures and never mentions it is in B&W. To save further money Aaron Jackson the executive producer played Dr. Bell (Cain's partner). I was confused early by some plot points. In order for these guys to talk to their base they have to stop in town and hook up to someone's satellite dish irregardless of the direction it was pointing, but when they leave town they can contact them without any such device. There are zombies on the loose, caused by a virus and there are people with natural immunities, but they take shots anyway.
The early sound dubbing issues start with the vehicle that wouldn't crank right away. The key turning didn't match the grinding noise. The bad dubbing didn't end there. The bad camera angels reminded me of the original "Night of the Living Dead", a classic I don't watch anymore because it is in B&W and has bad camera angels. I can't believe the director was a camera man...HEY! Put the camera on the guy who is talking!
The soap opera begins early. Julia had an affair with Cain. She is their contact voice at Mt. Bethel, but is married to the insanely jealous Dr. Miller (John Yost). Mt. Bethel looks like a small boarded up fire station. The obnoxious Dr. Bell berates Cain about Julia.
After they kill a guy who was a cannibal, rather than spend the night at his house, they opt to leave and spend the night by a campfire. They had planned to look at his disabled vehicle, but didn't do that either. Nor did they "cannibalize" any useful items from the house, such as the powerful rifle and scope. The filler conversations were boring...and BTW there are atheists in foxholes.
Our first plot twist** PLOT SPOILER ALERT** comes when the insanely Dr. Miller instructs Dr. Bell to kill Cain before they return, sort of a reverse Biblical Cain/Abel story with Dr. Miller as God or Satan. However this appears to be more coincidental as this symbolism is never fully utilized.
According to the movie the guys are headed SOUTH from the CDC (Atlanta) to Mt. Bethel (Pa.? unknown state) but have to pass through mountains. The terrain they transverse looks like the same area Cain has his dreams. Along the way they meet the Rev. Shearer (Steven F. Clark who is also the co-author and make-up man) and Bianca (Dawn Ali). WOW! They really saved money!
They had to shoot an external lock off the hospital door to get in. They closed the glass doors, did not lock them and the zombies were unable to enter. The search inside the hospital was long and boring with terrible background music which worked fine for the opening credits, but we need some variety.
The trip through the countryside was not symbolic. They could have made it a metaphor for the different aspect or phases of life or maybe the Major Arcana of tarot cards, or the four elements, or something from Greek mythology. Instead they wasted a lot of film.
Sometimes a lousy movie has a great ending to tie it together...and sometimes it doesn't
The early sound dubbing issues start with the vehicle that wouldn't crank right away. The key turning didn't match the grinding noise. The bad dubbing didn't end there. The bad camera angels reminded me of the original "Night of the Living Dead", a classic I don't watch anymore because it is in B&W and has bad camera angels. I can't believe the director was a camera man...HEY! Put the camera on the guy who is talking!
The soap opera begins early. Julia had an affair with Cain. She is their contact voice at Mt. Bethel, but is married to the insanely jealous Dr. Miller (John Yost). Mt. Bethel looks like a small boarded up fire station. The obnoxious Dr. Bell berates Cain about Julia.
After they kill a guy who was a cannibal, rather than spend the night at his house, they opt to leave and spend the night by a campfire. They had planned to look at his disabled vehicle, but didn't do that either. Nor did they "cannibalize" any useful items from the house, such as the powerful rifle and scope. The filler conversations were boring...and BTW there are atheists in foxholes.
Our first plot twist** PLOT SPOILER ALERT** comes when the insanely Dr. Miller instructs Dr. Bell to kill Cain before they return, sort of a reverse Biblical Cain/Abel story with Dr. Miller as God or Satan. However this appears to be more coincidental as this symbolism is never fully utilized.
According to the movie the guys are headed SOUTH from the CDC (Atlanta) to Mt. Bethel (Pa.? unknown state) but have to pass through mountains. The terrain they transverse looks like the same area Cain has his dreams. Along the way they meet the Rev. Shearer (Steven F. Clark who is also the co-author and make-up man) and Bianca (Dawn Ali). WOW! They really saved money!
They had to shoot an external lock off the hospital door to get in. They closed the glass doors, did not lock them and the zombies were unable to enter. The search inside the hospital was long and boring with terrible background music which worked fine for the opening credits, but we need some variety.
The trip through the countryside was not symbolic. They could have made it a metaphor for the different aspect or phases of life or maybe the Major Arcana of tarot cards, or the four elements, or something from Greek mythology. Instead they wasted a lot of film.
Sometimes a lousy movie has a great ending to tie it together...and sometimes it doesn't