After the Outbreak (2017) User Reviews

Not a bad movie, just not a very good one

[vmv-rantanen · 4/10 · 8 February 2020]

After the Outbreak offers an easy to watch movie experience. The film is slow paced. The script is very simple and realistic - people behave in a way that is within the limits of credibility, boredom brought by isolation plays a big part, also apathy brought by loss and lack of hope. (But why no barricades?) The characters are rather boring (adds a nice realism to it?), but acting is good basic acting.

I was boundlessly grateful they avoided all the stupidest cliches, like partying in a jolly manner and doing too much rambo stuff. I want to see more hiding and stupor brought by boredom in these zombie films. Action is ok, but it takes a tremendous amout of skill from editing, acting and directing: as these traits usually are not of abundance (and action looks unrealistic, boring or just incomprehensible), it is good that movie makers learn to make a virtue out of necessity.

I am not saying that the director for example would not be apt - many small tonal aspects and small details and flahes here and there show, that the director has a good eye (like the long haired guy turning towards the window..). However, the director is to blame for one very major flaw - the movie lacks sence of space. This is usually a point of view in action films (since it is of utmost importance in making the action understandable), but ALSO in films that use isolation (and threat of siege) as a major plot device. Just a few establishing shots, please! For example the small budget film Thaw of the dead does this part better. Also camera angles could have brought more to portraying the feelings of the characters.

But, it was worth watching (albeit just for zombie fanatics). Rosen has enough talent to evolve.

Zombie apocalypse without the zombies

[Leofwine_draca · 2/10 · 15 February 2018]

AFTER THE OUTBREAK is another film in the same director's zombie apocalypse trilogy. These are indie movies focused on characters holed up in a house during an (unseen) zombie apocalypse. Each is indistinguishable from the next thanks to the non-plotting, lame acting, and completely protracted narrative style. Characters hang out in their home and chat for ages and there's a little relationship drama, but no suspense or anything approaching proper filmmaking style.

Wow was this bad on so many levels !

[nycscott1 · 1/10 · 23 August 2018]

Amazing they managed to make a movie bad on so many levels !!! The Plot is boring the acting is just awful and for an end of the world zombie apocalypse film its slow and boring . Don't waste your time with this garbage !

How the hell is this even a movie?

[tytromba · 1/10 · 26 April 2022]

Absolute worst thing I've ever seen. It's a soap opera. So stupid. What a waste of time. Such bad acting. No plot. No change of scenery. I wanted a zombie movie,but now I'm sitting here watching a couple idiots starting outa window and eating peanut butter and jelly for an hour and a half. Garbage.

Agonizingly boring with characters you're hoping will die

[AHaloInReverse · 1/10 · 11 August 2022]

Apparently this is a trilogy of films and I like to watch things in order, so I thought I would give it a try. The movie is a lot of dialog, more dialog and an annoying couple whose soul purpose in this apocalypse is to screw like rabbits. I find the characters whiny and one dimensional, we've seen these types in other zombie series' that were done much better. I get this is a shoestring budget, but the actors have about much talent as porn stars; which is to say none at all.

The character of Tom is especially loathsome, not just in appearance but in how he is written. Misogynistic pig who treats anyone he's not sticking his dick in as expendable. Your classic machismo jerk off. That does not make for a great character study, you just want him dead from the moment he opens his mouth. The other one, the brooding blondes don't offer anything else to their characters. Tom's girlfriend is equally poorly written, but seems to be trying to give something to the character, other than bra and panty shots.

Honestly, how many times does this ugly munter cast as Tom and whatshername have to sneak off for a quickly? It's literally all they do and when they're not screwing Captain forehead is nitpicking and nothing more. He's just annoying and I wanted him to die as soon as I looked at him. His whole look is disgusting. It's snarky to pick apart characters appearances, but he's just bloaty the frog with an unfortunate hairline. If you can't get someone who can act, can you at least cast someone that looks like they aren't an incel that crawled out of their mother's basement? Make the sex addict at least halfway attractive so every time he mentions getting it on, you don't immediately want to vomit in your mouth.

Petty, petty, petty I know. The film is so unremarkable that I am left to critique receding hairlines instead of anything actually of note. This just feels like first year film project material and the claustrophobic setting stuffed with characters you'd rather see dead that survive is not good character development. It's like Zombie Jersey Shore. I'm going to try and sufffer through the other movies in order, I accidentally watched the second on part way through before I found out it was a series. Now I'm suffering through it again, I guess.

Do yourself a favor and skip, the dry and dragging dialogues and thoroughly unlikeable characters make this an exercise in irritation.

After the Outbreak: Far better than you'd expect

[Platypuschow · 7/10 · 21 February 2018]

This hyper obscure low budget zombie effort demonstrates the creators ability to formulate decent cinema with very little resources.

Starring Butterfly Effect (2004) actress Irina Gorovaia it tells the story of four people hold up in a log cabin in the woods during a zombie outbreak.

The lack of budget is recognised and this is by no means an action packed zombie movie. It's slow paced and focuses more on characterization keeping the zombies to a minimum.

Though it is extremely simple and not much to it I can confidently say it does succeed at what it tries to accomplish.

Upon investigation it appears this is part of a trilogy and I'm now looking forward to venturing back into this world.

Basic, but entertaining.

The Good:

Well crafted

Cast do a great job

The Bad:

Simplistic

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

People still haven't figured out that guns = noise

Movies should lmake a point...there is a healing process.

[iriscutforth · 7/10 · 24 April 2023]

Obviously, it was written as a play. We follow the lives of four people living through an outbreak similair to rabies. And, frankly , I found none of the players as acted boring whatsoever. Was teh motie for writing, "After the Outbreak", a way for the writter to play it out to find some type of closure? It is okay to move on! It also deals with the mental statis of the players. . Yet, happy, sad, bored, depressed, even anger are all part of the healing process. One can not skip the healing process. It may seem so...oh...let's be happy...but until all the cards are played...one is not fully healed. And, as the ending showed, not all couples reach the same plateau at the same time. A movie for health officials. Great job guys!