Alright before I get into the various things that are wrong in this video... I emphasize video... I think the only thing that was a positive is Lauren Todd. (it wasn't a big positive but for not having any credits to her name, i thought she was kind of funny and do hope to see her in more films) She played the temp in case you don't know the name.
With that said, wow... trash.
It's a cheap movie which is a fact that is abundantly clear given the security control room is clearly also an editing suite. (you can see the multichannel sound board and an AVID keyboard as well as what looks like a waveform or vectorscope... not entirely sure which)
This is supposed to be a high tech/high security facility for a group that develops chemical weapons for the military, so why are all the rooms painted like a fun house? One scene contains a red wall, a blue wall, a yellow wall and a white wall.
The acting is bad but if you look closely, you may understand why they all looked absolutely lost through the whole film. The director, Dan Lantz, was also an actor, also the writer, also the director of photography and producer. It's pretty clear to me that it's hard to give actors the attention needed to get decent performances when you're time is split between 5 different jobs. I wouldn't be surprised if there are other jobs he's not credited for that he was doing. Is that an excuse? no, but it explains a lot.
Large sections of the film is chattering between characters who reveal nothing and progress the story in no way at all. (temp talking to the sex hound guy) (alexis Texas talking to the boss lady)... In fact, no one seems all that worried about the impending death that awaits them so you don't ever feel bad when they die and when they don't, you're upset.
I get that this is supposed to be jokey and fun but the jokes fall to pieces really quick. Lighting is bad, the music is ridiculous, editing is awful. The nudity is tasteless and forced in so much that it makes you wonder why the director/writer/actor/director of photography etc didn't just skip the story and have a 20 minute video of girls running around topless. (I guess one has to justify the nudity with story) The writing is bad enough it seems like it was written as the film was going with only a loose premise holding it all together.
If movies are made with the idea that it will probably be bad one has to beg the question, why are you making it at all? And if you're going to make a "zombie" movie, they have to be zombies, not mutants. So in the credits, don't list the cast as ZOMBIES/MUTANTS....
I give it 2, 1 because it's the lowest I can go, and the second because I think Lauren Todd was alright....
With that said, wow... trash.
It's a cheap movie which is a fact that is abundantly clear given the security control room is clearly also an editing suite. (you can see the multichannel sound board and an AVID keyboard as well as what looks like a waveform or vectorscope... not entirely sure which)
This is supposed to be a high tech/high security facility for a group that develops chemical weapons for the military, so why are all the rooms painted like a fun house? One scene contains a red wall, a blue wall, a yellow wall and a white wall.
The acting is bad but if you look closely, you may understand why they all looked absolutely lost through the whole film. The director, Dan Lantz, was also an actor, also the writer, also the director of photography and producer. It's pretty clear to me that it's hard to give actors the attention needed to get decent performances when you're time is split between 5 different jobs. I wouldn't be surprised if there are other jobs he's not credited for that he was doing. Is that an excuse? no, but it explains a lot.
Large sections of the film is chattering between characters who reveal nothing and progress the story in no way at all. (temp talking to the sex hound guy) (alexis Texas talking to the boss lady)... In fact, no one seems all that worried about the impending death that awaits them so you don't ever feel bad when they die and when they don't, you're upset.
I get that this is supposed to be jokey and fun but the jokes fall to pieces really quick. Lighting is bad, the music is ridiculous, editing is awful. The nudity is tasteless and forced in so much that it makes you wonder why the director/writer/actor/director of photography etc didn't just skip the story and have a 20 minute video of girls running around topless. (I guess one has to justify the nudity with story) The writing is bad enough it seems like it was written as the film was going with only a loose premise holding it all together.
If movies are made with the idea that it will probably be bad one has to beg the question, why are you making it at all? And if you're going to make a "zombie" movie, they have to be zombies, not mutants. So in the credits, don't list the cast as ZOMBIES/MUTANTS....
I give it 2, 1 because it's the lowest I can go, and the second because I think Lauren Todd was alright....