I quite enjoyed this short film. The version I saw was around 16-17 minutes, so quite a bit shorter than the one uploaded on IMDb. They may have edited out some parts or just shortened the credits at the end. In any case, it's about three weeks now until the new season of The Walking Dead and this short film is definitely a great filler until then.
It depicts zombies as the disadvantaged from society, who don't really pose a danger to anybody, but are perceived by most of the humans more like the black-under-the-nails kinda thing, they'd prefer to get rid of. The security guard scene at the politicians speech depicts nicely who the real monsters are in this one. One man whose perception of the "Followers" differs a bit to the general perception, gets followed by a young follower girl one day and she won't leave him alone, even when he's on a date for example. As he finds it rather disturbing at first, he slowly grows to the situation, even when he has to hold speeches at an auditorium. The auditorium scene is a nice contrast on how people of different age groups react to the zombies, compared to the park bench scene very early on. The ending is really sad as we realize the little girl just wanted to spend her days with somebody who doesn't condemn her kind like everybody else. And the reaction of the protagonist is truly sweet as well.
I saw that the director James Kicklighter is still pretty young. When he shot this in 2011, he was in his early 20s and now it seems as if he'll soon have his first feature-film out, nothing on zombies, but apparently more a Bollywood-type love story. If it plays here at some point, I'll surely give it a chance as his work in this short film is really worth watching.
It depicts zombies as the disadvantaged from society, who don't really pose a danger to anybody, but are perceived by most of the humans more like the black-under-the-nails kinda thing, they'd prefer to get rid of. The security guard scene at the politicians speech depicts nicely who the real monsters are in this one. One man whose perception of the "Followers" differs a bit to the general perception, gets followed by a young follower girl one day and she won't leave him alone, even when he's on a date for example. As he finds it rather disturbing at first, he slowly grows to the situation, even when he has to hold speeches at an auditorium. The auditorium scene is a nice contrast on how people of different age groups react to the zombies, compared to the park bench scene very early on. The ending is really sad as we realize the little girl just wanted to spend her days with somebody who doesn't condemn her kind like everybody else. And the reaction of the protagonist is truly sweet as well.
I saw that the director James Kicklighter is still pretty young. When he shot this in 2011, he was in his early 20s and now it seems as if he'll soon have his first feature-film out, nothing on zombies, but apparently more a Bollywood-type love story. If it plays here at some point, I'll surely give it a chance as his work in this short film is really worth watching.