Night of the Living Deb

SPOILERS AHEAD

Night of the Living Deb (2015) is a romantic comedy meets zombie flick. The film starts out with female protagonist Deb having some unrequited feelings for her male counterpart Ryan and then, in a totally predictable twist, the two fall in love and live happily ever after. Granted there are a few undead bumps in the road. Despite there being no surprise to their eventual love, I still found it enjoyable to watch it unfold and it is, after all, the classic tale of a romantic comedy. The plot is quite similar to the film pitch I wrote, therefore this is obviously my kind of movie. Two lovers find themselves in a zombie apocalypse and have to work together to survive while simultaneously falling for each other, sign me up! The movie ends joyfully with the two being rescued from the isolated location in which the zombies had taken over, free to live out the rest of their lives together. One twist that actually did get me was when, at the end of the movie, Deb was bitten by a zombie and both the characters and myself thought that she had met her end. In a comedic turn of events, the paramedics that rescued the two put a bandage on her shoulder and just told her to keep it clean and it should heal just fine. Ryan and Deb were confused and then the paramedics, in a totally 2016 fashion, acted very offended by their stereotyping of zombies to pull their legs and informed them that this specific type was caused by contaminated water and could not be transferred via bite.

I found the dialogue of Night of the Living Deb to be hilarious. The title alone made me giggle and caused the movie to stand out in the endless options on Netflix. Deb has a sarcastic sense of humor throughout the film which made for some pretty great one liners. The story is also set in a very current time period which made the references relatable and perfectly timed. One part near the beginning of the movie that made me laugh out loud was when Ryan was getting coffee the morning of the outbreak and his usual barista Joe walks out of the back munching on some toes. Ryan screams, completely confused and alarmed, "JOE! WHY ARE YOU EATING A FOOT?"

I chose this film because the actor who plays the male protagonist, Ryan, also plays a main character on one of my favorite and wrongfully cancelled television shows Men at Work. As the movie progresses, to my excitement, I discover that Ryan’s father is played by the same man who plays Robin Scherbatsky’s dad on How I Met Your Mother, my actual all time favorite show. Watching actors that I know so well as their previous roles brought a whole new comedic element to the film that I appreciated. I think the acting in this movie is really good, which took me by surprise because it can be difficult to find a movie that actually pulls off the horror comedy title. The makeup and special effects in Night of the Living Deb were also very believable. They were not super gory and over the top like in Zombieland (2009), they were more tame and how I would imagine the start of a zombie apocalypse would look like, though still disgusting and awesome.

Overall, I would give this movie 4 out of 5 brains because I thoroughly enjoyed it and it is the kind of movie I would watch in my spare time but I do not think there was anything particularly spectacular about it and I believe 5 brains should be reserved for the likes of Zombieland and movies like Pulp Fiction (1994).

IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3602128/

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pqm_drZQ44

Available on Netflix and iTunes

A Cabin in the Woods

The Cabin in the Woods

This movie is unlike any scary movie I have seen before.  It is self aware of the classic horror movie tropes and utilizes humor in order to implement them seamlessly.  In a way this movie makes fun of other scary movies while still managing to have a serious and very engaging plot.  After watching this film, while there are zombies in the movie, I would not consider this a "zombie movie".  Instead this film tackles just about every subgenre of horror movies there is.  If you can think of a scary monster, I can almost assure you that it appeared in the climax of this movie.  This was because of the genius self aware plot that was this movie's foundation.

 Without spoiling anything, there is an organization, let's call them the Agency, and their sole purpose is to keep an ancient evil, worse than any monster, trapped in its prison.  If this evil escapes it would mean the end of the world.  The catch is, in order to keep the prison door sealed, the Agency has to produce ritual sacrifices.  It just so happens that these sacrifices have to be made in the exact methodology that a majority of horror movies follow.  That is where the humor in the movie comes from.  Since the Agency has to follow this exact formula, it gives justification for classic zombie movie tropes such as: the "slutty" girl has to die first, the gratuitous boob shot, and it also explains why the group must split up to cover more ground even though they are locked in a house.  The Agency has a "Hunger Games" like omnipresence that allows it to control everything that happens.  It is a very exciting and compelling twist on the horror genre.

The movie that we watched in class that was most similar to "The Cabin in the Woods" would have to be "Night of the Living Dead."  In both films, there is a group of people trapped in a house in the wilderness, waiting for the house to be invaded by zombies.  In "Night of the Living Dead" the man with a plan was Ben, the strong leading man.  However in "The Cabin in the Woods", it is actual the stoner character who realizes that the group's situation is anything but normal long before it hits the fan.  Both films featured extremely aggressive zombies and exhibited large amounts of gore.  I think this movie offers a fresh take on the exhausted sub genre of horror that is zombie films.  It provides a new creative twist on the same overused story that makes this movie stand out among a genre inundated with zombie films.

Rating:
Plot: 5/5 brains
Acting: 5/5 brains
Special Fx: 5/5 brains
Gore: 5/5 brains
Overall: 5/5 brains
Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

I would highly recommend this movie to any fan of the horror genre as it was one of the most entertaining I have watched in a very long time.  If you want to watch this movie, it can be viewed on iTunes or Amazon.

imdb page for "Cabin in the Woods": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1259521/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

Plot- 4.5/5

I believe the plot to be extremely believable, how the whole world goes to shit. People begin looting, the world descends into martial law, the government loses control. Especially how the virus spreads, and how it’s airborne

Graphics- 5/5

The graphics are fucking flawless. Naughty Dog has always been good at graphics, and makes mostly everything on point, from the detailed plants/fungus growing off of the zombies, to the animations of the body & face on the people.

Acting- 4.5/5

The voice acting is pretty good, some of it is a bit off, like the voices sound closer/further than they should, but that’s expected. The emotion was conveyed well, and their thoughts & words were conveyed well through each of the actors.

Gore- 3/5

Special Effects/Sound- 5/5

The sound of the zombies is amazing, it’s extremely fitting, and scary, as they utilize echolocation to find their targets from the third stage and onward, so the clicking sounds send shivers down my spine. The music is pretty fitting, they try to keep most of the music to the minimum, so it’s more realistic.

Overall Score- 4.8/5 BRAINS

Overall I really enjoyed the game. From killing zombies, to looters, to governmental officials. Flipping my shit at every jump scare, each plot twist, and character death. Everything the game contributed added to it's playability, and actually made you feel attached to each and every character that you met along the way. Nothing felt too forced, and it was pretty linear within its line. I'd recommend this game to anyone, and am having my friends play it.

General Summary:

First I’ll discuss the virus: The Cordyceps Brain Virus.

The virus started in the US in late September 2013, after months of prolonged infection, about 2/3rds of humanity was either killed or infected. The virus after infection goes through to the host's brain. Once there it overrides brain function, beginning Phase 1, Runners, the fungus begins to grow within them, whilst they’re still living, and begins to alter the human, making them hyper-aggressive, similar to that of 28 Days Later. Phase 1 begins between 1-3 days. As the infection continues to alter them, the fungus begins to grow through the skin. Beginning within 1-3 weeks the infection causes the victim to have higher brain function, but still overrides any rational thought. The virus causes them to wait & hide for victims, dubbing the phase 2, the name Stalker. Stage 3, Clickers, have fungus completely growing through their brain, blinding the victim, causing them to utilize echolocation. Stage 4: Bloaters, the virus has completely covered the body, making a fungal armor, they can also throw parts of themselves, causing spores to erupt, instantly turning anyone in the vicinity of the blast.

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The virus plaguing the nation is known as the cordyceps brain infection outbreak. It’s airborne, and turns infected within a few hours of the outbreak. The story begins with Joel, our main character, a father of one, losing his daughter at the beginning of the apocalypse, to a gunshot wound inflicted by a patrol officer trying to contain the outbreak. Fast forward 20 years, and we’re shown a now late 40’s Joel, with a woman named Tess, relationship towards her is unknown, but assumed romantic at some point in time. They are double crossed by a shitty business partner, whom they go to kill, which they do. Turns out he gave their provisions to the Fireflies, a rogue group, set on freeing people from the current corrupt government. Marlene, the leader, bribes our protagonists, Joel & Tess, to bring a girl, Ellie, to the outskirts of the county. Once they got to the edge of the specified town, they’re captured by the government, and were to be brought to justice, but were first checked for infection, both Tess & Joel were negative, but when Ellie was tested she was positive. Ellie stabs one of the soldiers in the leg, and Tess & Joel are forced to kill them. They then confront the girl… she’s immune. They’re tasked with dropping off the cure of the virus, and they have a long journey ahead of them.

Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) & "The Court of Owls" (2011)

*Disclaimer: This is not a film review of BvS. The split reviews for the movie itself are enough to make a decision whether you're going to watch it or not. Instead, this is more of a review/commentary on the zombie-like aspects established within the films mythology. This then is also compared to other zombie-like appearances of characters within a more recent Batman story from the comics.

Whether you agree with the creative choices Zack Snyder made within Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Ultimate Edition: (2016), there is something to be said of the interpretation of Doomsday we get within the movie. Coming towards the end of the film, Doomsday's introduction is given as a devil figure to Superman's god status. Created to defeat the god in the name of Lex Luthor. Throughout the film, Luthor meddles with unknown powers within a crashed alien ship from the climax of Man of Steel (2013). Ultimately going against the forces of nature, and bringing back the deceased General Zod from Superman's first encounter with the world in Metropolis. Made of spliced human and kryptonian DNA, Doomsday is ultimately brought back to life from the body of Zod which puts him in the same category of undead with zombies. At this point, Luthor has also been warned that the practice of giving life to something that has perished is forbidden according to the 'Council of Krypton' which has already been destroyed. Doomsday's 'birth' within the movie also calls back to many of classic horror stories such as "Frankenstein" by having the life be brought back through the use of electricity.

Doomsday moments after his "birth."

Following in the same vein as most zombie interpretations, Doomsday shows no form of verbal communication, no sense of past before "rebirth," and added attributes as in some cases with zombies. Being part alien in this case, Doomsday exhibited various powers such as flight, increased height/strength, heat vision, EMP discharge from stored up damage energy, and regeneration. With that, Doomsday was a match for the god in the eyes of Lex Luthor. Another parallel to older zombie films comes in the form of a "master" controlling the zombies such as in voodoo interpretations, one that Lex Luthor took up slightly. Luthor did in fact become a part of Doomsday, especially with their shared DNA, but was also betrayed by his creation, as Doomsday in his first seconds of life took a swing at Luthor with Superman there to stop him and lead into the final fight.

Doomsday was a formidable foe as Luthor expected when he decided to mess with the natural order of life. He knew his objective well, get rid of the god. Being from Zod's body, I can also be inferred that some memories of the fallen general still lurk explaining why he would pick a fight with a god as he remembers the outcome of their last battle, death. This time around, Superman was to one at the chopping block after fighting Doomsday alongside Wonder Woman and Batman. Doomsday did meet his end too at the hands of Superman with the help of kryptonite, the only known weakness to Doomsday and kryptonians alike.

Superman faces off with Doomsday in a heat ray battle.

Along with this new version of a zombie-like Doomsday, another new interpretation of the zombie can be found in the pages of comic books. Recent storyline "The Court of Owls" from the 2011 series of Batman pits the caped crusader against an enemy hidden by time ruling over the city and playing a major role on the future of the city. This secret crime organization is aided by their skilled assassins, the Talons. These Talons are people from throughout time, a new Talon for each century, who are kept at rest until needed. Each Talon is trained in combat and are later introduced to the life giving formulation of electrum. This compound was the secret to the Talons being able to survive jumps off skyscrapers with a direct impact on the ground. The compound only needs a spark to bring back the individual. The Talons the court has in rest mode are all then kept in cool conditions to keep the bodies preserved, only sparking them when needed by the Court. This compound also carries attributes as it enhances the individual in the way they are able to deal with pain as they are officially undead.

Talon stabs a weakened and broken Batman from the back.

With an ever moving culture, there's no surprise some ideas from the zombie mythos have reached a grander audience. Having characters like this in the DC universe gives it more room to play with storylines as seen in "The Court of Owls" storyline with the Wayne's murder getting a fresh new twist. The creative possibilities are endless, and the future of these types of characters that share aspects with something like a zombie can be found anywhere now. These crazes then power the media which is why more and more interpretations arise as we move on. Interpretations to look out for in the next blockbuster movie, or best selling comic to come out in the future.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) - IMDb
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) can be rented on Amazon and iTunes for $4.99 while Batman Vol. I: The Court of Owls (The New 52) can be bought on Amazon.

The Lazarus Effect (2015)

The Lazarus Effect (2015)

Directed by David Gelb

Screenplay by Jeremy Slater & Luke Dawson

Overall Rating 3.5/5

Plot 3.5/5

Writing and Dialogue 3/5

Acting 4/5

Makeup and Special Effects 4/5

Cinematography 3.5/5

Summary:

The Lazarus Effect opens with video footage of a dead pig lying on an operating table. A team of medical researchers are performing an experiment to bring it back to life. They inject it with a serum and hit the switch to their machine, but nothing happens. One researcher jokes about eating the pig, and then the pig starts to squeal briefly before staying dead.

The film follows a group of scientific researchers: Frank and his fiancé Zoe, Niko, Clay, and Eva who's filming a documentary on the research. They've created a serum called "The Lazarus Serum," and its ultimate purpose is to bring patients back to life after they've died during surgery to give doctors more time to save them. The scientists preform the trial by slowly injecting the serum into the subject's temporal lobe and electrocuting the subject 2-3 times until they are revived. They test their serum on a blind dog named Rocky. While their going through the trial, Eva, who's recording the documentary, claims to see the dog's ear twitch after one of the electrocutions. The scientists write it off as muscle reflex, but the dog soon revives. The couple, Frank and Zoe, decide to take Rocky home with them for observation. They notice that the dog's eyes are completely healed, but he is experiencing a loss of appetite and they can tell the dog isn't quite normal. He shows signs of aggression when they bring him back to the lab the next day. Clay is playing a computer game while Rocky is in a cage behind him. He hears objects clattering and turns around to find the kitchen completely ransacked and the dog's cage empty. Clay searches for Rocky, and when he finds him, the dog is snarling and looks as if he's about to attack. When the other scientists return, they don't believe Clay's story about the Rocky, writing it off as shock from coming back from the dead.

Later on in the film, the scientists' lab gets taken over by a group of men claiming to be from a major pharmaceutical corporation who bought the rights to their serum. The scientists are kicked out of their lab and don't have access to their security badges or their research, but Eva manages to take Rocky and keep her visitor keycard before the group of men notice. Frank and Zoe also kept a backup bag of the serum "just in case." They decide to recreate the experiment they did on Rocky and film it, using Eva's security badge to get in the lab and Niko's technological skills to hack the security cameras. When they do the first electrocution in the experiment, the lights go out and come back on to show Zoe dead on the floor. They try to perform CPR on her, but she isn't coming back. Her fiancé Frank is so devastated by Zoe's death that he decides to use the the lazarus serum to bring her back to life. At first, it doesn't seem to work, but after a few minutes, the group turns around and Zoe is sitting upright on the table. She seems to be in shock but regains composure after a few minutes. She claims to have been in hell for years even though she was dead for less than an hour. Frank brushes this off as the effects of the psychedelic compound DMT being released into her brain before her death, which happens to everyone.

Frank brings Zoe back home, and she notices her fingers darkening as well as the spot on her forehead where the serum was injected. She notices other things going wrong: when she looks in the mirror, the mirror smashes on its own; she also has a moment where she feels transported into her recurring nightmare. The nightmare is of her as a little girl standing in the hallway of an apartment complex looking at the door of a room that's on fire. There are hands grasping underneath the door, trying to escape, and little girl Zoe just stands there watching with an unknown object in her hand. When Zoe tells Frank of her experience, he writes it off again as the after effects of coming back to life. When Frank is talking to Zoe, she can hear his thoughts and finishes his sentence at one point. Frank is visibly disturbed, but Zoe seems to have no recollection of it even happening. When Frank leaves the room, she moves a pen with her mind and also begins to hear everyone's thoughts even though they're not in the room with her. She knows something is wrong.

When Frank and Zoe return to the lab, Zoe rests in a room alone with Eva. Eva leaves the room to let Zoe sleep, but when she walks out the door, she finds herself transported into Zoe's recurring nightmare. She sees the little girl standing outside the door and asks what the little girl is holding. The girl runs away, and when Eva gets close to the grasping hands under the door, one grabs her, and she snaps back to reality. She goes to tell the rest of the group, excluding Zoe, about what happened and shows them the burn mark where the hand grabbed her. Eva suggests that Zoe may be acting like this because her soul is trapped between our world and the afterlife.

Zoe's condition quickly progresses. Niko is alone in a room when Zoe appears behind him, and she asks him to make her "feel normal again" by kissing her. Niko refuses because she has a fiancé, and she proceeds to use her newfound telekinesis to force him into a metal cabinet and crush the cabinet around him, killing him. Zoe returns to the room to appear to be resting when the rest of the group comes in and asks about Niko. Zoe claims to know nothing, but Clay does't believe her. He starts yelling at Zoe, and then she telekinetically shoves Clay's e-cig down his throat, choking him. The group tries to save him, but by the time they get the e-cig out of his throat, he was already dead.

After realizing something is very wrong, Frank and Eva decide to inject Zoe with the compound used to put down animals. Frank leaves Eva to search for Zoe, and he finds her in the hallway crying. He walks up to her, and she turns around and crushes his head. Eva runs away after seeing this happen, and Zoe leaves to inject herself with the rest of the Lazarus serum. Eva is walking around the lab in the dark when she's approached by Zoe, and she transports her into the nightmare again. This time, Eva realizes the little girl is Zoe and finds that the object in her hands is a box of matches. She started the fire, and Eva convinces young Zoe that she can open the door to let the people out of the burning room. She does, and Eva is transported back to reality and injects Zoe with the fatal compound, apparently killing her. The fire department arrives at the lab and finds Eva, asking if she's okay. When she looks around him, Zoe is gone and the fireman turns out to actually be Zoe messing with her mind. Zoe kills her and injects everyone she's killed with her blood which contains the Lazarus serum.

Review & Comparisons

I personally liked this movie because of the religious undertones, which I find a good addition to any horror movie. The writers added a good amount of scientific information without overloading it and making it confusing. The scientific elements in this film reminded me a lot of "Herbert West - Reanimator." The plot was overall decent, but it would've been much better with a more complex story line that didn't progress so quickly. The film's story arcs went from 0 to 100 in a matter of minutes, such as how Zoe's condition evolved. She seems perfectly okay considering, and then becomes a full-blown soulless zombie almost immediately. The writers had very likable actors/characters at their disposal, and they didn't use them to their full potential. I do think they executed the hell/afterlife story trope rather well. They didn't over-spiritualize the idea, and they kept it logical and easy to follow. The Lazarus Effect was an overall decent movie with a lot of potential that wasn't executed as well as it could've been.

The Dead 2: India

The Dead 2: India

Directed by Howard and Jon Ford

Plot- 3.5/5

Camera- 5/5

Acting- 4/5

Make-up/Gore- 4.5/5

Special Effects/Sound- 4.5/5

Overall Score- 4.3/5

General Summary:

     Nicholas, an American electrical engineer, is working on a wind turbine when he receives a concerning phone call from his girlfriend, an Indian local named Ishani. He learns that she is pregnant and is also stuck in the midst of sudden chaos in Mumbai. Nicholas understands that he must be by her side as soon as possible and shortly after driving his car he runs over someone and the victim remains alive even with a large amount of blood loss, causing Nicholas to retreat on foot. After walking across a large amount of desert he arrives at a seemingly deserted village, only to be surrounded by zombies and miraculously get trapped in a paragliding building. Nicholas has no escape option except to paraglide off the roof. He flies long enough for the movie to transition from day to night and eventually crash lands in a tree causing a horde of zombies to gather around him. Nicholas is knocked out from the crash but wakes up when zombies touch his dangling feet; he barely escapes when he gets down and ends up rescuing an orphan named Javed who somehow happens to be in the area as well. When the two reach safety, it is revealed that Javed is a guide who can help Nicholas get to Mumbai quickly. They take a car from a nearby house that was owned by another tour guide, wreck it at a military checkpoint, and continue on a motorbike. There is a scene showing Ishani’s bitten mother and her father, a priest, explains how the end is near. Nicholas and Javed stop for food, but get their bike stolen as a result. They have to walk on and eventually a helicopter lands and picks up Javed—there is no more room for Nicholas. Luckily his motorcycle from earlier is found and it takes him the rest of the way to Mumbai. Nicholas arrives at Ishani’s house just after her father is bitten and the father realizes how much Nicholas and Ishani are in love, allowing the couple to flee together. They escape to a military camp, the camp is bombed, and the movie cuts out with the couple trapped in the building with unknown fates.

Review:

Plot- Ultimately, The Dead 2: India, is an effective plot. It is driven by the desire for one character to seek out his/her true love while society is crumbling. The plot is executed well enough for viewers to be drawn in the entire 98 minutes but it is still an overused plot nowadays. The director made sure to include a scene where a zombie unexpectedly jumps out every once in a while to keep the audience excited, but otherwise Howard and Jon Ford (director) utilized zombies awkwardly. For a majority of the film Nicholas and Javed are traveling across open desert, so the slow moving zombies posed next to no threat. Only in houses, and other close quarters, do zombies have more of an advantage. So in a way viewers become aware that they can relax during scenes in the desert—too predictable. Speaking of location, I believe India is brilliantly used for the zombie apocalypse. We get a mixture of city, desert, villages, and a temple, all of which are populated with plenty of native looking Indians. However, the main character happens to be a white American which is completely unnecessary. It almost seems like the Fords want to send the message that Americans can accomplish anything, and maybe even that whites are a superior race. Another flaw I find confusing is that people seem to randomly appear. For example, Javed unexpectedly appears when Nicholas crashes in the middle of the desert, and Nicholas happens to hit a zombie with his car in the open desert.

Camera:

I wouldn’t have put the camera work in its own category unless it surprised me. It did. I don’t know how to describe it properly but all the camera angles and lighting seem to be perfect, putting the viewer in the moment. Several times the camera transitions to first person which turned out to be unique. The camera shakes a lot which is a little off putting but it’s alright. I realize that Ford wants to display intensity.

Acting:

Every living character seems to lack emotion throughout the movie. During intense moments, each person seems slightly less concerned with the situation than one would expect. Their scripts are great, but also acted out in a lifeless manner. I found myself looking beyond these flaws though because it is all carried out smoothly. Physically, the acting is natural and realistic. As far as zombies go, they walk slowly but are very aggressive in close quarters. Nothing to complain about there.

Make-up/gore:

I’ll start with zombies, since they typically require the most physical work done to them. Each zombie has wide, staring eyes with an usual amount of white showing. Blood running from both zombies and survivors looks realistic and not overdone. Bite wounds, or any wound, has depth and appear very disgusting. We see characters get bit and shot many times, all of which are gruesome and detailed. Occasionally there would be excessive blood spray but it just made the scene more graphic and not fake. Clothes were simply normal--nothing to say except that they were dirty and ripped when necessary.

Special Effects/Sound:

The Dead 2: India is a fairly simple movie when it comes to special effects. There is a scene where Nicholas and Javed’s car roll down a small cliff, a simple stunt, but it’s effective given the situation. Scenes including the transport helicopters seem as realistic as possible, and the bombing of the military camp at the end of the movie has great effects. Gunfire looks and sounds realistic. In fact, all the audio is engaging and not cheap. Including the other categories reviewed above, nothing about the movie seems budget honestly.

Critical Review Elements:

The zombies themselves most resemble the zombies George A. Romero included in his early films—slow moving and eliminated by destroying the brain. But unlike a majority of Romero’s films, the characters in The Dead 2: India chose to keep moving rather than hole up in a single place. The characters in movies such as Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead also see the need to keep moving in order to survive. In my opinion, The Dead 2: India adds nothing new to the zombie canon. It has a common love story and nothing is unique about the zombies. The setting is interesting, but should not be a reason by itself to watch the movie.

IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2917336/

Movie viewed on Xfinity: https://tv.xfinity.com/entity/8970258464883625112

                                  Resident Evil: Retribution

Resident Evil: Retribution is an action movie that focuses on the character Alice. She has been fighting through this zombie outbreak since it started and even got bitten by a zombie in the earlier movies. This is not a movie from a zombie’s perspective though. The zombie virus mutated and bonded with Alice’s cells and had made her a strong force against the zombies that are now taking over the earth. In the last movie Alice got this virus bonded mutation removed from her cells by a man who wishes to be the new leader in the new world. Since then a company called Umbrella Corporation had made an underground facility in order to simulation the start of the zombie outbreak in different parts of the world. Coincidentally the company uses clones of Alice and other people in the simulation until the only person left alive is the clone Alice’s daughter whom Alice must now protect and escape the facility with. Although the movie is action packed and the special effects for the zombies make them look almost real, the zombie’s overall knowledge was stretched because zombies could not have the strength or skill to be able to run and power machine guns at people, also there was no real plot of the movie. The whole movie was just a group of people trying to help Alice escape Umbrella Corp.’s facility. The directors and producers could have brought a lot more into the plot to make the movie better and have more context and material to the movie to make it up to the standards the previous movies had. Also at some points in the film the lines were said as though it was being read directly from the script and without any real emotion. At 59 minutes into the film just hearing the characters talk sounds as though they have no emotion and are talking like a robot. All in all the overall movie wasn’t bad but it also wasn’t very good. I give this movie 3 out of 5 brains.


Here is a link to the movie's imdb web page : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1855325/
And here is a picture of one of the zombies in the film: