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A friend and I recently caught this at Grimmfest in Manchester and could not believe they were screening it; to say it is low budget is an understatement as this is closer to home movies for production values (and I've seen better acting in Syfy originals)

The scenes in between the three stories were the 'highlight' for want of a better word - they obviously had the most effort go into them and the opening section was pretty promising, it looked well shot and as if it would lead into a different type of horror movie to the usual fare. Then we cut to the stories...

These 3 stories were badly acted, badly shot, badly written, and just bad. There is no other way to put it. The reviews about this being thoughtful because a zombie remembered his child clearly overlook how truly terrible every other aspect of the film was. I can only assume that the 78 10/10s that are currently keeping this film up at 7.4 are from cast and crew because no-one could ever watch this film and find it good let alone flawless.

I picked up this film at a flea market, for a dollar and figured, for that price, I didn't have anything to lose.

I wouldn't have paid "real" money to see it, but honestly...Not bad.

Believe me...There's much worse out there and unfortunately, I think I've seen most of them.

Just like any zombie film, some of it is stupid, some situations you'd look at and go, "what the.....? No one would do that..."

But, all in all, not bad.

David Frampton's performance was touching and helped bring a human element to some of the stupider and badly acted parts.

Worth a watch...Could have ended better...Much better, but all in all...Pretty well done!

This independent horror flick was shot in various locations around Barnsley and Sheffield on a micro budget, and is proof that low-budget movies are not necessarily bad movies. In fact, this one is pretty good within its constraints – well-written, pacy, atmospheric and lots of fun. In a dictionary, the word 'eschatology' is defined as: "any system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters such as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc". Here, writer-director Damian Morter deliberately distorts the word to give his portmanteau film a rather intriguing and foreboding title.

The three stories are book-ended with a sequence set in the remote hilly woodland of South Yorkshire, where survivor Matthew (Tim McGill Grieveson) spends his days maintaining a makeshift compound and collecting corpses from the areas of civilisation far below. He carries the bodies aboard a wheelbarrow to his barricaded base, where he systematically cremates them. One day, an unexpected stranger, Cal (Damian Morter), stumbles into camp and collapses from exhaustion. Matthew discovers a journal among Cal's belongings which recounts three tales about the zombie apocalypse that has changed the world. Story 1 (Dead Inside) deals with the outbreak of the zombie virus, brought about by the arrival of a malevolent demon. The action focuses on a young family – the father is one of the first to be infected in the holocaust and returns home to stalk (or perhaps protect?) his wife and daughter. As the zombies grow in number it becomes clear there will be no happy ending here. Story 2 (The Dying Breed) moves further into the crisis. The decidedly un-heroic Alex first loses his girlfriend to an attack, then journeys across town to find his mother and sister. En route, he repeatedly refuses to assist other survivors, leaving them to their grisly fate, until he discovers that even his nearest and dearest have fallen victim to the virus. Finally, story 3 (A Father For The Dead) is set later still, with the number of survivors having dwindled to almost none. A psychiatrist is on the run in a car with his young son, who has been bitten and will soon become a zombie but – for now at least – remains human. Their escape takes them to the ruins of a farmhouse where they face an almighty fight against a horde of marauding zombies and equally dangerous paranoid human survivors.

There's no denying that several of the performances are semi-professional and somewhat wooden. Fortunately, Morter doesn't let us dwell on this too much, providing enough other stuff to distract our attention. There are some effective visuals and the electronic score creates a suitably unnerving atmosphere. The gore is generally well done, certainly on this budget. There are sufficient moments of gut-munching mayhem and gruesome dismemberment to keep genre addicts happy. The real strength of The Eschatrilogy is that it focuses on ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Yes, there's gore and guts and blood and so on, but the film always remembers to come back to the human element to give us something to identify with. Although the twist ending is a little too predictable from the off, and the acting in some segments is less than convincing, the film overall delivers upon its own modest aims. The spirit of George A. Romero pervades throughout the film. Whether or not Romero will ever see The Eschatrilogy no-one but him will know, but if he does I'm sure he'll give it the nod of approval. What better endorsement could any zombie film hope to receive?

Matthew (Tim Mcgill Grieveson) lives by himself in a self sufficient post zombie apocalypse era. He spends his time burning bodies and trying to contact people by radio. A stranger (Stuart Wolfenden) comes to his isolated "fortress" only to pass out. Mathew reads zombie stories from the stranger's book which comprises much of the film. The first episode concerns the rural beginnings of the zombie issue as a cowboy looking fellow with hat and spurs emerging from a grave as an anti-Christ or something (the explanation tried to be religious without being religious) and starts the zombie craze in a nation that doesn't have a Second Amendment designed to protect the general population from such things.

The second story is in a small city during the peak of the outbreak and the third concerns the beginning of a remote survivalist group. As always in such tales, the fourth story concerns the story teller.

My biggest fear of obtaining this DVD (Walmart $9.96) was that the three tales would be parts of other films, or worse, a hand held camera running and screaming in the dark. That was not the case. The zombies were decently made up with a Tor Johnson looking guy who seemed to be on the screen more than George Clooney in a George Clooney film. The stories circled back with minor irony. However on the down side there was no character development. Most characters are alive for 20-30 minutes of screen time before they stick their arms up in the air and start dragging their feet.

The zombie direction seemed to be a bit off. Their movement was hit and miss. Sometimes they attack, other times they ignore. In one scene a little zombie girl has her hands down and is just standing in front of a human, then after the camera pans away and comes back, she suddenly has her arms up in zombie attack mode. The motion was awkward.

Parental Guidance: F-bomb. No sex or nudity. Works as a rental.

Aesthetically stunning movie, set around diverse and interesting characters.Set in a post-apocalyptic world over run with zombies being led by a dark mysterious and demonic character.Man-kinds days are numbered as the unstoppable force of darkness continues to rip through society as we know it.(Not many, if any will survive) Beautifully shot, with some great effects and make up. with an amazing score by Robert Wingfield and some cracking performances with two dead mans shoes actors and a CBBC presenter included in the cast. Loved the characters of Matthew, Cal, Big S, Alex. This is a low budget movie but it really dose not show i have seen big budget films with less production values and if i was told this was shot on a budget of a million i would not bat an eyelid. The Eschartrilogy is definitely worth a watch!

No zombie film collection is complete without this movie.

Before we start yes, I am an extra in the film but I'm trying my best to write this without being biased towards it, I'm also a fan of the zombie film genre too so... Having watched many low budget films lately in the zombie genre (and still working my way through them all as well) I went into the premiere of this movie expecting another mindless horde of zombies to rampage through the streets and countryside of the UK hell bent on devouring everyone in a small rag tag bunch of survivors (typically containing an old man, gun toting muscle bound hero and several big breasted women) but not in this movie, the director Damian Morter who also wrote and starred in the film did something a little different, the way the film is set out reminded me of a few older films the one that sticks in my mind the most is cats eye which has three stories that are based around a kind of main plot following a cat. Except obviously there's no cat in this film, the cat is replaced by an undertaker style figure traveling the countryside spreading the curse of the undead to all who cross his path which he chronicles in his book as you would. A young man then comes across a stranger in a forest who has this book and begins to read the tales within, these tales tell of the pain that three separate families suffer as part of this rising of the undead while the main plot surrounding the young man and the stranger unfold... Its different, not your ordinary zombie film, in my opinion its definitely worth a watch if you get a chance to visit a festival its showing at or if you get a chance to buy the DVD when its finally released. The camera work throughout is fantastic and doesn't again in my opinion betray the fact its a low budget film the crew, Damian and Nicola Morter, the make up artists, actors and extras at safehouse pictures have really outdone themselves (yes me included ;) ) bringing this film into being, lots of blood sweat and tears have gone into it. Definitely one to watch out for if your a fan of horror or zombies :)

I attended Grimmfest in Manchester with my brother for the very first time this year and saw this film early on the Sunday morning we were pretty tired but were ready to kick the day off with Twisted when we discovered it had been switched with this film instead, so we decided to give it a watch, Im glad we did, because it was the film we talked about the most on the drive home.

I didn't know much about it apart from the fact it was a zombie anthology film and it was made by unknowns in the North of England. The film opened amazingly well and I was immediately drawn in, a young man in a secluded camp (which would not have been out of place in THE ROAD) scours the roads, picking up the now starved dead and burns them in his camp. On one of these repetitive trips he is confronted by a hagged and bloody man. This man (played by the director) utters a few words and collapses, the man is dragged into the camp, tied up, and his things are searched. Inside his pack is a book, and the book documents the stories. As the young survivor begins to read, we are then transported into each particular zombie tale. First of all the soundtrack was ace, and it reminded me of every great 80's horror film ever made, the production values and locations were very good, far beyond what you would get in a movie of this budget, you can tell the filmmakers were never lazy with their approach.

I did have issues with acting on a whole, only the two leads in the framing story really convinced me , the rest of the cast seemed less experienced, some even looked uncomfortable in their roles, maybe having bitten off more than they could chew so to speak, also the mixture of accents at times was off putting, but thats down to personal preference! What amazed me most was after the film we attended the Q & A where the director, main actor and two crew members were told us it was made for around £15,000, it was a shock and put the film very high on my list of best of fest! I am an amateur filmmaker and watching something like this gives me a bigger push to get my own work out there and proves it can be done with dedication and hard work, so i suppose the film was pretty inspiring that way! If you are a fan of horror anthologies and especially zombie movies, this is definitely one of the best low budget zombie movies next to Before Dawn (which also screened at Grimmfest), it's originality alone is worth the look, let alone proof that things can be done with very very little! I hope to see more from these guys, they looked like they were just there to have fun at the Q & A and I think they have done a great job.