The premise sounded mildly interesting and I love horror, especially zombie movies, but this movie fails on too many levels. One, the characters are boring. I didn't think the actors were terrible, but the writing was. The sets and locations also awful. The children are supposed to be in some kind of research lab deep in the woods but it looks like a community college campus. Another thing that was distracting and baffling was the music. The first "zombie" attack, which should be scary and exciting, there is complete lack of music, so we're stuck with actors yelling and it's very underwhelming. Another scene there's classical music playing. Low budget doesn't always have to equate to garbage but Dead Sunrise is. Pass on this.
505 Reviews
Sllllloooooowwwwwww
dathene17 June 2018
This movie stole the essence of my soul
jonnykds27 July 2018
It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye
nogodnomasters30 June 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Michael is depressed so off he goes into the woods camping with friends, lousy beer, and all kinds of things that crawl and bite. They are lead to the laboratory of child re-animator who behave similarly to zombies.
The characters were never really developed. Deb (Georgina Neville) was the only character I liked. I was confused by the whole seemingly unscripted moth scene. The dialogue made the film bad as well as the sound track as they didn't know what non-English song to play next? Omen style? Opera? Classical? Death metal? They played seriously depressing music while they came up with all kinds of different ways to kill the kids. At this point they needed something whimsical and fun. They went the wrong way at that point. The whole Michael and his child thing came across as idiotic.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
The characters were never really developed. Deb (Georgina Neville) was the only character I liked. I was confused by the whole seemingly unscripted moth scene. The dialogue made the film bad as well as the sound track as they didn't know what non-English song to play next? Omen style? Opera? Classical? Death metal? They played seriously depressing music while they came up with all kinds of different ways to kill the kids. At this point they needed something whimsical and fun. They went the wrong way at that point. The whole Michael and his child thing came across as idiotic.
Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
The "10" reviews are obviously "puff" ...either friends or production staff
AndyVanScoyoc29 November 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I really hate movies like this... because I don't know if I'm just old and unhip, so I'm missing some kind of noveau movie making style, or the reason I'm so confused is just because it's a bad movie and was a waste of my time to watch.
I wasn't sure how well this movie could be done. Anything with kids is kind of dodgy/taboo territory.
Will they understand it's fake...and how well can they actually act? But...kids are creepy and evil, anyway, so I was intrigued.
They ended up being the best part of the film.
As for the rest of it...I think a What The...????? is appropriate. Was there a storyline? I was so bored in the beginning all the way until the kids due to wondering what I was watching that, if there was a storyline, I lost it, way back.
Who was the old man? A mad scientist or a doctor trying to save the infected kids and himself?
Why was the group in the woods in the middle of nowhere and then suddenly in the city?
As I said...am I unhip or was this movie just...bad?
I think it was the latter.
Avoid...
I wasn't sure how well this movie could be done. Anything with kids is kind of dodgy/taboo territory.
Will they understand it's fake...and how well can they actually act? But...kids are creepy and evil, anyway, so I was intrigued.
They ended up being the best part of the film.
As for the rest of it...I think a What The...????? is appropriate. Was there a storyline? I was so bored in the beginning all the way until the kids due to wondering what I was watching that, if there was a storyline, I lost it, way back.
Who was the old man? A mad scientist or a doctor trying to save the infected kids and himself?
Why was the group in the woods in the middle of nowhere and then suddenly in the city?
As I said...am I unhip or was this movie just...bad?
I think it was the latter.
Avoid...
Beware
Shaymin-9418 December 2021
Was scrolling through prime and saw that this had 4 on imdb so I thought well maybe it's watchable, I don't read reviews before watching. Almost all rewievs of this movies are from bots so that explains the rating, what a shame.
The story made absolutely no sense, couldn't care less about the characters and it felt like the movie would never end even though it was short.
At least there was zombies as promised, how and why there were zombies though? Not even the writer could explain that.
The story made absolutely no sense, couldn't care less about the characters and it felt like the movie would never end even though it was short.
At least there was zombies as promised, how and why there were zombies though? Not even the writer could explain that.
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