 
A U.S. military force
has discovered an alien life form to help
resurrect the dead as well as possess the
living and failed to communicate.
Instead, the military has tried to create
a genetically altered version of the
alien in order to resurrect dead soldiers
on the battlefield. The alien life
doesn't like this so they turn soldiers
against one another as well as causing a
major canniballistic battle against one
another.
A young scientist named Darren Hall (Eric
Peter-Kaiser) runs away from the military
base with the last pure specimen of the
alien, determined to the reverse the
damage inflicted and learn the secrets of
life while an army of soldiers infected
are killing one another and eating others
alive.
Darren hides out at a beat up old
apartment suite where he works for
another type of military people whom are
gangsters lead by Random (Noel Gugliemi)
in which his sidekicks named Killah-B
(Guillermo Díaz) and Asia Mark (James
Duvall) give him a rough time while
residing there but falls for one of the
residents named Maddie Gilbert (Sandra
Ramirez) and have a romance for one
another.
Suddenly Random is brutally injured and
Darren tries to use the formula on him in
which things go wrong making him
canniballistic and attacking residents in
the apartment. Now it's up to him and a
few survivors to put an end to this
deadly alien virus for good.
A nicely produced
independent film but yet sometimes the
story weakens at times. The beginning is
impressive though with a security guard
being attacked by zombies in which this
was well intensely written in and very
graphic too for anyone who enjoys zombie
flicks leaving the film to a perfect
start.
Of course there's the lead character
Darren Hall with his formula and needles
trying to escape the madness happening
around a military base. Plus some intense
showings with planes in the air dropping
missiles in an area of Iraq which is
another great touch for the film too.
Then we spot the opening credits which is
perfect for a film like this. It almost
has a Day of the Dead appeal
with all the surroundings here.
Then it starts off with Darren starting a
new life as if he was awakened from a
flashback memory or nightmare that leaves
the audiences mysterious as to what has
happened here. Brian Patrick O'Toole also
adds some humor involved later on to
uplift this film as Darren has to run out
of bed in his underwear to obey his
commander named Random when he is set out
with his duties. It can offer an odd
chuckle while watching this. Plus runs
into some people he has no choice but to
work with whom are bullying type of
gangsters which adds another nice
psycholoigcal flavor to the story to
anyone who has had bad experiences with
bullying sometimes making it hard to
watch to anyone who has a rough time in
school or gangs you don't want to mess
with out on the street. Plus Random has
some beautiful women dancing around him
making it look like a mobster getting his
jollies but this looked very stale and
inconvincing to the plot.
Of course in the middle of the story
there's two agents watching a tape of
some proof on these zombie's which seems
to be a great touch to the story making
it an unsolved mystery especially when it
shows what happens on the tape looking
like a mocumentary piece sincve we've
seen this before in flicks like Diary
of the Dead making this moment
impressive with the madness and macabre
behind this evidence.
Yet we see some romantic moments with
Darren and one of the people involved
with these people named Maddie since in a
horror film before the major terrors
happen we need to see this hero fall in
love with a nice understanding out of the
rough sort which seems to work on it's
own quite well.
There are some cringing moments too with
Darren practising his experiments on mice
using his formula on them in which makes
you wonder what they will turn into as
you can figure out that it won't be
pleasant at all. This seems to borrow a
bit from Re-Animator but
in a real serious mode since there was
lots of tongue in cheek with that film.
The intensity and terror really gets
going after all of this when Random gets
badly injured and Darren insists he's a
doctor which seems impressive to the
story in which you wonder to yourself if
this fellow is a mad scientist out to do
this dude more harm and yet that's how it
really starts off causing others being
infected and turning into zombie's in a
beat up old apartment building which
almost reminds me of similar elements in
the Amwericanised Italian flick Demons
2.
To top it all off something from another
world is causing this virus too other
than the formula that Darren uses since
this seems to borrow a bit from those old
fashioned black & white sci-fi/horror
flicks too.
Bottom line is this film seems to be a
tribute to those old school zombie flicks
mentioned above. Although alot of this
sounds exciting it seems to weaken not
going anywhere all too much but still
well made.
The acting is very
good and well paced in which lead actor Eric
Peter-Kaiser (Darren Hall) really
brought on alot of neat characteristics
and energy into his role as almost a
dweeby type of scientist in the flick. Does a good job
looking anxious when he spots someone as
well as trying to hide in a certain scene. He
had the perfect looks for all of this and
can really go places with his good acting
skills like in this one.
Sandra Ramirez (Madeline 'Maddie'
Gilbert) comes across as a nice outgoing
type in the film and really came across
believeable as a warm and caring type in
the flick. She brought a good aura around
her personality. Plus she showed a good
change in her personality by getting
angry and aggressive too. All in all she
was very versatile in her role.
Tim Colceri (Sgt. Gabriel Collins) was
the best in all of the cast with his
tough big guy looks and attitude too. He
lived to play a Sgt. and brought out a
perfect serious aggressiveness in what he
did as well as showing a great tough type
of personality. He was sure a nice
drawing card to the story in which he
certainly studied this part perfectly
well. A nice approach by him storming in a room and getting forceful
with one of his fellow actors which looked greatly done and
realistic looking. Two thumbs up for this dude.
Noel Gugliemi (Random) was perfect
as a redneck head soldier type in the
flick with his sleazy type of behavior
and bullying like commanding towards
others. Plus he had the perfect looks to
portray a gangster too in which he came
across that way in his performance. When
he turned into a zombie he also shows a
great lifeless behavior as well as a
great menacing violent behavior too. There's a great aggressive moment with him screaming in a rage of pain during a certain scene of the story.
Guillermo Díaz (Killah-B) lived to
portray a bullying lietenant with his
territorial behavior and sneering type of
speaking. He was believeably intimidating
whenever he tried to cause trouble with
others and really getting into the psyche
of things. In a scene he does well by being near a corner
kneeling down acting out of it along with
a good approach someone else approaching him and trying to talk
to him as well as him going haywire
trying to chase after her which looked
incredibly energised.
James Duvall (Asia Mark) portrayed a
nice sidekick bully in which he does well
as a tag along and bringing a nice nasty
behavior too. He brought out just as good
energy into his part of the film.
Although this person had a small
supporting role I thought I should
mention some here.
Jonathan Breck (Col Serna) certainly
had a great driving force as the head of
his mission on what he wanted out of his
sidekick and showed a good temperamental
attitude to his role. He was another
great key role to the story even if his
scene's were only about 5 minutes long.
Billy Morrison (Junkie) seemed to
show some descent humor as a junkie with
his hyperactive attitude and proving to
be a real ham in the cast but in a nice
descent fashion. He was certainly a real
attention getter and the viewers can
fondly remember his performance in this
film without a doubt.
Bruna Rubio
exposes her boobs when a towel is
stripped off of her from zombies in an
apartment hallway.
Lots of zombie's
biting into people and chewing flesh off
and blood gushing out
Various bloodied corpses lying around
with some chewed up skin
Blood is spalttered near a doorway area
There's low classical
sounding trombone and violing music as
well as some drum beatings and some
hissing sounds too with the odd bangs.
During many moments there's real
effective screeching sounds and sometimes
low booming keyboard music like you'd
hear in a George A. Romero flick.
The music was nicely composed by Alan
Howarth. |
