After Effect

Daniel Baldwin excelled himself in one of the worst movies , he's ever starred in ! And the lead actress Tuckie White (aka 'Lacie ) has hopefully given up acting as she has Zero talent . Further , The script was appalling with Lacie just saying the same thing!.

One of the characters said she felt like she hadn't eaten for days and was hungry. There was a vending machine in the room that she could have broken to grab a couple of chocolate bars , which of course she didn't do ( It would have been the highlight of the movie if she had ! )

There have been low budget movies made , which have been really good because the acting , directing and script have been excellent . However , none of those qualities existed in this movie . Also one of characters lost all her hair whilst turning into a Zombie but in the next scene she had a full head of hair! ( She needs to market that Zombie shampoo cos she'd make a fortune!)

A group of students sign up to take part in a military research scheme, a test that sees each of them due to cash in $1000. Some of the subjects are novices, some are experienced, the trial isn't quite what they'd planned for.

You could be forgiven for thinking that this was a rubbish film, multiple negative comments and a very low score, however, for horror lovers like myself, there is definitely something here to enjoy.

The subjects are all assembled, in an almost Agatha Christie style, then one by one they suffer their fate.

It's not quite a zombie movie as such, but there are shades, the 'monsters' are just a little bit different somehow.

The aids remark I thought was a little tasteless.

It is definitely not Daniel Baldwin's finest hour, he's a little hammy to say the least, but otherwise the acting is decent enough.

One of the more effective 'students take part in a medical trial' type horrors.

6/10.

You can tell it is low budget from the look right away, but it's not the worse I have seen. Made for TV level quality. The first 30 minutes or so are incredibly boring with pacing problems too, but once it picks up. It has some interesting things going on. The first 30 minutes are so dull I did actually almost switch off.

The set up is students signing up for a medical study, and they're being experimented on. They're locked up in a hospital, which actually is a great way to do this on a lower budget.

The first "zombie turning" was well done from a horror point of view. They're a bit different to "traditional zombies" but I think indies that play with ideas are pretty great.

The acting is extremely average. Again I've seen a lot worse. Like if the first 30 minutes wouldn't have been so dry it would have been a much more decent watch, but I did enjoy it after things got moving.

The US army wants a new biological weapon and they are testing it on volunteer students who want to make a quick thousand dollars. Once a group is selected they are put into the facility equipped with cameras, then gassed which is how the drug is administered. They sit back and watch the results.

The drug makes them bleed from all orifices, then gives them a surge of energy making them incredibly strong wanting just to kill. They look like demon zombies. The difference in this film is that the infected people can be killed like how anybody could be. They don't take 50 bullets and keep going.

My only complaint is the overplayed premise and Daniel Baldwin's presence.

I was lured in by the promise stating "The Walking Dead meets 28 Days Later" on the cover of this movie. So yeah, I must admit that I had some expectations for this 2012 movie. Which, I oddly enough, hadn't heard of before stumbling upon it in 2019, and I am a huge zombie fan.

Nevertheless, I sat down to watch "After Effect", and when I saw that Daniel Baldwin was in it, I knew that the movie was not likely to live up to what was promised on the front cover. And right I was, because this was quite far from both "The Walking Dead" and "28 Days Later". This was something else alright.

The movie definitely had potential, I mean a group of people locked inside a testing facility to undergo some military experiment. But that is where it stopped, because the movie settled into stupidity and sluggish mediocrity pretty quickly. Director David McElroy didn't really come up with anything particularly great here.

For a zombie movie, "After Effect" was not delivering anything worthwhile, and it was hard to take most of the characters seriously. I mean, some of the things they did and said was just downright stupid. If you sign up for testing and getting paid, why would you turn all scared and start yelling and screaming when you are lead to a room and they close the door behind you.

"After Effect" was not a memorable movie, yet I managed to sit through the entirety of it, hoping that it would improve and turn out just semi-adequate. That just never happened.

My rating of "After Effect" is a mere three out of ten stars. The movie was sluggish, boring and just downright uneventful. It was crammed with pointless characters that you don't really care about, and writers David McElroy and Marc Menet just didn't make much of anything noteworthy here with this 2012 movie.