Dead Shadows

Regarding an alien invasion of France, this film is utterly dire. It has a wimpish protagonist who every chick in the film seems to have the hots for and every female character in it is either shallow, vapid or both. It gives no real explanation or backstory, but simply belts along, yet manages to be utterly devoid of tension or suspense and has stupid plot holes. Even at 70 odd minutes it still feels too long and is basically a sequence of weird occurrences and mediocre fight scenes. Also, the CGI sucks.

I don't even really have the heart to go into any more detail except to say that it's a total turkey and didn't go down well at all with the audience at the Edinburgh Dead by Dawn festival where I caught it.

2/10, a boring annoying film that doesn't seem to have a clue about what it actually wishes to say and a film to be avoided. Truly dreadful.

I think the main issue here is the extremely brief running time. So much happens straight -away, and so little is explained. We don't really feel connected to our protagonist. Of course he saw his parents die as a young boy, and fast forward to the present day, where everyone is his Parisian neighborhood prepares for a comet to pass close to the earth. There's good ideas, it's well made, but so much falls off and disappears. Nice photography and use of special effects, but little to grasp. That said, the acting is fine and horror fans might find a little to separate this from the pack. A pretty, but middling doomsday chiller.

The usual nonsense indie, this time hailing from France and flirting with Lovecraftian themes although never really going full whack with the whole Cthulhu vibe. This one involves a typical young uninteresting bloke whose parents died at the same time a comet came close to Earth. This year the comet's back, and various people are being transformed into zombie-liked tentacled nasties. That descriptions sounds far more interesting than the film actually is, because this is a typically pitiful experience in filmmaking, with lots of languid conversations to pad out the running time rather than adding anything meaningful.

I literally had watched this movie in 2013-2014, when I was a children, it's really amazing return back in this media, because I didn't remembered many things at today, and return back watch this, it's similar watch for the first time, a good experience.

The fact that have Aliens on this movie in the France, and it's has a good CGI for 2012 actually, I didn't remembered that this movie is such good, I remember that I was gone to the video store with my dad and we get this movie in DVD Blue-ray and watched in home. I literally was a children, it's creepy return after 10 years. Trust me, it's a good experience. You will not waste your time with this.

Okay so the story does start off interesting enough (Cowardly kid with a crazy past) and the premise is actually quite interesting as well as the story (not quite "Zombies" but something else) The problem is that they didn't use the budget well enough. Sure the effects are pretty good but there's occasionally some bad camera styling (it's enough to be noticeable) and the music and sound effects are very much below average. It's a shame who they got for the lead role because you can clearly see his lack experience, yet his fellow actors actually do quite a decent job. It does get a lot more interesting near the end of the movie but it doesn't give itself enough time to explore the possibilities well enough.

So in conclusion: If you enjoy cheesy zombie movies/ Creature movies then you may like this. If you don't mind the low-budget feeling horror flicks then you may enjoy it. If you're someone that only enjoys top-end effects and amazing acting then I don't recommend this movie for you.

It's a lot better than some of the horror-zombie-creature flicks as of late but it isn't genre defining, nor is it anything new. I gave it a slightly above average score solely for it trying to do something different. It may not have succeeded in doing something different but at least they tried and that's more than can be said for most movies these days.