I'm Dreaming of a White Doomsday

O.K., I like cheesy movies. I like old school Troma and B-movie shlock, but this movie isn't even that. I understand the budget was very low and was made with minimal crew, but this seems like something that could have easily been a YouTube short film that somehow ballooned into a boring feature length film. Parts of it reminded me of those 2000's era "Masters of Horror" miniseries movies, but it was even lamer. Those movies were usually made by established horror directors but had their plots crammed into smaller runtimes, but White Doomsday was even less impressive. About 3/4th of the movie was just some lady in a gas mask walking around at night with a flashlight with a few scares here and there, but no real action.

The acting was subpar for sure. I can understand the difficulty of using a kid, but the main actress struck me as someone who was still doing high school drama club. And the dad was only in it for a few minutes, so I can't really judge him. It seems as if the budget was spent on the special effects and props, because the acting and production values were just awful. For example, there was a tame dialogue scene in the introduction and for whatever reason the cameraman was shaking like an action shot. The video kept shaking and going out of focus, even at mundane scenes. It seems like there was a lot of wasted potential to show more destroyed hellscape in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but most of the runtime was just that gas mask lady creeping around for food. No real action or anything violent, so it just came off as dull. I won't give away any spoilers, but the ending made no sense whatsoever and just seemed so pointless and tacked-on.

I watched this on Amazon Prime during quarantine and tried to stay focused, but from what I gathered, the film originally debuted with a limited theatrical audience in 2017, so the first wave of reviews on IMDb are from the small group of people who were dedicated followers of the production crew. Then once this movie got released for streaming, the general audience caught up and gave more accurate reviews instead of just the director's friends and family. It's for this reason why you can definitely see a radical tonal shift in reviews from 2017 compared to 2019.

I would rather watch paint dry than ever have to re-watch this movie again.

Bad over-acting. bad production, bad story.

The end is kind of creepy and is the only reason I give this a 3.5

Acting/writing was really insanely bad. Only good thing was the mom being pretty hott. Otherwise, this flick puts you through your own doomsday. How can any filmmaker lack this much self awareness and not see how slow and transparently amateurish this production was man. I mean, come on. Total dumpster fire.

The title seemed something out of the Troma catalog, but I'm a fan of end of the world movies and liked the barren setting so I gave it a chance. Didn't even mind the complete lack of an explanation about what happened. Just a hint would have been nice. Instead I got - well I don't know what I got. It is very short though but it's still an hour and eleven minutes I would want back on my death bed.

And the bunch of rave reviews that propped the star rating over 2* have to have been from a very loyal crew and family members.

The only thing that makes sense is this film benefitted from lots of review padding by family and friends of the film itself, because why anyone would give this better than the lowest possible rating is beyond me. Absolutely atrocious acting, nonsensical plot, absurd, pointless ending. I'm fine with low budget, but the acting was so bad it was very distracting, and the plot was actually worse than the acting, if possible. Avoid at all costs. The writers and director should be utterly ashamed of the 4 cans of beans and the $16 they spent wasted to make this film.