Prosjekt Z

Arriving in the deep Norwegian wilderness, a film crew attempting to shoot a new zombie film is disrupted by several strange occurrences around them following a meteorite landing in the hills nearby, but the more they stay there their personal lives are interrupted by a special visitor that turns the shoot into a nightmare.

This was a pretty enjoyable and likable genre effort. One of the finer features of this one is the general comedic nature of the opening film shoot which sets everything up quite nicely. With the general vibe being the artistically-driven director trying to make something profound out of a cheesy genre concept with the way they're trying to play off what goes on in the script ranging from actors being questionable about the scenes they're shooting, the crew second-guessing the conditions or material needed for a scene, or the various professionals bringing up what they're doing on-set, it all ends up painting a fine picture of the type of shoot taking place. This is mainly done with a comedic mindset as the questioning of the situation is usually coming from a genuine place for how the script is going only to get brushed aside by the youthful bliss of the director pressing them on, and with some generally fun behind-the-scenes situations also taking place the film manages to be a rather fun setup. This continues with the filming that goes on with the film developing into a series of comedic misadventures with the cast's inability to execute anything to plan resulting in numerous retakes, rewrites, and general frustration boiling over. Going from the botched car ride where no one can perform right, the house attack with the zombies unable to see their marks due to the make-up being utilized and the cut-scenes with the cast complaining to their significant others about the lacking film shoot, the general vibe presented here is the director in over her head and trying to keep the project going which is a good sight to see with the project being filmed looking like a cheesy fun time when it's not being screwed up. It all leads into the fun finale where it manages to finally turn the fake film into the real thing with a rather enjoyable and likable setup involving the returning creatures from the beginning of the film and infecting what's going on in a rather intriguing manner that upends the film shoot into a more energetic series of encounters that have some impressive effects-work to go along into a solid enough effort. There's not much to hold this one back but it does have some minor issues. The main drawback to the film is the need for this one to be a found-footage effort which doesn't feel like it's earned most of the time with what's going on. The majority of the footage being shot by the assistant doesn't need to be done to film the scenes since it keeps shifting the persona frequently so there's not a consistent through point to figure out what's going on. Several scenes are fine in this format but way too much of the film is unnecessarily shot in this manner so characters are referencing stuff that's happened but they aren't privy to beyond saying they've seen it off-camera or coming across something that needs context that doesn't have it since it's not being captured by the main figure. This can cause the film to be a bit lackluster as a result since the found-footage format brings this upon the film when it would've been fine as a straight film, especially with the bland and uninteresting off-camera hook-ups and relationship squabbles that don't need to be there also holding this one down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, and a brief sex scene.

The first ~70 mins of this film is a complete snoozefest, before it suddenly becomes enjoyable for the final 20 mins.

Would not recommend watching.

Always look forward for nordic «horror» productions.

From start the movie looked good, but then started to slowly become boring.

Dialogs seems forced n very cringe..the storyline is very slow building up to 10min in the end with some action..that are more sounds and flashes of light in darkness and a shaky camera...

Overall im disapointed in the movie, could been so much more then a waste of time...

A bunch of young film-people are travelling to a far out Norwegian place to make a student film, a zombie movie. Let's meet some of the crew. First of course there's the director Julie (Eili Harboe), her assistant Marie (Regina Tucker) the leading actress Iben (Iben Akerlie) who is having an affair with Julie's boyfriend, Felix (Vebjørn Enger), then there are the leading male actor Arthur (Arthur Berning), crewmember Leon (Jonis Josef) and last but not least the one experienced actor Dennis (Dennis Storhøi), who won't stop talking about the time, when he was playing in the film "The 13th Warrior" together with Antonio Banderas.

Most of them really believes in the project, we see diva manners from Iben and Dennis suddenly won't play anymore, because Julie will not subnit to his idea. He changes his mind, this filming will give him a chance to film a plea to Spike Lee, he wants to be a part of his new film.

Julie's getting tired of Felix, throws him out of their common room, he seeks love in Iben's room.

During filming a meteorite is coming down to earth very close by, Felix, who films all the time, and Leon goes out to this meteorite and Leon even puts his hand into an opening in it.

Strange sounds are suddenly heard, and before long we see certain hints of a creature lurking. Soon we have the first crewmember being attacked, and then turns into a zombie.

What will happen now, will there be any survivors, if, then who?

This is a Norwegian zombie movie no less. The "real" zombie attacks only appear in the last ten minutes. As a matter of fact I prefer the first 80 minutes, where you get to know the people in their attempt to make the zombie movie.

The lead played by Eili Harboe is the actor who played so fantastic in another Norwegian film namely "Thelma". Another fun fact is, that Dennis Storhøi really did act in "The 13th Warrior".

It's supposed to be a film made out of found footage, but don't let that scare you! The best thing in the film though is the ending, as always in scary movies, there's a twist to surprise you.

Dont waste your time with this movie. It felt like there were three different directors wrestlig with the plot and trying to make something resembling a movie. Unless you really are after a bad movie to have as background-noise, dont even bother with this one. Its not worth it.