After the Outbreak

Amazing they managed to make a movie bad on so many levels !!! The Plot is boring the acting is just awful and for an end of the world zombie apocalypse film its slow and boring . Don't waste your time with this garbage !

This hyper obscure low budget zombie effort demonstrates the creators ability to formulate decent cinema with very little resources.

Starring Butterfly Effect (2004) actress Irina Gorovaia it tells the story of four people hold up in a log cabin in the woods during a zombie outbreak.

The lack of budget is recognised and this is by no means an action packed zombie movie. It's slow paced and focuses more on characterization keeping the zombies to a minimum.

Though it is extremely simple and not much to it I can confidently say it does succeed at what it tries to accomplish.

Upon investigation it appears this is part of a trilogy and I'm now looking forward to venturing back into this world.

Basic, but entertaining.

The Good:

Well crafted

Cast do a great job

The Bad:

Simplistic

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

People still haven't figured out that guns = noise

Obviously, it was written as a play. We follow the lives of four people living through an outbreak similair to rabies. And, frankly , I found none of the players as acted boring whatsoever. Was teh motie for writing, "After the Outbreak", a way for the writter to play it out to find some type of closure? It is okay to move on! It also deals with the mental statis of the players. . Yet, happy, sad, bored, depressed, even anger are all part of the healing process. One can not skip the healing process. It may seem so...oh...let's be happy...but until all the cards are played...one is not fully healed. And, as the ending showed, not all couples reach the same plateau at the same time. A movie for health officials. Great job guys!

Absolute worst thing I've ever seen. It's a soap opera. So stupid. What a waste of time. Such bad acting. No plot. No change of scenery. I wanted a zombie movie,but now I'm sitting here watching a couple idiots starting outa window and eating peanut butter and jelly for an hour and a half. Garbage.

After the Outbreak offers an easy to watch movie experience. The film is slow paced. The script is very simple and realistic - people behave in a way that is within the limits of credibility, boredom brought by isolation plays a big part, also apathy brought by loss and lack of hope. (But why no barricades?) The characters are rather boring (adds a nice realism to it?), but acting is good basic acting.

I was boundlessly grateful they avoided all the stupidest cliches, like partying in a jolly manner and doing too much rambo stuff. I want to see more hiding and stupor brought by boredom in these zombie films. Action is ok, but it takes a tremendous amout of skill from editing, acting and directing: as these traits usually are not of abundance (and action looks unrealistic, boring or just incomprehensible), it is good that movie makers learn to make a virtue out of necessity.

I am not saying that the director for example would not be apt - many small tonal aspects and small details and flahes here and there show, that the director has a good eye (like the long haired guy turning towards the window..). However, the director is to blame for one very major flaw - the movie lacks sence of space. This is usually a point of view in action films (since it is of utmost importance in making the action understandable), but ALSO in films that use isolation (and threat of siege) as a major plot device. Just a few establishing shots, please! For example the small budget film Thaw of the dead does this part better. Also camera angles could have brought more to portraying the feelings of the characters.

But, it was worth watching (albeit just for zombie fanatics). Rosen has enough talent to evolve.