Looking into a new cancer serum, a doctor realizes that the virus has escaped and begun mutating residents in the area into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies that are overrunning the citizens, forcing them to band together with other survivors to get away from the creatures.
This was a fairly solid indie zombie effort. Among the better features of this one is the strong setup that provides the kind of setup to unleash the zombie outbreak. With the initial cold open providing the reasoning for the outbreak, with the failed robbery allowing the infected to escape from the lab where the scientist was studying it, the resulting idea of the outbreak forces the group of friends who are out in the middle of nowhere enjoying the weekend party to find that they've become the zombies' target. This starts the group of friends and several other survivors they come across to battle across the zombie wasteland to deliver some intriguing confrontations and encounters throughout, with some fun moments spread throughout here to give this a solid enough pace. That carries a fun amount of indie-style zombie encounters throughout here, which have some thrilling moments. From the assault at the party that splits up the friend group and forces the survivors to band together and escape in the car to go on the road seeking shelter and survival, the different encounters surrounding the group on their trip, or the other random survivors that they encounter in the streets, make for some fun times. The cheesy zombie gore, acceptable make-up work on the decaying creatures left behind, which includes a series of fun encounters, shooting them off to get to safety, all of which come together to provide this one with some enjoyable elements. There are some big issues here holding this one down. The main drawback featured here is the sense of confusion that arises from having so many characters present without much to introduce them. With as much time as we spend with the characters in the first half at the house party or just seeing the series of random one-shot characters that are there merely for a body count against the zombies, most of them don't even get names for so many of the scenes involving more than one person, and it makes for a disorienting time when so much of the film features random characters you don't know interacting with each other. It's underwhelming enough on its own that it also highlights the kind of dragging tempo, and with the obvious low-budget limitations here, is what brings it down.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
