Wormwood

I wasn't expecting much from a low-budget independent, but this was beyond amateurish. I'm sure there are 12 year old kids that could have produced a better movie than this. The acting was horrible - how hard is it to do a reasonable portrayal of a zombie? The writing is pure drivel, and there's no real serious attempt at makeup or special effects. I didn't realize before I watched this that it was possible to make a horror film so boring that it's painful to try to sit through it. I can only think that the 2 positive reviews were from those associated with this "movie" or their friends. This junk is a complete waste of time.

Other than the copy I saw having a few glitches, it is a great movie!! James Maynard is an inspirational genius when it comes to the Zombie Genre of horror films! 9/10 no doubt! If you make anymore films James I wanna know so I can watch them! You my friend are an absolute genius! I was so interested in the movie I could barely keep my eyes off the screen! PLEASE let me know as soon as your sequel: Wormwood 2 is done. I cant wait to see it! Biggest and most Avid fan for life- Chris VanVranken PS. Please send me a good copy by mail if you can...my address is known to you already I believe.... Thanks and good luck with making more of these great movies!

I just came across a copy of this in a case I had forgotten about.

A lot of people are being hard on this short indie for its acting, its fx, and the overall movie...but you have to remember that, or keep in mind, that this film is a first effort, with first time actors as well as first time FX people. So, with that in mind go into this short looking past all the shortfalls and you'll see a guy that loves zombie films making an effort to make one himself.

Yeah its got a weak story and all of the above shortfalls, but you can tell that a guy that truly loves zombie films gave it his all. With a bit of polish I can see the director making better and better films in the future.

first off I'm giving it a 1 just because this movie is an indie and it has zombies. other than that its complete trash. And I say trash loosely.

K the "plot" revolves around this preacher who thinks the world is full of sinners yada yada. than zombies arise. Simple enough plot yes? yes it is. but! it is poorly executed. I don't care how amateur you are when you go out to do a movie, especially a zombie movie which already comes with the baggage of expecting decent violence/gore, and some cute girls, you sure as hell better go all out or not do it at all.

The filmmaker fumbled a lot on this. It is extremely slow which is a horrible thing for an indie. When you have horrible actors the key is to keep things rolling. now have have some wannabe actor "act" scared and walk extremely slowly trying to get away from a zombie.. which was poorly executed as well.

The zombies/fx The zombie fx was not that bad. Its jut that they were not animated at all. I know its a corpse but zombie fans will know what I'm talking about when I say that there weren't animated enough. bland performance even for a zombie! now thats bad. OK there's a scene where this chick has a big bit in her leg. So far in the scene nothing has been done to close the would so in reality it would be bleeding but it isn't. There isn't even dry blood around to cut! I can understand not being able to make the flowing blood effect but at least splash some fake blood around. Reminds me of another scene where the zombie bits the preacher to the the ground. but when the zombie gets up there is no blood on the wound noir is there any on the zombies face/shirt. HAHA there's also a scene where a zombie disembowels (spelling) a man. now they used real guts to do this with the simple pull out the intestines from shirt trick. but the actor didn't even try to stop him while the zombie was literally sitting on him and pulling out the insides and placing them. yes! placing them on the ground.

k well we'eve covered the crappiness of the fx and acting and the plot. oh and thats the only things to this movie

Well anyway 0/10 for the movie. but 1/10 for someone trying to make a zombie movie cause zombies are my favorite sub genre.

To the filmmaker. go back to lusting over Romero or something.

I don't know what this other guy was talking about in his review. The estimated budget for this film (as reported on IMDb) was around $400, not $55k. All the cast and crew were volunteers.

For a first try, I don't think this film is so bad. There are some technical details that need work (the lighting particularly bothered me), but you work with what you have. Because of the limited shooting schedule (due to the availability of the primary set) they shot on at least one day when their makeup artist was unavailable (hence the KISS zombies).

The crowbar as a "signature weapon" was a nice attempt, but because it's thin and black it's difficult to see, not like Shaun's cricket bat, Lionel's lawnmower or Ash's chainsaw which are plainly visible and have distinct silhouettes.