Dead Within

Torture. Sinply torture. Artsy fartsy garbage. Lousy ambiguous ending. 90 minutes of 2 unlikeable creeps talking in a cabin. You never see the adversary. Just AWFUL.

Sticking needles ln my eyes would have been less painful than sitting thru this fiasco.

I could've made this movie from my bedroom. The story was somewhat interesting but was executed in a very bad bad way. It could be much better but the director only focus on One thing which is so not important. I mean, we get it!! The audiences have sense. For instance, if you want make a movie is about people taking showers is important, you really don't have to make a whole movie showing shower scene only. You can just watch the first 10 minutes and the last 10 minutes, trust me you won't miss anything. Or you can just fast forward. If anyone would try to copy the movie's concept and make a short video on youtube, all you have to do just lock yourself in your room for couple days I believe it will be more fun to watch than this movie.

I ended up hating it.

I saw the low ratings and decided to give it a shot anyway. It's the kind of movie that has the potential to give us situational horror instead of just another gore-fest. I like character driven movies if they can deliver compelling characters and an interesting story. Sadly Dead Within just doesn't deliver. On any front.

As another reviewer mentions: It isn't a Zombie flick. He's right. It is the result of somebody having the idea to make a Zombie movie but not having any real cash to spend. Basically: "We can't afford the costs of having a horde of Zombies in our movie so we will basically shoot most of it in one small set with only 2 actors, and the story will be about the people trying to survive and not about the Zombies."

Unfortunately the creators of this micro-budgeted waste of time make the same mistakes as so many other low-budget filmmakers: They seem to have hired actors because they would work cheap instead of hiring them because they can act.

I don't want to mislead you into thinking that the acting is the only bad component of this movie though. The direction and editing are lousy too. Camera-work is not terrible but it certainly doesn't add anything to the viewing experience. It's shaky and hand-held low-budget stuff. The writing, if you can call it that is unoriginal and tells a disjointed story with way too many flashbacks. The ending is pretty much NOT a surprise. Despite having four credited writers, two of them being the lead actors, it feels mostly improvised. There isn't much in the way of special effects and what there is is pretty amateur. The "Zombies" are basically people with black contacts. Those contacts, some gauze and some black "blood" that looks like used motor oil are the majority of the makeup effects.

The only bright light in the whole sorry effort is the sound. It SOUNDS creepy.

2 out of 10

Obviously you can argue, that the main theme might have worked as a short movie too and I wouldn't completely disagree. But this movie has something to say and it's not always a bad thing to really take time to tell the story. This reminds me a bit of "Right at your door", though it was the superior movie, this still has things going for it (main performance is exhausting).

The title kind of says a lot, if you think about it. Maybe it can help you make sense of some things. The movie could be interpreted in different ways if you will. But that is up to the viewer, because there is not that much happening, which is why some people sort of hate it, here on IMDb/in general. That's OK, because this obviously is not everyones cup of tea. If you like slow, but still gut punching horror, this is for you ... which also allows you to think for yourself