End Times

Everything about this movie was amateur. Back-and-forth back-and-forth to the same locations fight choreography that looks like it was made up at the time by the Director and worst of all the producers didn't even give full credits at the end of the movie. Not a single credit for set decoration for production design for Costume Design no PROP MASTER credit yet somebody was handling the one single gun that Kept getting used over and over. Plus when all else fails and you can't afford any more zombie make up go to the standard group of people living in some kind of post apocalyptic cult. Not only does this movie not show you anything you haven't seen over and over and over again. It looks like the whole movie was shot in several weeks. Don't waste your time skip it.

Yet another post-apocalypse, "let's see how badly people can treat each other" movie.

In this particular movie the apocalypse is a zombie one, but really, it could have been any apocalypse, it wouldn't really have made a difference. They skip the really good, interesting part about the actual outbreak, which is what makes a decent zombie movie, and just move straight into the endless rehash of nasty and degenerate things people do to other people (particularly women).

It's not like it even really has any kind of story to make it worth sitting through almost 2 hrs of pointless violence, degradation, and human misery.

Not the worst horror movie I've seen, (have you seen the 2020 remake of Children of the Corn? Yikes). But... not good. I won't lean too hard into the flagrant misogyny because it seemed so intentional that it need not be highlighted further. Needless to say, Alison Bechdel would not give it a passing grade. I feel like several fetishes were being brought to life on the screen - skimpy outfits on daft women, brutal rape, and ditzy blondes who say things like, "we're very open here" which is thinly veiled code for hot chicks who are about to make out.

The storyline is very "been there, done that, killed those zombies a thousand times" that has the overused desaturated grey look of every post-apocalyptic movie shot on a DSLR. Nothing new there unless you think mixing The Walking Dead with Midsommar sounds like a good idea (it's not). Craig Stark was the saving grace, once you got past the trite dialogue and forced machismo. Jamie Bernadette's character was written like a mindless 1940s female lead; I'm surprised she didn't have a fainting spell and was accused of "hysteria." I understand that Freddie (Stark) had to explain the backstory for our benefit, but that Claire (Bernadette) knew nothing about the apocalypse because "I don't watch the news, it's too depressing" was absurd. Her character was a failed attempt at the clichéd party-girl-turned-badass role.

Some of the pros were a few well-executed and gloriously bloody kill scenes and the zombie make-up was pretty good. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough to save this unoriginal movie.

My suggestion is that you use those delightfully gory skills for something more imaginative. Zombies in Space? Zombie Babies? Attack of the Killer Stereotypes?

I understand that this is a low budget film and they did a good job in creating post apocalypse sets. The problem with every apocalypse/post apocalypse movie or series is the vanity of the actors. We are two weeks into an apocalypse and Claire has no food, no shelter, and is wearing ragged clothes. Somehow her priority is to keep her underarms cleanly shaved. This is always a problem with apocalypse films, especially The Walking Dead series. It seems like a small detail, but it immediately takes you out of the world building they are trying to create. The men are all unshaved. Lets have more verite, and less vanity.

I like zombie movies. I wanted to like this, but it's so unbelievable. First of, it does that annoying thing where it skips past the actual onset of the apocalypse. I understand why low-budget films do this, but that's my favorite part of apocalypse movies: the part where things start to go off the rails and people are trying to deal with it.

Anyway, it starts 2 weeks in, and we find this teenaged girl walking around in a pink negligee and flip flops. Wait, you've been running from zombies in Los Angeles for two weeks and you don't have pants or shoes? Really? And she has no ability to deal with people or danger? How the crap did she survive this long?

That being said, there's a decent mix of zombies, gangs, survival, and plot points. It would do in a pinch, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.