I'm Dreaming of a White Doomsday

The title seemed something out of the Troma catalog, but I'm a fan of end of the world movies and liked the barren setting so I gave it a chance. Didn't even mind the complete lack of an explanation about what happened. Just a hint would have been nice. Instead I got - well I don't know what I got. It is very short though but it's still an hour and eleven minutes I would want back on my death bed.

And the bunch of rave reviews that propped the star rating over 2* have to have been from a very loyal crew and family members.

Yeah, I saw this in a horror film fest and myself and several other people were legitimately laughing through several scenes that were not meant to be funny. This is sincerely one of the worst films I've ever seen. Not just horror, of any genre. Notice how nearly every one of these reviews is 10/10. Do not believe these. It was all absolutely terrible, sincerely, the acting, the pace, the audio, the writing, and worst of all the damn direction. I'm not a critic, I'm just a horror fan and saw this at an independent horror film fest. I literally fell asleep an 45 min in and I've never done that in a horror movie in my life. HORRID direction, honestly. I want to write a letter to the hour and ten minutes I spent watching this horrible waste of time and let it know how much I miss it. I'll never get that time back. The director should be ashamed for calling this horror and making people sit through such a terribly slow piece of crap. I'm in awe how you can be a director in the film industry today and be in the editing room working on this movie without questioning the pacing and direction here. I am beyond disbelief as to how anyone could submit such drek without being humiliated. Dispicable

O.K., I like cheesy movies. I like old school Troma and B-movie shlock, but this movie isn't even that. I understand the budget was very low and was made with minimal crew, but this seems like something that could have easily been a YouTube short film that somehow ballooned into a boring feature length film. Parts of it reminded me of those 2000's era "Masters of Horror" miniseries movies, but it was even lamer. Those movies were usually made by established horror directors but had their plots crammed into smaller runtimes, but White Doomsday was even less impressive. About 3/4th of the movie was just some lady in a gas mask walking around at night with a flashlight with a few scares here and there, but no real action.

The acting was subpar for sure. I can understand the difficulty of using a kid, but the main actress struck me as someone who was still doing high school drama club. And the dad was only in it for a few minutes, so I can't really judge him. It seems as if the budget was spent on the special effects and props, because the acting and production values were just awful. For example, there was a tame dialogue scene in the introduction and for whatever reason the cameraman was shaking like an action shot. The video kept shaking and going out of focus, even at mundane scenes. It seems like there was a lot of wasted potential to show more destroyed hellscape in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but most of the runtime was just that gas mask lady creeping around for food. No real action or anything violent, so it just came off as dull. I won't give away any spoilers, but the ending made no sense whatsoever and just seemed so pointless and tacked-on.

I watched this on Amazon Prime during quarantine and tried to stay focused, but from what I gathered, the film originally debuted with a limited theatrical audience in 2017, so the first wave of reviews on IMDb are from the small group of people who were dedicated followers of the production crew. Then once this movie got released for streaming, the general audience caught up and gave more accurate reviews instead of just the director's friends and family. It's for this reason why you can definitely see a radical tonal shift in reviews from 2017 compared to 2019.

The only thing that makes sense is this film benefitted from lots of review padding by family and friends of the film itself, because why anyone would give this better than the lowest possible rating is beyond me. Absolutely atrocious acting, nonsensical plot, absurd, pointless ending. I'm fine with low budget, but the acting was so bad it was very distracting, and the plot was actually worse than the acting, if possible. Avoid at all costs. The writers and director should be utterly ashamed of the 4 cans of beans and the $16 they spent wasted to make this film.

Some of the worst acting and directing I've ever seen. I saw this with a group of a few friends of mine and we were looking at each other wondering how this was ever released. As a terrible filmmaker though, it's great having people you know that are able to write positive reviews no matter how vomit inducing and boring your movie is. AVOID at all costs, this is a joke. There's literally a scene almost 5 minutes long of the mom slowlyyyyy taking small everyday items out of a back pack and examining them and putting them down. And the dad, SO CORNY. All for such an in creative ending. It was painful. So bad. No need to dream of a Doomsday, this crap will turn your day into one.