After news of a setback, a pharmaceutical company realizes that a deadly toxic pathogen has been accidentally released into a small town's local water supply and is starting to affect the local citizens bringing a teen and her friends to save the town from the ravenous creatures.
Overall, this was a decent if problematic indie genre effort. One of the better elements within this one is the strong focus on how the pathogen itself is operating and starts to work its way into the population. Featuring a strong starting point about getting the pharmaceutical team to understand what's going on and how the disease got loose from the facility to infect the water supply and the stupidity of the population to continue to get the deadly technology passed around to others despite plenty of warning from the authorities from the danger. The connection this gets to getting the schoolgirls involved by having the one girl connect the dots about the strange signs that something's going on in town and realizing it's been the news reports being right all along and the concurrent zombie apocalypse proves everything right. None of this is breaking new ground in the genre but it successfully accomplished the necessary points in getting the reanimating agent out to the public and the survivors to be aware of what's going on serving this quite nicely. As well, there's also the series of successful zombie attacks that generate a slew of solid action scenes. With the early scenes of the shuffling hordes stalking the city and causing the first encounters that start spreading the disease amongst the population, this sets up some intriguing sequences that are soon played off incredibly well with the second half generating far more impressive and involved scenes. As the swarming hordes grow in number and intensity, the idea of fighting off the adults and classmates that are turned into vicious creatures makes for a solid series of intriguing scenes showing the group getting overwhelmed and resorting to some intriguing low-budget gore effects and make-up to fight them off. The enthusiasm and infection for the genre manage to work quite well here since this does highlight the overarching issue here in that the excessively obvious low-budget nature of this one presents itself in nearly every instance, from the presentation, production, effects, and overall approach that this carries, which considering the source is an issue but not a detrimental one.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and children-in-jeopardy.
