watching movies one cup at a time

This film follows in the footsteps of Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project as a movie seen entirely from the perspective of one handheld camera. This time it’s about a deadly virus that is an extreme form of rabies, kind of like 28 Days Later but not quite as gruesome. Another movie this year, Diary of The Dead, also made a similar attempt at telling a zombie-type flick through a handheld camera. But this one was a little different because the filmmakers decided to go with known actors for all the main roles. Not well-known, but known. The other movies made a point of having unknown actors play all the roles to increase the sense of reality in the footage. That does hurt the film a little bit because it feels as though we’re watching actors acting. Not real people dealing with a crisis. And that brings the movie to a “made-for-TV” level, like so many low-grade disaster movies on the Sci-Fi Channel. Plus this movie really isn’t covering any new ground at all. 28 Days Later and it’s sequel did a much more terrifying job with the outbreak scenario. And the 2006 indie flick Right At Your Door did a much better job with the whole quarantine/disease crisis thing. You’d be better off renting those.

Bottom Line: This film is passable as something fun to watch on a Friday night, but don’t go out of your way for it. You’re not missing anything.