The cover art on this one sold me. Unfortunately, that was a bad thing.
In my mind, there is nothing quite like a good survival film. Esecially when there is something crazy lurking in the dark! Night of the Living Dead, 28 Days Later, The Road, and the list could go on and on and on.
Recently, these films have been horribly over produced. I wish I could say that The Dead Outside, a low-budget, Scottish attempt at the genre, was different...
As with many films without a stellar budget, acting, diologue and character development tend to be a bust. Keeping that in mind, what is one of the best ways to avoid this? Well, to avoid the diologue part, filmakers keep lines simple, and try to rely on writing and production to develop good characters and a plot worth watching. So what happens when filmakers don't have the time to develop anything good? You get this movie.
In the films defense, I felt like this movie was just a pinch away from being really good. However, music played almost throughout the movie, clouding the diologue to barely noticeable. The camera work was lousy and made the film confusing. The plot was okay, but due to all of the other problems, I could never truly get into this film. Action was minimal and suspense was nonexistent.
A movie about a neurological virus that takes the world by storm, leaving the uninfected to fend for themselves? Maybe not original, but still pretty awesome. As the credits rolled, the only reason I could conjure up for why this movie didn't take off, was that the virus infected the crew before filming began.
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