I've heard a lot of bad things about this movie-and they're just about all true. The first half hour is okay, establishing the story of a bunch of college students taking a boat to a remote island for a party. It also shows that something is killing off all those partygoers on the island, quick glimpses of corpses with glowing red eyes.But once the college people start fighting the zombies the movie falls into boredom. There's no way all these people would just happen to fight like martial arts action stars-it's just stupid. But the thing that really irritated me-and totally took me out of the movie-were these brief cuts to the video game (on which this is based) that happen between scenes. It's jolting, makes for a poor transition between scenes, and has nothing to do with what's going on in the movie. And it ends like BRIDE OF THE REANIMATOR! Avoid this one.
I've heard a lot of bad things about this movie-and they're just about all true. The first half hour is okay, establishing the story of a bunch of college students taking a boat to a remote island for a party. It also shows that something is killing off all those partygoers on the island, quick glimpses of corpses with glowing red eyes.But once the college people start fighting the zombies the movie falls into boredom. There's no way all these people would just happen to fight like martial arts action stars-it's just stupid. But the thing that really irritated me-and totally took me out of the movie-were these brief cuts to the video game (on which this is based) that happen between scenes. It's jolting, makes for a poor transition between scenes, and has nothing to do with what's going on in the movie. And it ends like BRIDE OF THE REANIMATOR! Avoid this one.
