A
Plague So Pleasant
(2013/Wild Eye DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: C-
A
low budget zombie film, A
Plague So Pleasant
employs the use of young no name actors in a hope to instill fear in
the same way 28
Days Later
did and falls on its face. While some sequences are filmed decently,
the script is long winded and misguided in terms of cinematic style.
The idea of the film is fine: zombies that don't attack unless
provoked, but that also puts forth its own list of questions. Do the
zombies smell the humans? They aren't hungry? Why are they just
walking around domestic residences?
I
could go on.
In
the near future, zombies have become a protected, endangered species,
held in captivity and legally wandering the streets free from harm by
the living. But for the loved ones of those who die, sometimes
coping is just too much to handle, especially when not everyone feels
the dead have a right to exist, and are willing to break the law to
rid the world of this new population of the dead.
The
makeup and special effects in the film don't quite fly, nor does the
lack of skillful lighting throughout and in some sequences I don't
think the filmmakers were aware of the product placement (especially
in kitchen scenes) where major corporation logos are exposed. All in
all this film feels amateur and prime for a film professor to rip to
shreds. Worst of all is the low level voice over by the main
character that tries to mimic John Conner in Cameron's Terminator
2: Judgment Day
but doesn't quite give me the same feeling.
Presented
in standard definition, the film is in both color and black and white
and presented in a 16 X 9 widescreen with lossy Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo that's good enough. The only extras are some promos and
trailers.
It's
nice that this guy got his zombie movie released and all but as for
the rest of us, this amateur effort is been there done that. For
now, I'll stick with The
Walking Dead.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
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