VividSimon Simply Perfect

Nonureva Really Surprised!

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Helen I was drawn in by the fact it was filmed in Yorkshire, but didn't have high hopes but I really, really liked this. It starts slowly, which serves as a stark contrast to the violence to come, and gets very intense, very quickly. Tho not big budget the production values are outstanding, and it looks beautiful. The music is haunting, the cast is small and keeping the set/location small gives the house a claustrophobic feel. I'm not sure why people are saying it's "not really a zombie movie, it's a drama". Can there only be one kind of zombie movie? And there is enough zombie carnage in this for most people, surely. I have seen EVERY zombie film there is (ok most, not all) and this is very good - I found the undead rather unnerving, and the characters were flawed, sympathetic and believable. It required a bit more of the audience perhaps, but that is not a bad thing. It stayed with me long after it was over. Highly recommended.

Leofwine_draca BEFORE DAWN is a low budget, low rent zombie movie, made and filmed in Yorkshire by husband and wife team Dominic Brunt and Joanne Mitchell. Brunt is best known to viewers of UK TV as the lovable Paddy in the long-running soap EMMERDALE, so watching him battle vicious zombies in this film (which he also wrote and directed) is something of a novelty.Unfortunately the novelty value is just about all this has going for it, because boy, BEFORE DAWN is bad. I actually didn't mind the ultra slow, family drama of the first half, purely because the horror comes subtle and there's a growing sense of unease which works really well. Some nice location photography really adds to the experience and I was left with high hopes for the rest of the production.Sadly the zombie denouement is less than impressive and something you'd expect to see in the likes of shot-on-video trash like ZOMBIE CHRONICLES. Brunt unwisely employs some extreme (and ludicrous) shaky-cam effects for the zombie attack sequences, which are overblown and ridiculous. There's no zombie horde here, no shambling menace, just a story that peters out leading to an anticlimax that makes you think "that's it?". I like Brunt but a dearth of originality makes BEFORE DAWN one of the worst zombie movies out there.

FlashCallahan Before Dawn may feature The Walking Dead, Zombies, or anything else you'd want to call those shuffling corpses, but it's not your traditional Zombie movie, in fact they are just a little sub plot into what the film is about.Alex and Meg are your typical couple who are having marital issues. Megs career is sky rocketing, while Alex has recently lost his job. To patch things up,they plan a long weekend away to the countryside to have some quality time together, knowing that there children will be fine with there grandmother.Things don't go according to l,an, they drink to much and begin to snipe at each other, and when Meg goes for a run to get away for a bit, she is attacked by a zombie, and it isn't long before she becomes ill.....This had vanity project written all over it from the start, written, directed and starring Brunt. Having his real life wife okay his on screen wife, and then having other members of Emmerdale play supporting roles.But dues to the man, he's tried to do something different, and although it's not always successful, the tension between the two leads is so intense, it takes you away from the ever increasing number of dead coming back to life.The film starts to lose itself during the final act, when Alex starts to lose the plot a little, and does something totally out of character. But, he really redeems himself with a shocking last five minutes. It's not scary, but believe me, it'll stay with you a while after.Not brilliant by any means, but an interesting movie.

davidfergusonuk I had the good fortune to see this picture at Frightfest 13. The film opens with beautiful shots of the British countryside, immediately making you think "how can anything bad happen here".But being a movie with the living dead you already know the answer.This is an intimate film as you follow this couple on there last ditch attempt to save their marriage. Indeed the film could have played out as the final death throes of a relationship without the invasion of zombies and indeed Dominic Brunt's desperation to resuscitate what has died is palpable.Joanne Mitchell as Meg is superb and makes a potentially unsympathetic character someone you care about.The acting is measured non-histrionic and understated.Everything is very real.The message of the film could very much be "there are greater horrors in life than zombies".Although they are flesh eating zombies in the film this could easily be enjoyed as a companion piece to "28 Days Later". The waves of horror that wash over you and the emotional ride Dominic Brunt goes through are brilliant.A cracking script, a strong cast,, and excellent camera work allow you to over look the perhaps not perfect make-up or the overdubbing, but this is to be too critical of a film that succeeds to strike a different note in the genre and bring a solid sense of reality and horror to what is happening whether it's the zombies or the death of a marriage.Recommended.