Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Michael Ledo The story is told from the journal of Civil War soldier, Edward Young (Mark Gibson). It includes excessive boring narration. Rather than just let the story unfold, the narrator tells you what you are seeing. It grates on you after the first 30 minutes.After a quick 1865 scene where a single Union soldier is a zombie, the movie jumps to 1871 and there is a minor zombie infestation. Edward had to kill his own wife (Sarah Stunt) and son, the later in an emotionally gripping scene as he holds his zombie son (Christian Martyn) in his arms (facing away) as he reluctantly puts a gun to his son's head... all the while his son is trying to eat his face off. Somehow I didn't feel it.Bits and pieces of the story is told through animation, which unfortunately was far better than the main feature. Edward has tasked himself in taking his son's ashes to a waterfalls, something he had promised him when he was alive. There is an unwritten rule that all promises terminate with any zombie infestation, apparently not known in the 19th century. The story involves his journey to get there and the people/zombies he meets up with along the way.Dee Wallace, the closet thing to an actor in this film gives us a career killer performance as she emotionally explains the origins of the living dead. It was tough to sit through. The film utilizes the sad piano/violin sound track for way too much of the production.Zombie fans should avoid this one. I was confused as I couldn't tell if the film was a bad zombie film or a bad drama with zombies.No f-bombs, sex, or nudity. Zombie make-up was good where it was applied, exposed necks are optional.***POSSIBLE PLOT SPOILER*** The film attempts to come across as a prequel for zombie films. It does a very poor job. It tells you zombies were created using African spells. But at the same time refutes that idea by making it seem zombies are caused by a virus, with one person in the film having natural immunity, and the infection spreading by a saliva/blood contact. You can't have it both ways.

boydapeters Actually no. It was just boring. Really, really boring. Good camerawork. I'm waffling on to reach the minimum length. This film just went on and on. It is a film I wish I died instead of them.Terence Malik wannabe. Director wanted to make statement which came at the expense of the non existenr story

joihn bailey Usually stick to conspiracy theory and apocalyptic films rather than zombies but caught this one on Spike TV(UK) and was mighty glad I did.Definitely not the usual frenetic slasher zombie fare but an altogether slower thoughtful one with great haunting music and evocative old school animation.Particularly thought that Mark Gibson in the lead role was very nearly an acting tour de force.Only two criticisms;1)the first part showing the protagonist's anguish and journey was overlong and could have done with a bit of trimming and 2)being English I sometimes struggle to understand North American accents,especially when mumbled or whispered, made doubly difficult with this film due to the incessant overbearing incidental music score,However well worth watching.

ritera1 For all its drawbacks, it had some worthwhile elements, too.Films often suffer for lack of money. And it showed in this. It's not the fault of the Director. He can only work with what he has. But the movie suffered as I didn't latch into the scope (big or small) of the zombie outbreak. Everything was remote and small. I would have preferred a scene in a town. At least one.I'm not going to belabor the story. Zombies in the old west. I'm a sucker for zombie movies as I think it's an interesting metaphor for society and is a variation on a disease threat. A walking disease.I did like the structure of having these long vignettes. They would dwell on pacing but then latch into something different. Lose wife and look for kid. Find kid and then have goal of burying his ashes at the waterfall. Find motivation helping the new friend. Going back and rescuing the girl. Going over 80 minutes was ambitious for this sort of movie and it somewhat paid off.The pain of the lead was initially interesting but ended-up being way overused in the end (i.e. the screaming in anger). But a good amount of human moments that did pay off.A good collection of older B actors.But I don't really think there was an epilogue. The scroll had that the zombies were walking in present day but they never took care of tying that together.The book aspect of telling the story was interesting.And the animation worked, even though it was likely a cost-cutting measure.