It Stains the Sands Red

2016 "If the heat doesn't kill you, something else will"
5.5| 1h32m| en
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In the throes of a zombie apocalypse, a troubled woman from Las Vegas with a dark past, finds herself stranded in the desert with a lone and ravenous zombie on her tail.

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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.
Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
mlspaur I watched this at home (HBO, I think). Anyway, as soon as I discovered this was a zombie flick, I grabbed the remote and spun through the channels - nothing. Screw it, I decided to watch yet another goddamned zombie movie. So glad I did. The beginning, say the first 20 minutes, was nothing much. The zombie introduces itself and the next morning a Vegas stripper, Brittany Allen, is on the run...well actually she's just outpacing the clumsy zombie with a steady gait through the middle of the Mohave, all the while talking to the suit-and-tie clad walking corpse. There's a sand storm followed by a pretty graphic rape scene, but the movie picked up nicely after the stripper gets the zombie to pull his weight via a rope, an inflatable raft and a tire. Now, we got black humor. Now, we got something. After that, the flick just motors along nicely, and we discover that Brittany Allen can actually act! She spins flawlessly through a series of emotions right up to the final scene. Yeah, I still hate zombie movies, but this really wasn't one. This was a thriller/black comedy with a zombie as second banana.
jemel-aguilar From reading the ratings on this site, I expected very little from this movie. My expectations, in fact, were just to kill time. First, this is not a zombie movie. In this movie, Zombies are the background or backdrop. Second, the actress does an amazing job of getting views to dislike her as she thoughtlessly moves through a zombie outbreak. Then things turn (no spoilers here you have to watch) and she becomes someone I started to root for. I thought this was in interesting complement to the typical zombie stories that I watch.
thesar-2 Wait until you find out what really made the sands red.Sure, it's CGI'd, like too many things in this low-budget zombie Gerry-like feature, but it's the thought that counts.Sometimes I check the time on a movie when it makes me either bored or frustrated. I literally thought I was an hour or more into this film when I accidently moved my mouse and saw I was only 32 minutes in. Egad, this one was tough.It Stains the Sands Red, or as it should've easily been called, "You're killing me, Smalls!" was, indeed, a chore to get through. You will spend more than 90 minutes of one dumb decision after another from some dumb blonde. Literally, that's the movie: many stupid mistakes from someone you couldn't care less about.Some coke-addict skank from Las Vegas strands herself in the middle of the Nevada desert and in her attempt to travel more than 30-miles (sorry, she would have never made it) in the scorching sun and as little as a day or so, she's followed by a zombie as it's suggested briefly in a cool, CGI-heavy and altered flyover the Las Vegas Blvd, that the zombie outbreak has occurred. In a quasi-"Hostage Terrorist, Terrorist Hostage: A Study in Duality," she befriends a living dead dude and actually allows him to accompany her travels. I'm guessing some/most of these scenes were meant for laughs or some dark-humor understanding, but for the most part, I couldn't get past her or other people's idiotic actions...or inactions.It wasn't badly shot, despite all the horrible and too obvious CGI, nor badly acted, it's just so hard to have such a terrible protagonist and when you have basically two people in the entire movie and neither you root for, it's a drag.I'm all for zombie movies and love how everyone puts their own twists on them (here, the best scene reminded me of the superior indie flick, Rubber.) But, I've seen enough of them to know that her one major conflict could've been solved dozens of times. Not a recommendation, unless you just love to shout at the screen at an idiot. But, at least, this one's not in politics. ***Final thoughts: "This is bullshit!" exclaims one soldier in this. Every...step...of...the...way: I agree.
cjan First! Money cannot explain everything. The plot was good but who the hell survives so many days and nights in the desert sniffing cocaine and drinking Vodka? Rigght after loosing water in a vomit? As for the rest.... Do you really want was to believe in love after death?? Boring.