F.E.A.R.

This is a low-budget slow burn, characters are poorly introduced, most scenes are predictable and outcomes are shall I say LACKING. Your thrusted into a storyline that make you want to slam your head into the remotes stop button, but your a deer in the head-lights because you want to see how much worst this can get. Acting however is somewhat believable for a undead verse, but if you're a fan about the post apocalyptic undead genre then leave your hope for this one on the roadside. It seems that logic and common sense goes into the crapper when you write & direct yourself.

The stolen 'Alien' line -1 star.

Or forget it and leave. Its a virus making mad people mader, and the preppers getting lots of water on their ground rules of life, stay and protect, prepped and armed till armageddon or ragnarokk blows out the kindle of life, because its a film like that, with unwashed hair and silly hairdo and headhats, the animalistic testosteronic swines of the woods attacking. The small cast of dollies and dimples have a fun weekend at uncle mac's shack out in nowhere where your only and lonely friend is called mr frost, where normal order of domestic household is a dying trend and where weaponry is the only thing protecting you against all the other autoimmune hudlums coming for your sorely save canisters of food and medicine...

no, this is as intelligent screenplaywriting as as a pavlovian chimpanze couldve done better. Its daft and dull exhaust on reburn since the first 30-40 years ago, the acting is like a spike in the eye, and the poor kid is ordered to shut up, and dad continues growling at a high pitch, thats stupid inconsistence of survival techniques.

The best part of all is the few scenic nature clips of snow and frost the rest is just fearless and not worth your time, inless youre a prepper, as the grumpy old man aint.

I'm not sure why there is so much negativity in the ratings the story isn't bad it's shot well all the actors did a good job in fact after watching the second series of black summer it could of slotted well into it as an episode .I think the only problem was not enough infected action.

The "film director" with one review thinks throwing words like "metaphor" can save this movie - No, sorry Jim, not convinced!

Movie started off quite well with a promising albeit worn; but not quite dead yet it seems, hoary old chestnut of a theme, no zombies either folks , more 28 days later fast moving, rabid, brainless cannibals - Still we like, even if the makeup was slightly pants, it was not bad enough to be funny like some cinematic apocalypse turkeys and held an element of fear to it and thus overcoming the major stumbling block most movies of the "infected" genre seem to have which kills any of this type of film from the start!

I go into a movie not looking for mistakes and basing my review on many things like the budget, acting, photography and so should the other reviewers when attempting to critique fairly. This is no Walking Dead or Day Of The Dead level of budget and who bothers about how good a shot someone is? Ever fired a gun? Not as easy as it looks in the movies let me tell you even at point blank range! Its fiction not reality but so many reviewers seem to forget this. Moviemaking is meant to transport you to another realm of enjoyment, not sit criticising how accurate period details are or if the guns are authentic or not - who cares - does it entertain that is what i look for?

Acting was decent for the main part with the exception of the black guy and the kid who looks from the off with his pink lipstick lips, girlie eyelashes and squeaky voice like a little girl and with zero acting ability it did spoil things unfortunately. The rest of the cast can actually perform with the standout performance being from Susan Moore Harmon who stole the show as the female badass but sadly this is where my enjoyment ended and as another reviewer pointed out it was basically an hour of the actors "contemplating their navels" as the old saying goes with not much action or story and sadly adds nothing more to the genre!

Still, it is a lot better than a large tranche of the current apocalypse/zombie fare doing the rounds over the last few years. View it more as a Sci-fi channel Sunday afternoon movie and you should be good to go!

I give it a fair 4 out of 10 hatchets on the horror scale, almost gets an extra star for the innovative title but not quite!

Once again, after sifting through the bogus reviews that rate this a TEN I found myself asking "What do these people watch?" It's certainly not the movie they're reviewing.

This is not Gone with the Wind, or Citizen Kane, but it is watchable. It's your basic Zombie format that hasn't changed much since Night of the Living Dead. It differs only in the character build up. You want this family to survive. Points for that.

Watch it when you're in the mood for a Zombie movie, and you'll get more out of it. Otherwise you'll be disappointed.