Evil Reviews

first off, despite being advertised as a comedy...this is not a comedy. its a zombie movie in athens and its worth seeing. perhaps not buying.

its amateur fair in some ways, but give credit to a worthy effort with no big mistakes. i hope they make more and continue to develop their skills.

the film makers borrow heavily from other movies. in particular "28 day/weeks later" and interestingly "run lola run". the plot is straight out of 28 days/weeks with a group of survivors struggling to avoid the neo-zombies (the quick paced ones...evil's are quick paced but stumbling idiots...a fun take on it). the filming has elements of run lola run with split screen takes of quick action and running...they even have a similar techno soundtrack for it.

the amateur comes across a couple of time in a minor ways: some scenes are obviously filmed under poor lighting situations. they are quite grainy. there a scene where they are fleeing a group of zombies and then run into another group...the cuts are confused at best. its thankfully a short take. theres a few scenes at the beginning which are on screen far too long (like a close up shot of a man staring for several minutes unmoving). the worst, and its expected, is some bad acting. mostly the actors are ok actually, except the "young girl" charactor: she says she's turning 15....um no...she's clearly in her 20's and worse she can't act. they gave her pigtails to make her look "young" and she's whinny as hell. just short of putting her in a jumpsuit and having her carry a teddy bear...its the stuff of softcore porn....if it was meant to be funny it wasn't. it was just annoying. get a real actress, or a young girl who can't act and it would've been 100 times better. having an older wanna-be actress pretend to be a young girl....aweful.

in the end the movie is mostly a drama (ala 28 days/weeks) with some cheesy gore (i guess this is the "comedy", its fun but not funny). there are some "jokes" along the way but nothing funny and no where near as much attempts at that as the movie is a drama. its a good watch with lots of potential even though it breaks no new ground.