After Dark Horrorfest - Mulberry Street Reviews

there are some nice elements to this movie and its an enjoyable escape but it won't be your favorite guaranteed.

the movie is a blatant combination of a number of other movies. granted most movies are, this one just doesn't live up to its potential.

clearly inspired by 28 days later and other new zombie movies. this movie tries to carve a niche by making the zombies turn into rat-people-zombies. at first the few we see are stumblers and groaners but then they become these feverishly quick neo-zombies infested by rats that turn their behaviors and, unfortunately somewhat laughably, their physical characteristics into nearly unstoppably powerful rat like humans that eat other humans entrails and turn them into more rat-like-zombie people. until all of manhattan island has to be quarantined. yes, somehow no one who got infected left manhattan.....(if you've lived there you know this is obviously impossible, clearly whoever wrote this hasn't lived there or is a moron).

there are some stunning moments, some nice gore, a rise in the amount of problems that come up (not so much the tension in the movie but the amount of instances that become known). there are a few subplots which don't really go anywhere, but are fair enough. acting wise the film is surprisingly good, with unknown actors holding their ground well and developing decent characters.

the strange thing here is that everything seems to be going well for the movie...not grand but good....and then it ends in a drop dead halt. an ending that definitely will leave you asking "thats the end?" when does "part II - the ending" come out? to be fair, a lot of the stories were carried through and there is an ending of sorts...but it definitely didn't clear up a lot of things. it didn't even suggest how this all happened and it leaves you with only 2 of the main characters alive, both of which are abducted by bio-suit wearing military people. thats the end scene...i tell you because its not a 'spoiler' its a 'wtf?' so abrupt that it nearly ruins the efforts of the rest of the movie which i found to be quite decent actually.

well, i'm not sure i really wanted to rate this but rather hope that they actually do make a second part that fills in all the left out details and brings this movie to the credit it could deserve. if they don't make a second part, and do a similar or better job, than this one remains unfortunately flawed.