Dead Within
Set six months after a deadly outbreak has all but ended the human race, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now they don’t have a choice. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them… but what’s inside may be even more toxic than what remains outside. When it all ends, this is what remains.
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- Cast:
- J. Claude Deering , Rick Federman
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To me, this movie is perfection.
Such a frustrating disappointment
So much average
I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
Good pace on a difficult two-hander. Better than Moon, I reckon.Acting very good, and the sound track maintains tension along with cuts in visuals. The dialogue could have been livelier - the characters had their niggles, but both were reserved personalities. Timeline jumps about a bit, so keep an eye on the hand bandage.Not sure the final shot was necessary - perfectly satisfied with psychosis induced by grief and cabin fever. And how/when could it have happened to her? Maybe a spinning cam in the sunshine with a zombie jaws final frame was best bet.One thing that bugged me was no explanation for running water until about 40 mins in, when it cut off. People - in a zombie apocalypse you'll die of thirst or typhoid way before the brain gobblers get you. So it's important! Then the water turned on again, and I couldn't figure out if it was hallucination.Not as good as The Battery - sort of indoors version without the humour - but definitely deserves higher rating.edit: the ranger story wasn't resolved, so point lost.
It is not a zombie movie. Not a classic horror film. It has a very deep meaning.The movie has the right atmosphere, gloomy until the very end. The woman - Kim - is nerve-racking, plays very well.The poster's headline is giving us what it is all about: Fear is contagious. The whole movie is about the Fear. The epidemic which cause black-blood, and black-eye is the Fear itself. It is a symbol (when someone is full of fear, he can not see what is real, he is blind, "black-eyed". Also it can show, that almost the entire human population get this "virus". Everyone is afraid of something (death, pain, poverty, powerless, aloneness..). The fear can grow so big, that it can lead the person. And it is very dangerous... It makes people sick, psychotic. As in the movie, Kim gets crazy - believing that she is right! She saw things which were unreal. She is dead, she is not alive, she only exists in her mind. Do you think Ranger Mark was real? Maybe it was her conscience (? wanted to save her?)... Her partner, Mike, was also not "healty".. He wanted to possess the woman, and at the end, he ran to his fate..This movie asks the question: do you want to live your life, and say no to fear(even if it is inside), or do you want to be like a zombie? What is more important than this?So, in my view, this movie is very deep, intelligent work. Thanks. (Sorry for the poor English.)
This was a half hearted attempt at an interesting twist on the 'survival after zombie outbreak' movie. The entire movie takes place in a cabin with essentially two characters. As a fan of this kind of movie I really thought it was gearing up to be more realistic than most. Not every zombie apocalypse can be the constant excitement of zombies around every corner where the average person suddenly has the knowledge and physical ability to use everything around them as a weapon and fight to the victorious end against a world that has gone awry. Here you have two people that have lost everything and everyone but each other. Including the ultimate loss for a family. He just wants to keep her safe and never let her be in harms way, however he's given her the most serious case of cabin fever ever. You can only stay in seclusion, in basically one room, before your cheese starts to slide off your cracker and hers is going quickly. So it sounds like a great premise for a darn good psychological thriller... but they dropped the ball. They never let you in on how the end of the world happened, when it happened, or what led up to them being in their current state. You aren't even let in on the details of how the zombie funk spreads from one person to the next or what the symptoms of infection are, which is generally important to know. There is no character development at all. You never find out who these people were or why she incapable of doing more than getting dressed for dinner or washing a dish. Are these zombies so skilled in undead combat that she can't even walk into the yard occasionally? Which leads you to not feel invested in either characters well being. I think I felt more for the poor dog than the people. Personally, I feel like it's not worth the time investment. The last 5-7 minutes is the only time anything really happens and even then, it lacked substance. All in all it seemed like the trailer for a decent survival movie that never got made.
Hello! Is there anybody out there? There's trollers everywhere outside the house! Do you think I'm a troller? Kim? Kim what's your favourite dress...? Kim are you fat? What if this all like the truman show? Laughs....Is this the script? I think I can come up with a script for this movie just as quickly. The screenplay is abominable. You barely see any zombies at any points. The entire movie takes place inside a cabin. THe actors try hard but the screenplay is poor...can't fault them. Every few minutes there's a jump-scare, with a pounding thud, and the shrieking of a zombie.....it gets so old so fast. THis is a movie to pass on my friend. Every few minutes a dumb jump-scare. A shrieking zombie. It doesn't go into the source of the outbreak barely. It all revolves around the two people and how the girl gradually goes insane from staying in the cabin. The whole movie is really slow, until the absolute last few minutes......boring!