Wonderful Movie

Overrated

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

ANTISOCIAL is an indie horror flick from Canada with a little more promise than most, but only a little, mind. The story is about a gathering of friends for New Year who end up being besieged thanks to a pesky zombie outbreak. Much of the communication with the outside world comes from social media. There are some solid but all-too-brief suspense scenes while the acting is of an okay standard, but the story is too drawn out with little incident. The annoying blue filter and slightly lacklustre ending don't help matters either. A sequel followed.

Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world.Scott Weinberg of Fearnet says, "If you can get past the fact that the flick is composed of 75% recycled ideas and 25% new ones, you may find that something to like." Sounds to me like Weinberg does not understand how the horror genre works -- few movies today have less than 75% recycled ideas. Why gripe about this one? Indeed, this was an interesting satire and attack on social media. Silly, maybe, and certainly nothing that can be taken too seriously. But not the terrible film critics (especially Rotten Tomatoes) makes it out to be. When compared to the technology-themed "The Den", this is the more mature and accomplished approach to the Internet Age.

The film is an Indie-Horror film, so the budget is quite small. That said, they did a great job with a mostly closed set and small cast.The characters run the typical range, with enough time spent on the main cast mbrs for you to either recognize or relate to.The bright spot, and I think very intentional, is newcomer Michelle Mylett.She does a fantastic job with her role. Transitioning very nicely from the initial college student facing an emotional crisis/dilemma to the character we see in the final moments of the film.Look forward to seeing her in more characters and roles asap!~~~ Plot Spoiler ~~~The biggest mistake I think people are making about the film, is reading too much into it. Yes it deals quite heavily with the social media/networking phenomenon. But where many take the film to be a slam on the potential effect of social media, I think rather it's cautionary tale about the potential of how this new (seemingly great at first) technology "can or could" be used, to ill effect by the companies that own and stand to profit from their use. This takes that potential and rightful concern and thrusts it into the realm of a survival horror tale, to great effect imoSo check it out, it's worth a watch ;)

This is an insult to the horror genre and to all genres in general. It is full of stupidity and nonsense It's made up of very bad acting, worst script and story ever. I am a hardcore horror films fan and I feel deeply insulted. Please do yourselves a favor and DO NOT WATCH THIS. I mean c'mon the main character drills her own skull in front of a mirror very calmly and does not even blink. And what can I say about the "evil social network" that makes people sick. This was a very bad, bad joke, I was definitely hoping for a message to appear at the end of the movie telling me it was all a joke. I insist, do yourselves a favor and do not watch this.