Wow. Going in I knew this was done in a documentary style so I was half hoping for a decent zombie flick with an interesting twist. What I got was perhaps the worst acted, overwrought, piece of shit film imaginable.
Movie opens with a news "crew" which consists of a camera guy and a female reporter who are supposed to be doing a story on the local firefighters, they'll be interviewing them, getting a behind the scenes look at the firehouse, and if there are any calls, going out on the calls with them.
First things first, the acting is horrible. It's supposed to be a documentary but everyone talks exactly like they would if this were a shittily written Hollywood movie being acted out by people who can't act.
So yeah, the firemen get a call and respond to an old building and zombie shit happens and everyone responds in the most cliche way with overwrought drama over having to shoot people and cameras being on and meanwhile they seem hardly phased by zombie attacks until a good 45 minutes into the film.
There's a great part about midway through where zombies are trying to attack and a CDC agent takes time to yell "TURN THAT CAMERA OFF!" To which the reporter responds "WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FILM THIS!!" Then they go back to worrying about the impending doom of being eaten alive.
Everything here is so fucking awful. The cop is an awful actor who seems to be playing Shakespear, the female reporter stops every 10 minutes or so to file a report in the midst of carnage. There's no human being who would carry a huge fucking TV camera around while trying to avoid being eaten, except of course he has to, because otherwise there's no movie.
Next we have the lighting, which is horrid, making anyone who doesn't have a standout outfit on (policeman, fireman and lead reporter in white tee shirt) pretty unrecognizable except in close up shots. Unfortunately the camera work is frantic as all fuck. Frantic and dark does not a fun movie watching experience make.
Eventually we're down to 3 characters, 1 of whom is the camera guy who of course, whenever a zombie attacks simply films while the other guy fights them off. It's funny in retrospect, but while you're watching it it's just tediously stupid.
So in the end there's a big reveal which is dumb as shit and then a shitty ending.
The last half hour of the film is a lot of the female lead screaming and being annoying while the camera guy tries to placate her in a lovelorn kind of way. Forgot to add the subtle and shitty subplot of the camera guy being in love with the reporter, which is so elegantly shown in the first minute of the film as he brushes her hair out of her face before they start filming.
What a shit fest of a movie. I wish someone had quarantined me from watching it.
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