With mankind entering an apocalypse, the residents of a small town find themselves battling a series of supernatural obstacles with a demonic figure unleashing hordes of zombies after them and forcing the few survivors to band together to defeat the onslaught of creatures.
This one here certainly has some decidedly decent elements to offer. One of the more enjoyable features here is the small-town setting that manages to effectively convey the sense of the apocalypse effectively by featuring a small, isolated community. The scenes early on where they come together at the farmhouse is quite nice at setting up the exploits of the situation as they come across the first zombies and hide out together. Coming as it does following the early scenes featuring the reaper figure in the graveyard attacking the zombies himself, there's a fine early set-up of the small-town coming across the creatures which goes nicely with the appearance of the teleporting zombies that float in and disappear throughout the film. That leads into the spectacular scenes in the final half where the hordes have been built into a far more formidable and imposing force that requires them to shoot their way to safety, in essence turning into a solid and continuous action scene as they try to get out of the house with the encroaching horde coming after them battling through the hordes outside the cemetery getting to safety and requiring more fun to be had with the attempts to finally put them down. Since they come back to life again for the second round of attacks despite being initially put down, there's the fun of going after them once again which prolongs this quite nicely and really enhancing the gore factor of this one. These here make this one decent, but there's still a few flaws throughout this one. One of the biggest issues here is the fairly large and obvious budgetary restrictions on display, making it nearly impossible to take this one seriously with all the incredibly lousy effects- work and designs featured here. The CGI is incredibly bad and rushed, barely making it look realistic and always making itself be known that there are low-budget effects in here, from the kills to the bloodshed and the means of enhancing many scenes throughout here. Likewise, the fact that there's so many rather obscure and confusing scenes here due to the low-budget nature, from the scenes of the dark angels floating around on the outskirts of the film and when the reaper figure goes after the zombies themselves makes for a series of really shoddy effects, while the confined, cramped feel of this one gives that off incredibly well. The other big problem to be found here is the fact that this one just tends to go around with a complex, convoluted plot line that has no chance of being resolved with the short, frantic tempo throughout here, for the inclusion of the reaper and the dark angels gives this a highly-religious setup that never gets explained, there's never anything given about what the wailing figures are supposed to be that continuously pop up in the film and the connection between everything is utterly muffled and left unexplained. These are somewhat detrimental as a whole here and make this one a challenging experience, even if it's decent enough otherwise.
Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and mild drug use.