Stunning

Rating: 9/10 (29 May 2007)

Absolutely stunning. This film was amazing. Right from the beginning, the audience is transported into the story until in finishes. The pace of this movie is dead on. The action sequences go fast, but there are still parts of the movie where there is silence and reflection on what is happening to help the audience process the events of the film.
The entire story follows a single family and their interactions during the whole ordeal, so there is a heightened sense of relation between the characters, and in many of the scenes, the zombies are not nameless. It makes you question what you would do in their situation. It makes you question what it means to he part of a family and what it means to be alive.
I've seen this movie twice now, and I don't know if I could see it again very quickly because the movie is so emotionally exhausting, and the violence, while it is the same thing happening again and again, never loses its effect. Each time you're left alarmed, scared, wondering what will happen next. I would highly recommend checking this movie out, as it is a carnal zombie movie, but there are deeper, dramatic developments and beautiful images to make this movie rise above the normal zombie flick.