Terrifying

Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2007)

This was possibly the most terrifying experience I have ever had in a movie theater before. It was excellent, and I'm sure with a nice big TV and surround sound, or at the very least just with the lights off late at night, all of the horribly wonderful terror of this movie will translate. Watch it if you want to be scared shitless without allot of gimmicks or (aside from one scene) gut wrenching gore, just simple excellent direction and terrifying score and visuals. The first five minutes are so extreme I had the hair on the back of my neck standing up and felt like I wanted to turn away from it, I felt like a kid sneaking a horror movie I knew I shouldn't watch, and horror, or scary movies just don't do that to me, but this one did. Zombies don't scare me, but I really like zombie movies none the less. However, the infected DO scare me, just the way they are so fast and relentless and even if completely far fetched the idea of a mind affecting virus that causes people to become "zombielike" seems as if it could almost be plausible. After all the Mad cow disease affects the central nervous system and in its later stages induces psychosis. Really its the just the vision of 30 screaming unreasonable people with nothing on their minds other than tearing you apart in the most efficient way possible, filled with screaming rage, chills me to the bone, and there's not really any way to adequtely describe it in words, you just have to see the movie.
I give it a ten.