Effectively Scary!

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 2013)

I'm not a fan of horror movies at all and I do my best to avoid them, but with zombies being the rage these days, I guess it was time for me to check this film out. It's a remake of the 1978 George Romero classic that I have yet to see, but as a stand-alone film, it's an effective scary film. It delivers the thrills, chills, and plenty of gore and blood.
This is the feature film debut of Zach Snyder and it's an impressive debut. It's about how this mysterious virus spread by human bites that kill humans and turn their bodies into the living dead after they die. A group of survivors head to a mall and there they fight with all they got against these flesh-eating monsters.
The acting is pretty good. I hear from other people that the acting is better than the original. Unlike most horror films, you get to care for the main characters and feel sympathy towards them. Sarah Polley is pretty good in the lead. Ving Rhames is very good as the hard-nosed cop and I liked Michael Kelly as the slimeball mall guard who goes through a change in personality over the course of the film.
Overall, this is all you can want in a horror film. It has good chills and the creature designs are excellent. The makeup is effectively scary. This is most likely the movie that started the zombie rage that is currently taking place. It's a fine horror movie, but nothing more than that. I was pleasantly surprised. I rate this film 8/10.