The special effects in the film, the gore, is also pretty good, if you like that kinda thing. There's buckets of blood and lotsa chewing on body parts nee raw meat. The zombies look pretty cool and there are some interesting ideas going on here. One guy gets attacked by zombies while he's in the water. Another gets skewered to a rotating outdoor clothes line.
Nothing really looks phony.
The film is made interestingly enough at times. The opening credits sequence, though extremely long, has some nice shots of creepy birds. But this sort of nuance soon gives way to fairly typical camera work and DV cinematography. The only complaint I can make about the movie is the music, which is extremely bad. The score tunes are horrid.