Oh… wow. Be it my love for zombies or foreign films in general, or just the fact that I haven’t seen a decent film in ages, but this film almost blew my mind and I feel like exploding with joy.

All zombie films follow the same pattern; there’s a disease, someone gets infected, turns into a zombie, infects people around him/her, most become victims and few survive to witness all the horror. It’s a very simple and rather boring storyline, but for me that has never been the reason I love this genre so much. I’m not completely sure what it is, actually, there is just something compelling about these flesh-eating creatures that are solely driven by their instincts. And I love the fact how the infection traces back down to either bioengineering or some sort of virus cultivations, quite the things that are “hot” topics of today, and all these zombie films are apocalyptic fantasies of what might happen if something goes wrong with those experiments.

Back to the film itself. I didn’t like Angela that much, I thought she was extremely annoying at times, especially when she kept pestering Pablo to tell her what he sees. Now Pablo, the cameraman, was a very interesting character, since we never get to see his face, only hear his voice and apparently get to see what kind of shoes he wears. Of course, cameramen don’t usually shoot themselves but I still thought it was an interesting twist in the film.

I loved the ending. Loved, loved, loved it! So awesome, the film couldn’t have had a better ending, and the last 15 minutes or so – oohh, so suspenseful! Not scary, I hardly ever get scared by horror films, but so suspensive, I was glued to the screen (when I wasn’t leaning away from it in surprise) and that hasn’t happened in such a long time. And that… thing in the penthouse. With a hammer. What was it? Not that it really matters, I just thought it was the most brilliant thing I’ve seen in a long, long time, I was amused by my own comparisons (which I will not say here, because I’d surely insult someone).

Oh, I feel so hyper and happy right now, my only complaint is that I didn’t watch this sooner! This gets on the list of films I’ll definitely be watching again.

I have seen this movie at the Fantasy Film Nights in Hamburg. It was not an extremly exciting story, but interesting enough and I jumped in my seat quite often : )