Very well executed

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It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Steven Seagal stars in a horror film where he has to battle against vampires ! The premise alone made me want to watch this and it wasn't until I came to this site that I found out this was Seagal's first horror movie . The downside to AGAINST THE DARK is that if it wasn't for the dubious star name in the cast then the film wouldn't have much appeal outside the hard core horror market . It's one of those movies that differs very little than most of the other ones broadcast on SyFy and The Horror Channel It's unoriginal and derivative and in this case owes an awful lot to 28 WEEKS LATER with characters trying to escape a lair populated by infected creatures and an army officer on the outside wanting to sterilize the area regardless of whether people are infected or not . What I find difficult to believe is that the film cost 7 million dollars because there's a very limited number of small sets which are poorly lit and a small cast with no well known faces except for Seagal and Keith David . So was this film made as a tax scam or what . Even if it cost half that there's no way it would have made a profit

A virus has wiped out most of the world's population. The virus turns its victims into blood thirsty zombies and is spread by fluid contact into a cut or wound. There is no cure. The military are trying to control the virus by destroying infected areas. A team of zombie hunters are conducting a sweep of a zombie infested hospital for survivors before the facility is bombed by the military.The movie was released direct to video and had a budget of $US7 million.The zombie hunters led by Steven Seagal are constrained by the virus, so there is minimal physical contact during the fighting and the predominant use of guns and a long (kitana) sword (although knives are also used).The film (horror genre) creates tension through use of dark lighting as the survivors make their way through the locked down hospital with the power threatening to fail, while under constant attack by the zombies. The hunters meanwhile are trying to find them. And the military are about to destroy the building.The script however is the biggest problem. There is inconsistency about those infected - are they zombies, mutants or vampires. Steven Seagal's fights are constrained to a sword and shot gun by the threat of the virus, and not the usual hand to hand combat, which is fair enough. However he appears to have attempted to reduce the visibility of his weight gain by wearing a full length leather coat. The survivors never pick up a club to defend themselves and have a habit of constantly getting separated from each other as a plot technique to create additional tension. There is plenty of gore - low budget gore however.If you ignore the script and ignore the survivors that don't know how to defend themselves and have many lucky escapes, the film does create tension and has plenty of gore. As a fan of Steven Seagal, I have given a generous 4 out of 10.

I gave this movie a chance. I have to admit I went into it expecting it to suck, so maybe my lowered expectation had something to do with it, but the movie starts off like many others describing the disaster, we meet the survivors and meet Seagal and his crew. We cut between the survivors and the hunters until they meet up. This was actually better than many of the film's he's been in.Much of the issue comes from Seagal being part of an ensemble cast. While he got a lot of the spotlight, the film simply wasn't about him. While he is billed as a lead to help sell the film there's a lot more going on here.So I'm going to give this movie a 7. As an action horror film it was pretty good. Wasn't on the level of some, but it was good. And the creatures are cool too, they're like a mix of vampire and zombie. Seagal and his team do kick a lot of butt, so that can't be the reason as to why so many people hate on this film. I will admit Seagal didn't do a ton of Akido, but the fight scenes are still pretty good.

Short and simple, it was annoying. A decent movie with some cool camera techniques, but it was un-original and very irritating. The characters were complete idiots. The little girl was annoying, the women were quite stupid, and the men were failures (except for the two hunters). Without spoiling anything, this was basically how it went every time: 4 people are together. 1 of them goes to explore ahead. A zombie comes. The other 3 instantly "run!" without even helping the other person. Oh look, that 1 person killed the zombie, so they can move on. Wait, the other 3 ran back to where they started from and now they're all split up. Too bad.Complete idiots. They deserved to die. By the mid-section of the movie, I was rooting for the zombies. That aside, the rest was okay. Nothing great, but an average movie just to enjoy. Definitely bloody and gory, the action scenes were great, and it had a cliché but watchable plot.All together it's not too shabby, not great, completely annoying, but watchable.