Better Late Then Never

A different way of telling a story

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Really this movie wasn't nearly as bad as some of the reviewers are saying...(It's not as bad as, let's say, Birdemic or something like that) It's a pandemic type movie but really more of an atmospheric thriller that just uses as pandemic as the background.My main issue with the movie was the editing - it was so poor and left a lot of things scratching your head. As an example, in one scene one of the main characters is kidnapped while one sleeps. It literally cuts from that to the sleeping character going out looking for her. It doesn't show him waking up, or hearing something that wakes him up, or him realizing what had happened and freaking out.There were a lot of similar gaps that unfortunately made the movie hard to understand in some parts. I'm assuming the director wants the audience to simply infer certain things about the plot and tried to use flashbacks to parlay important pieces of information regarding the back story, but it was done too choppily and poorly for that to work.However, overall it is still a decent movie. I love horror flms but the zombie genre has pretty much died out for me, and I appreciated that this was a pandemic style movie that really took it in its own direction.It's probably really worth a 6/10, but I felt bad looking at some of the other poor reviews so I gave it a 7/

This might have been a decent character-driven film, if any of the characters were interesting or likable.But, the trio of main characters are dull, listless, and depressing.It often feels like you're missing part of the movie. The interesting parts. Or the parts with the plot.And then there are the constant and annoying flashbacks. They're done in such a way that they;re hard to follow and do little to advance the plot or give us any real interest in the characters.I understand that this is supposed to be a mood movie, but the characters and their motivations seem implausible at best and unbelievable at worst, the plot is nearly non-existent, and what little suspense coupled be achieved is lost from poor direction and pacing.Avoid this one.

Some movies are so bad you can't help but wonder what the hell the filmmakers ever though they were doing. After watching The Dead Outside, I can only picture Kerry Anne Mullaney and Kris R. Bird sitting in an empty room and having the following conversation..."Let's make a movie like 28 Days Later, except we'll pick up the story long after all the exciting stuff has happened and just have the characters stand around and mumble to each other.""You're a genius! But let's also not explain any of the particular details of the story, fill it with fragmentary flashbacks to further muddle things up and then have a character lie on a sofa and describe the plot of what would essentially be a prequel to the film we're actually going to make.""I like where you're going but let's also have the storytelling and filmmaking get worse as the movie goes along. The dialog should become more insipid, the performances should go from minimalistic to practically coma-inducing, pieces of the plot should start to fall off like the film has leprosy and the editing must turn completely into crap.""The more you talk, the more excited I get about this project! I also think there needs to be an important scene where the soundtrack is so loud that no can understand what the actors are saying.""I couldn't agree more. It's like the two of us have only one brain!"After a neurological outbreak in Scotland which turned people into murderous, retarded hoboes, Daniel (Alton Milne) runs out of gas on the road and must take shelter in a seemingly deserted farmhouse which turns out to be the home of April (Sandra Louise Douglas). They sort of hang out and have dueling flashbacks to much more interesting periods in their lives until another person shows up. Kate (Sharon Osdin) seems about to drive a wedge between the deeply f'd up April and the whiny Daniel, then the Almighty Plot Hammer pounds Kate into the ground like a circus tent pole and the whole thing sputters to an ending that will leave you staring at the screen and wondering "Wait. Where did that come from?"This cinematic stinkburger is spoiled at the most basic of levels. Let me give you an example. A big plot point of The Dead Outside is that April is supposedly immune to whatever is turning folks into violent and unhygenic vagrants. However, the script never bothers to explain what is infecting people or how they get infected. The big revelation of April's immunity is in a scene where she's been handling the bodies of some infected dead and gotten their blood on her. But at no point is it established that the virus or whatever is transmitted through the blood. So, when April turns to face the camera with blood on her, this film is going "Ah ha!" while the audience is going "Uh…what?"After suffering through this thing, I decided to indulge my masochism and flipped over to the DVD extras to watch the trailer. I was expecting to see one of those trailers where you can tell the movie is going to suck, but this one kicked 37 different varieties of ass. It makes The Dead Outside look complex, dynamic and unnerving, which is about as big a miracle as Jesus doing that whole bread and fish thing. The person who made this trailer should have made the film instead. If Mullaney and Bird actually made it, they should be paid extremely well to create trailers for other movies but never allowed to make another motion picture themselves.The zombie apocalypse genre doesn't exactly have the highest standards, but this dishwater dull production can't even make it over that very low bar. Don't bother with The Dead Outside.

*SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* I thought this flick was 'average'. Not bad at all for it's budget, but it has some big flaws.No originality at all: The soundtrack sounds almost as if it was taken straight from 28 Days/Weeks later. There's nothing to bad in this, but it just makes you constantly remember that you are watching something that's not even in the same league.Overacting: The male lead was decent enough, but I found the two females really irritating. The main female overacts WAY too much, and to make it worse she acts like a 13 year old sulking because she can't have the new Miley Cyrus DVD. Put yourself in the characters situation - knowing that you are possibly the only cure for the disease, the only hope for mankind's survival...yet you choose to be alone and isolated in a farm house somewhere. Eventually the bullets/generator will run out and you are done! There's one scene where she's recalling what her grandparents did and it was painful to watch. Almost as if the character was supposed to have some mental deficiency, or actually supposed to be around 13 years old? The other female was a slightly better actress, but it just felt like she was in the wrong movie here. Actually, none of the cast really gelled together, which was what made it so uninteresting to watch.The way it was shot: I, quite frankly, got sick of the 'artsy' shots being filmed at a slight angle. The director filled the alarming lack of dialogue with constant shots of chickens, planks of wood, trees, fences (whilst slowly zooming in to the background), or the dog barking - which was a pointless 'part' of the film, as they even forget to take him at the end. Take out those parts and the film would have struggled to reach 50 minutes.The story: We get flashbacks of the males history, yet it's ultimately totally irreverent, as it leads to nothing. We get told toward the start that the drug he's taking only prolongs the infection to make it worse, so surely you'd have to end the movie with him 'turning'? Nope, we get the movie ending with the girl looking as annoyed as ever, and the guy just going into a house and shooting somebody. Earlier on he says something along the lines of "I could never become one of those vigilantes, it's sick". Errr? The infected also still seem to be able to think rationally and be quite coherent, so the barb wire to keep them out obviously shouldn't work, as I assume they'd be quite capable of walking up to the gate and opening it? if it was so affective, then why not just put more where the gate was smashed down by the van and stay at the farm house?I give it 5/10. Watch-able, but not something I'd end up recommending, or watching again.