Why so much hype?

Very well executed

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Most zombie movies of today are horrible at best...abysmal at worst. When you have such low expectations of a film, anything not horrible or abysmal, suffices.Some nice twists, some cliches. Typical CGI effects you'd expect from a SYFY Channel movie, but the makeup wasn't half bad. Don't pay to watch this movie, but if you can catch it for free, like I did, it's worth a watch.DEFINITELY not the worst I've ever seen.

This movie is terrible. I've rated hundreds upon hundreds of movies on IMDb and written biographical info for actors, characters, directors, etc. On SyFy, I expect campy movies along the lines of Sharknado or Roboshark. It's hard to get a real robot shark or to spawn a tornado full of sharks but zombies are pretty easy to create. The bar has been set high with The Walking Dead and with World War Z as far as makeup and effects.This movie could have been made by a group of audio/visual high schoolers. It's horrible. I hate to call movies horrible, but this one is by far one of the worst zombie movies ever made. From Cassie's sword never getting bloodied, no matter how many zombies she kills to the .50 machine gun firing with no ammo feeding into it to the atrociously CGI created fake blood. This movie is just one mistake after another and the acting is terrible.For a cast of semi-talented actors to tank this bad, means the writer, director, producers and FX guys were talentless. I was expecting "campy" and bad but not so bad that I'd shiver at thought of ever watching it again.The movie has absolutely no redeeming qualities. If I had Olivia Wilde walk up to me butt naked, carrying a pint of Guinness in one hand and this movie in the other hand, I'd kick her out of my house. It's worse than eating the decomposed ass out of a dead zombie cow.

-If your going to make a zombie movie, at least put some stock into your special effects and makeup teams. If the film is going to have a generic plot with wooden acting, at least give us some good eye candy instead of the horrible CGI crap that is rampant in this movie.-I see a lot of people comparing this to the Walking Dead, and while I will agree this movie does have a guy good at archery and the "coincidental" name drop of that guy "Kirkman", comparing this mess to the Walking Dead is a travesty and just flat out dumb. Read the comics and you will realize how creating a character works, and it translates well to the show.-The Walking Dead has very complex character development, it is very believable of how people would react and change in that kind of crazy situation. This movie doesn't even have a fraction of that. The characters are blocky and don't seem to be affected by events that should shatter them.-Ramona and Billy are some of the most irritating characters maybe ever.-Too much CGI, bad CGI.-I love the zombie genre so I figured why not, I wish i hadnt.STOP COMPARING THIS TO THE WALKING DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i came into this movie with extremely low expectations. this movie isn't that bad compared to the awful stuff syfy usually puts out. this movie plays out just like a video game, moving from safe house to safe house. the characters are all video game characters: the big black guy with a sledge hammer, the ethnic girl with the katana, the leader with a bat and a gun, the punk girl with the spiky hair rocking a bow and arrow. they have to fight waves of zombies and there is a mini-boss that they must find a chainsaw to defeat and then a final boss to beat the game. make up was good in the beginning but by the end it was people in masks. overall not bad.