Paul Magne Haakonsen
And the DVD cover was so promising, but that illusion all shattered when I sat down and actually watched the movie. It was just abysmal, and I had to give up about 45 minutes into it, so I made it halfway through.This is supposed to be an interlinking trilogy of short stories taking place during a zombie apocalypse, but it just didn't function properly. First of all, there was vampires in one of the segments. Yeah, vampires! Secondly, there was a guy was was madly obsessed with his computer, and paid no attention to his wife or the zombie apocalypse outside the window, yeah, that was just so believable. And to make matters worse, then he had ordered some hard drive for his computer, which was delivered by mail. Yep, by mail, apparently during the end of days and a zombie apocalypse, the US Mail is still up and running. That just was just downright stupid! But it doesn't stop there, no! The hard drive apparently was some kind of living organism, capable of sending out tendrils to leech energy from living beings. I wonder who actually thought that this would be a great idea.I will say that the movie started out tremendously with lots of gore and mayhem, which was nice, and it looked promising, but wow it collapsed into a heap of rubbish so quickly. The stories are driven by laughable plots, bad dialogue and very little coherent connection between the three story lines. The acting, though, well at least that was bearable to behold. So at least the movie gets one point for having adequate actors and actresses on the cast.For a zombie movie, then "Edges of Darkness" was a horrible disappointment. There was about 5 good minutes worth of gore and mutilation in the 45 minutes that I managed to sit through. The rest that I saw was just rubbish. "Edges of Darkness" is hardly worth the effort, and I know now that it will be bagged, tagged and put on my DVD shelves never to be taken out again.As a zombie aficionado I was thoroughly bored and disappointed with this movie, and I wouldn't recommend that you pick it up, unless you are a fan of any of the people in the movie. It is an insult to the zombie genre.
Theo Robertson
This features several story threads set around a zombie apocalypse and for a low budget zombie horror film it does succeed in having an apocalyptic tone . It's both bleak and depressing as the film paints a scenario where zombies are about to replace humanity as the dominant species of Earth . Compare the atmosphere seen here with something like AUTUMN and you'll see how well directors Blaine Cade and Jason Horton have done in making the audience feel that the end of the world is genuinely taking place . Unfortunately they shoot themselves in the foot with their screenplay The film has three story strands 1 ) Catholic priests quest to execute a 12 year old boy who they consider to be the anti-Christ responsible for the apocalypse 2 ) A vampire couple protect a young woman if she'll allow them access to some of her blood 3 ) A couple whose marriage is on the rocks due to the husband's obsession with writing horror stories The problem is that these strands often don't tie in with the central story , try to do too much or suddenly change tone . The priests trying to find the anti-Christ child who is being protected by a Lara Croft clone could have and should have been the central focus of the narrative . The other two subplots often lack explanation and logic . The young woman in the care of the vampires is not what she seems but it's never satisfactorily revealed who or what she is . Considering humanity is about to become extinct why would anyone have a motivation for writing stories since it's obvious there's no one to sell the stories to . This subplot isn't helped by the fact that there's yet another subplot going on where the computer itself is becoming a sentient being that needs energy from other living things to remain alive ! There's so many things going on the stories that it could have kept the film company going in plots for a whole decade . This means the entire film ends up becoming totally unfocused and confused which is a great pity since EDGES OF DARKNESS has a genuinely downbeat and nihilistic atmosphere rarely seen in low budget zombie horror films
zfiany
I know that some will think that I gave better movies lower grades but this movie is an original zombie movie. I love Zombie movies and probably the best so far is "Dawn of the Dead". However, one should admit that this movie had originality. The movie wasn't aiming at showing a war between zombies and humans and this is a first! The war in this movie is pretty much more between the humans and their own selves as the human nature never changes even when is faced with extinction. A woman is still concerned with the issue of whether her husband still loves her or not! I mean you'd think how would a really sane woman ask her husband if he still loves her while zombies are roaming outside her windows! And the vampires part is just so smart... no zombie movie would give you that.And the most fascinating part which truly had me thinking and pleased me a lot is the anti-Christ child who says that he is fine with this world of treachery, lying and fast food while the real Christ wants this world to end! It's really genius if you just give it a thought.It's an original movie in a way... I liked it and I am sure there are others who appreciated the eccentricity of this movie.
zombieking1085
vampires, computer monsters and ZOMBIES oh my. I was on vacation visiting family in England and i happened upon this on T.V. it was sweet, My hats off to the director. It made me think a lot about what "21 days later" would have been like if it did not have a budget. I hope it gets released out here i looked for it but cant find it any where not even on netflix Loved the anti vampire thing great idea, and something i cant remember ever seeing before but i have to be honest I'm still a little confused as to what she actually was? Never the less i loved her, and the guy who played the vampire is it just me or is that guy a 20 year old Sammie Jackson.
