Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

loomis78-815-989034 An accident at a nearby chemical plant has turned an entire community into a virus infected undead. As the story begins Jim (Hayden) is trying to tend to his fatally wounded fiancée Emilie (McKenna Jones) who was attacked by one of the infected. Jim finds shelter inside a horse stable and quickly closes things up tight. He must face the disturbing fact that Emilie is going to die. He listens to the radio and watches TV gaining information. He is awoken to sounds inside the stable which lead to a thrilling and scary showdown between himself and a zombie which has found his way in. Out of the blue he gets a phone call at the stable from Scott (Lilly) a survivor who is holed up in a warehouse across from the stable and invites Jim to join him. Jim makes his way over and joins Scott, his wife Julie (Norman) and a girl named Ix (White) who initially clashes with Jim. Jim quickly becomes the leader of the small band of survivors as they fight for survival as the infected become aware of their presence. A romantic relationship is brewing between Ix and Jim when she takes ill. The group await rescue but need medicine dropped by the military in the area for Ix to survive. Jim ventures out in a thrilling scene to obtain it. State of Emergency is an excellent low budget horror film that plays with the zombie genre. Writer/Producer/Director Turner Clay crafts a small and simple zombie film that reflects how you and I might react of something like this happened. Jim is an ordinary guy and so are the other characters. In other words, these guys aren't hitting the bull's-eye every time they point a gun at a zombie and shoot. They miss and try again like we would if we were in that type of stressful situation. Clay makes all these characters believable and keeps his movie the same way giving it real credibility over many bigger budgeted zombie films flooding the market. We care about these people and want them to survive and are truly on their side, like in George Romero's first two Dead films. Clay plays with the genre in interesting ways like the zombies themselves. Many times they are just standing in the middle of a field waiting to react to sounds they hear or something they see. They are ferocious when they need to be and the film has some decent gore. The small cast, low number of infected and minimal locations would sink a lesser film but this one actually benefits from it because of its strong characters. The film definitely delivers many tense situations and scenes that deliver the horror goods along with solid scares. The cast is good with lead Jay Hayden turning in a great performance as Jim. Turner Clay in a truly breath of fresh air, memorably ends his film in such a deeply emotional way that takes his film to another level.

StylinRed More in line with Night of the Living Dead rather than what we've seen from today's zombie films. Not to say that this lacks zombies, there is actually a nice steady stream of them. This is definitely worth the watch and the calibre of production is exemplary! In no way do you ever feel as if you are watching a bargain basement title, far from it! The team did a fantastic job with what looks like a warehouse and barn and they made it scary!The acting is another surprise because we've come to expect sub par acting or even student actors from these low budget films but again that is not the case in this movie! the majority of the cast does a good job while the minority is still passable.As my title says this was surprisingly good, definitely put this on your list especially if you are making a Halloween movie list :)

joliver82 I Netflixed this one last night just as a quick "go to bed" movie since Im such a sucker for cheesy zombie films. That being said, Ill have to give kudos to the movie. It felt very 28 Days Later-ish. It had some really good and suspenseful, sometimes very dark scenes at the beginning which pulled me right in and surprisingly held my attention the whole way through. The acting by some of the characters is not necessarily top notch, but Jim in the movie really makes up for it. I thought the plot was well done for this genre - I mean how unique does a good zombie movie need to be? The cinematography was really good for a lower budget film I thought, even for a movie with limited sets - it still had me all the way through.Clean-cut zombie fun! I give it 7 stars.

George Taylor While looking for something apocalyptic to watch, I stumbled on this and, after reading the many positive reviews, decided to access it on Netflix. Boy did I make a mistake. The reviews are correct, this isn't a zombie movie, as the people who have been exposed to a chemical leak are just rage filled (sound familiar) lunatics who only want to kill. I really don't know what movie (which this barely qualifies as) were watching, but it couldn't have been this. A derivative of 28 Days Later, this film is boring, unoriginal and has an incredibly lame ending. I don't even think this would count as a film school project. Just poor execution all around, and not one original idea in it. For an apocalyptic completist only.