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Sabbath (2008)

Director: William Victor Schotten
Writer: Laura Seli
Synopsis: When the last soul enters heaven and the first sinner is shut out of hell life as we know it will cease to exist. Geller runs for her life from the bloodthirsty zombies that seem to have over run her small town. For help during end times she turns to Mack (a criminal), two shady brothers and a faithless Reverend. Geller and her new friends are on the run from roving hoards of zombies, shadow demons and the Grim Reaper!

My head hurts...

1) ACTING: Usually, when it comes to low budget / no budget indies, I try to be lenient, but DAMN! The quality of acting here was pretty low. The male lead seems to mumble through all his lines unless he's screaming or yelling at someone. The two baseball players are just terrible. I would have to say the best actor here was the actress that played the character of Geller, but that's really not saying a lot.

2) PRODUCTION: Here, I believe is the best part of the movie. I felt that the filming was good, scenes were well lit, and characters and action scenes were well focused. The music / soundtrack was effective in conveying a creepy, unnerving 'Silent Hill' type of background. That's about all I have that's good to say. The Grim Reaper was just another actor in a hooded robe with a scythe, the zombie make up was minimal at best, and a lot of the CG is iffy at best. The plot isn't necessarily bad, it's just that it never seemed to be fleshed out, and the viewer is left with many questions that go unanswered, such as 'Why is this happening?"

3) ZOMBIES: The zombies in this one pretty much the Romero Shamblers that we've all grown to love, but occasionally, a Snyder Runner would pop in. The zombie make up ( as mentioned above) was pretty minimal and consisted of white / grey faces with raccoon eyes and little to no facial applications.

4) THE CAUSE: No explanation is given, other than it is "the end of days."

5) NUDITY: None. (Not that it would've helped)

FINAL:
YOWSA! This was a pretty rough watch. I think this is one of the rare times where I have actually enjoyed the quality of the filming than anything else in a movie. For something to be so bad, but to look so nice was bizarre. The Director, William Victor Schotten, has done better things previously, and I was surprised to find this movie so disappointing. It's like he just stopped by for the paycheck. Sadly, I can not recommend this one at all. Give 'Sabbath' a pass.

RATING:
1 out of 5