Days of Darkness
by Jake Kennedy
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Actor: John Lee Ames, Roshelle Baier, Sabrina Gennarino, Tom Eplin, Travis BrorsenDirector: Jake Kennedy
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Tom Eplin
Cinematographer: Brandon Trost
Writer: Jake Kennedy
Editor: William Daniels
Producer: Kurt Anderson
Producer: William Clevinger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- Actors: Tom Eplin, Sabrina Gennarino, Travis Brorsen, Roshelle Pattison, John Lee Ames.
- Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC.
- Language: English. Subtitles: English, Spanish.
- Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only).
- Rated R. Run Time: 90 minutes.
DVD Reviews of Days of Darkness
DVD Review: Not bad for being "that soap opera zombie movie"...
Summary: 4 Stars
Days of Darkness (Jake Kennedy, 2007)
The tagline for this flick is "2 billion zombies. 11 humans. Get ready to rumble." That should probably clue you in to the fact that you're not supposed to take this movie seriously. Yet it seems a lot of people did, and I'm not entirely sure why. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that this movie, thanks to its stars--Tom Eplin and Sabrina Gennarino, both of whom have appeared in soap operas in the recent past--attracted a crowd to this movie who may not be used to horror movies, and certainly not to low-budget ones made by people enough in love with the genre that the movie is peppered with in-jokes. To be fair, there are some movies like this that attract the non-horror crowd successfully (okay, I can only think of one, Final Destination), but really, flicks like this are made by horror fans for horror fans. I realize I should take points off for that sort of thing when I'm reviewing a movie, but you know, I had an awful lot of fun with this movie, and I'm inclined to simply take it for what it is, which is a slight, shallow, incredibly fun zombie flick with a really, really warped sense of humor. In other words, a movie that was pretty much tailor-made for me.
It even starts off with one of my favorite conceits--the world goes to hell while the protagonists aren't looking. Steve (TV character actor Travis Brorsen) and Mimi (Roshelle Pattison from the forthcoming, and highly-anticipated, Child Reduction Act) are up on a mountain high above the city camping. They fall asleep, wake up until the next morning, and pow. What happened during the night? The opening credits lead me to believe it had something to do with a weird blue meteor, but I'm not entirely sure. Not that it matters. We see the result, and that's enough. The result: everyone in the world (well, except nine others, as you can tell from the tagline) has become the living dead. Of course, these two hook up with the other nine after getting saved from their first zombie attack. You've seen these archetypes in many a zombie film before, most transparently in Romero's Day of the Dead; there's the militaristic folks who want to blow everything up, the curious scientific types, those who just want to curl up in a little ball until it all goes away, etc. As with all good zombie movies, the zombies themselves are usually backdrop, and the real action of the film centers on the interactions between the survivors. And man, I'll tell you, some of these folks are downright creepy, especially for a movie as otherwise lighthearted as this. That's one of the things that, in my opinion, really makes this movie work, despite its many flaws; these characters are really interesting. Despite the movie being basically plotless, and much of the acting being of the competent-at-best variety, these characters are just plain fascinating, both in the ways they interact and their personalities.
Of course, as the movie's IMDB rating and many of its comments there show, the public thinks much differently when it comes to Days of Darkness. So I can't just recommend it for everyone. But if you're a fan of silly zombie movies, this is an absolute must, and I think even the casual horror fan will get something out of it. Just don't go in expecting the next Return of the Living Dead and you should be fine. *** ½
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