Director: James Cullen Bressack
Year: 2013
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Returning home from a camping trip, a man and his friends witness his wife going crazy and rush her to the hospital where he realizes the rest of the staff and patients have gone berserk except for a visitor who they find out together that they’re born on Leap Day and must try to get to safety before being killed.
Review:
On the whole, this one was decent enough effort. One of the better features here is the slowly encroaching and building mystery about what’s going on. The mention of the time screwiness is a solid way to get this going on a nice subtle note, which goes along nicely with the demented, bizarre behavior here from the attacks in the hospital by the cursed patients which the two survivors have to battle through to the delusional antics of the friends stuck at home. These provide this one with plenty of action and bloodletting with the crazed patients attacking everyone in sight with intensity and aggression and even manages to provide a strong finale with the antics inside the house at night where everyone comes together for a rather dark and enjoyable finale. These here are what really hold this one up.
This one does have some flaws though. Among the biggest issues is the completely underwhelming and outright confusing narrative for the reason to have the population go crazy. A singular conversation about the entire cause relating to the true reason for leap year being used to add on another month, but the conversation itself is never mentioned again nor is there any reason brought up about the importance of the situation. Nothing about the original cause of the holiday adding a new month makes any sense as to why people are going crazy or what being born on a leap day means in terms of them being invulnerable from the attack. The idea is solid enough but the whole motivating factor about the date’s significance to starting everything should've been mentioned.
There’s also the really troubling factor of the inconsistencies regarding the affected and how they behave. The initial stages featuring the infected acting as if in a trance regarding performing a mindless task over and over again when others are simply stark raving mad from the duration of the time we’ve been around them. Moreover, the constant snapping and pettiness that’s supposedly created by offering rude, sarcastic or shadowy threats by the staff go completely against the friends at his house who are simply going through a variety of weird, bizarre performances that range from psychotic torture, master-slave domination and finally paranoid delusions about a Korean War general which goes against all the established behavior shown from the other infected who turn on each other instantly. These here are where the film falls flat.
Overview: **.5/5
A generally fun effort that has a lot to like in terms of action and effects but missing the ball on getting to the point of it all, there’s some likable aspects as well as some detrimental factors that make this one somewhat middling. Give this a look if you’re a fan of these indie-efforts or looking for a moderately entertaining time-waster, while those looking for something more consistent might heed caution here.
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