Director: Thomas J. Churchill
Year: 2022
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie
Plot:
Following a devastating chemical explosion, the staff at a small-town police station find themselves forced inside the building when toxic rain from the explosion is released, but when they find that the dead have come back to life following the incident must put their issues aside to escape the threat.
Review:
This wasn't too bad of a genre effort for the most part. One of the better features here is a generally solid setup that features quite a lot to like in regard to the structure of the film. Opening on the main explosion at the chemical plant and the resulting chaos that arrives once the soldiers arrive to face the evitable, the series of incidents coming from that including a toxic chemical cloud over the area affecting those in the area mixes quite well with the exploits at the broken police station at the same time.
As this setup establishes the setup with the introduction of the acid rain and the exploits of the disheveled police station, the introduction of the zombie action here is rather nice. Seeing the early features of the rain melting them down and them bringing the individual back to life, there's enough featured here to know their origin status to them make the series of attacks while stuck inside the station come off rather well as the crumbling facility, lack of personnel and the interpersonal relationships keeping everything from going they expect.
As this introduction to the zombies comes off quite well, the rest of the encounters in the second half are quite fun with the infected stalking and attacking others in the darkened station. Unaware of the true state of the emergency and forced to battle the creatures who've become resurrected and overwhelming the location, the fun that emerges once they're forced to finally get away is filled with some solid gunplay, decent gore effects on the kills and some surprisingly fun zombie make-up. Overall, these factors manage to generate some positive aspects.
The film does have some issues with it. One of the biggest factors here is a highly unnecessary subplot here involving the capture of a serial killer being held there for an interview with TV reporters which adds unneeded complications to the story while stretching out the running time. That ties into the other factor here where this one takes quite a while with the office issues and personal struggles to get to the zombie action sooner, especially as it opens on the explosion so the overloaded time on these other issues stall the film getting to the points which are what hold this back.
Overview: ***/5
A generally solid indie zombie effort, there's enough to like here that it manages to hold itself up over a small of series of somewhat detrimental flaws. Those viewers who appreciate this style or approach in an indie effort might have a lot to like while those who don't like any of these factors should heed caution with this one.
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