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AvatarJustin
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

First of all, I would have Lightweighted this for time (9 minutes is very long for internet video!) but to be fair, I never established a time limit for this fight, so you didn\'t have any particular limit to cut to. (I\'m at work but I\'ll leave a full review later - love the effects!)

AvatarMcBainTiesLoafers
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

Love it! You got my vote.

Avatarviperacing1
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

This vid is by far the best one. (no offense to any other vids.) Although i agree 9 minutes is long, it didnt feel like 9 minutes, i was captured from the first shot. The effects were awesome. Nice foreshadowing throughout.I checked out the website that was stuck on your laptop, very funny. Good luck.

AvatarBryan Fox
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

How did this get added after the deadline?

Avatarhippojuicefilm
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

I don't know why it was put up late...but we submitted it last night.

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

We allow late submissions - the natural downside is obviously that you'll lose views and people's votes if you're not up right away.

AvatarBryan Fox
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

Hey, cool. A sequel to my movie. Sort of an odd nitpick but that isn\'t that gas mask supposed to come with a biohazard suit? The zombie makeup was excellent. I think you need a bit more lighting in your scenes and your audio would sound much better if it were overdubbed (try the Rodriguez method I talked about). I\'d definitely recommend submitting this to major film festivals if you killed any noticeable logos and replaced Obama voiceover with someone else to remove any legal hassles. I\'m thrilled a third person went the horror route this month.

Avatarhippojuicefilm
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

Thanks a lot Bryan! Yes, the gas mask does go to a bio-hazard suit. Problem was we literally found out about this on the 13th. We came up with the story, filmed and edited the entire video in less than 24hours and that was all we had on hand. Im very excited that we were even made heavy weights.

P.S. i agree with you about the audio, it could certainly be better. Thanks for the advice and all the best with your video.

AvatarJeremy
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

OH NOEZ Spoilers in the description...dont read, dont read. ah too late. now i know what happens.

I give this 2 snaps and a twist for all the hot mens in your movie! yea for using the FF logo at the beginning. hey, nice plug on your macbook pro. nice macbook pro. the bald dude totally looks like me in out movie Plan B http://www.vimeo.com/600993. haha. UB40. cool shot through the mask. wow. great gore effects. Erik must be doing something right over there at indy mogul. well, like I said on the other films, I will give a better review later on my webcam and post it int he forums. thanx for the awesome movie submission, guys!

Avatarhippojuicefilm
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

Thanks for the review.

Avatardrdoobious
Reviewed on April 15th, 2009

WOAH! Two zombie special delivers? Weird coincidence! The guy with the long hair looks like Fatty Baldwin, it\'s a compliment.

THe foreshadowing was a bit much, I felt beat over the head with it. Right now it\'s5 minutes in, and I\'m just waiting for the zombies haha. NOW if you have vampires show up, you will have blown my mind. I like that you used the obama thing. Zombie make-up was wicked tight. So comparisons to the other film with a zombie thing going on are kinda obvious...so I\'ll make it. What that one had was that you didn\'t see the zombie thing coming, I really would have liked to be a bit more surprised. On the flip side, your guys zombie was awesome,and the \'mood\' throughout was pretty solid Cheers.

Avatarhippojuicefilm
Reviewed on April 16th, 2009

Thank you very much for compliments and criticism alike. We really could of made it a bit less obvious.

AvatarRagekage5
Reviewed on April 16th, 2009

This was really well done! The zombie makeup was really awesome! Filming and editing were very, very well done. Great Job! I thoroughly enjoyed it!! You got my vote!

AvatarLetneper
Reviewed on April 16th, 2009

The movie really shines near the end when we\'re looking through the mask, and you can hear that breathing. That stuff gave great tension. Wow for making this in such a short amount of time, you did very well. Kudos to you!

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on April 16th, 2009

Haha, you gotta love a film that starts with a dude on the shitter.

I like these two characters. My Macmini audio is shit so it\'s hard to hear some of the dialogue. You guys have good visuals and good light, good angles, shame when audio and audio levels are discarded. You can get a cheap mini-jack mic for like $30 on ebay and a cable extender for $5 at radio shack. invest!

Ah, plugged in speakers, that\'s better.

I feel like you\'re white balance is shifting (2:30)

\"I can\'t take it on the bus nate!!\" - great line delivery, great line.

This music is familiar ---soundtrack perhaps? Yeah I agree that the foreshadowing is a bit long. Already at the 4 min mark and most movies would already be wrapped by now. (4:19) I like the lighting in this shot. Good colors in the background too. Nicely setup living room. Colorful.

I like your actors a lot. Did you shoot this with two cameras? Cut seem good, makes it seem possible. (5:59) I like the abrupt \"bzzt\" with the tv turning on. I\'d rather see the character listerning to the news report instead of actually seeing it - the news set doesn\'t look that great or believable. Hahah -- Obama talking! Awesome. Too bad he hasn\'t given a speech about zombies. Loooove the helmet cam! That\'s so great!

(7:31) Great green color outside!!! Great color in this! Can\'t say it enough. Did you gel anything or just color correct it. BFX made a good zombie effect :D W2G Erik.

(8:14) not sure I\'m liking these camera angles during the attack. I don\'t feel very connected with the guy who\'s being attacked and I feel like that\'s part of how it was shot --- would have loved to see the helmet cam used more in that sequence - heck the whole thing could have been great from just the helmet cam --- ahh awesome, you ended with helmet cam! I wish you would have credits and some music at the end honestly. Or maybe credits rolling at the start of the thing, it\'s so long you\'ve def got leeway to do that.

Really nice film. Even for being 9 min.

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on April 16th, 2009

PS > do you guys want me to change your description to remove the spoilerz?

AvatarOutlawPictures
Reviewed on April 17th, 2009

Very cool stuff here. Great zombie effect as already mentioned. Really liked the Obama dub, VERY nice touch.

All in all I\'d say it\'s as physically good as can be within your time constraints. Although I will agree it was a tad too long. Could\'ve been a solid 4-5min film.

Nice job though fellows!

Avatarmmg10821
Reviewed on April 23rd, 2009

The greenish effect that is used when the Zombies are approaching is superb. Great makeup effects! I LOVEE the ending. Great job!

Avatartherev
Reviewed on April 24th, 2009

Stream of conscienceness review.

First thing. This is.. 9 minutes!? C\'mon. We really need to stop letting such long movies in. Gross ass. Cool to see you guys used a BFX tutorial. It definitely looks like you guys know what you\'re doing though. Shot structure is nice, and I like the pink house. I like the delayed \"nife\" comment. The voices are kind of hard to hear. Might wanna\' get a new mic. I may not watch this whole thing honestly. It looks cool, but I have a short attention span, and 9 minutes is gonna\' kill my brain. The acting is really good so far. I scrolled away and looked at the reviews for a bit, but came back 2 minutes later and still know what\'s going on, that\'s a good sign that your scene is a bit too long. I like the ring tone. There\'s a lot of zombies, and dead people this week. G\'z kids! I like the idea of \"I\'m not gonna\' be here\" too late. I\'ve done that before. haha. Nice green to pink shots. I likey. Very zombie vibe. Is Obama gonna\' talk about Zombies? I don\'t remember that speech. This is picking up a bit now. Too bad it took 7 minutes to get there. Really cool shot of the zombie a the window. That\'s a frightening ass fucking zombie. I think i\'d be scared of that dude if he wasn\'t. He\'s a big mofer. Cool punches too. Now, again. 7 minutes of this. Maybe woulda\' liked it a bit better. Grosss head stab. Love it. Cool fight scene. Nice music. Cool shot through the mask. Nice ending.

Overall: This woulda\' been great had it been about 5 minutes shorter. Seriously coulda\' had my vote. But, it really needed a good amount more of editing done to it. Nice shots, acting, and music. Just woulda\' benefitted signifigantly from getting cut down.

Thanks for submitting! Hope I see you guys next month.

AvatarJustin
Reviewed on May 31st, 2009

Congrats! Write your \"smack talk\"!

AvatarWeberstudios
Reviewed on September 27th, 2010

Tripod is showing in allot of the shots. :/

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