Now I went into this movie without any expectations, and without any clue as to what the story was about and now the only thing going through my head when the credits starting rolling was the pure and utter disappointment that this wasn't a movie about some kind of lake creature attacking unsuspecting sunbathers.
I'm severely disappointed by this, otherwise it wasn't a bad movie, but I also wouldn't go as far to say that it was good. I feel that I'd have enjoyed this a lot more if I wasn't so good at guessing plot twists, but that's more of a me problem than a problem with the movie. The characters were strong and the acting was decent, there wasn't really much room for character development which I think actually works in the favour of this movie since I feel the director was trying to have as unlikable characters as possible, so that the audience hated them, I think that was the whole point. I will say there were a couple plot holes I noticed but nothing that really took away from the story.
Ultimately it was pretty enjoyable, I'd probably watch it again now that I know what it's about just to go through any other details that I might have missed whilst waiting for a lake monster that didn't appear.
It took me 4 attempts to make it through this movie.
I personally don't see what the fuss is all about, I don't see the hype and I don't see what makes it scary. I've never tried to enjoy a movie as much as I tried to enjoy this one but I just can't, I'm sorry, I found it predictable and dull. I understand this is a "slow-burn" but there's a difference between slow-burn and an utter snooze-fest. Nothing shocked me, nothing scared me or drew me into the story, it just felt like a bland experience, something completely forgettable.
The acting was all over the place, and either I'm missing something or the story-line didn't make any sense. It felt choppy and mismatched and whilst I've noticed some critics saying that they hated the characters I can't say I agree because to hate something you have to care about it, and I just just didn't care about any of them.
Ultimately I wouldn't even call this a thriller, let alone a horror. If you like self-torturing yourself with awful movies then please, feel free to give this a go, I hope you enjoy it more than I did, but if you want strong characters, a decent story-line, good acting, and any character development I'd suggest you look elsewhere for your movie choice.
I'm a person who thrives on B-Rated or generally just awful movies, I love to laugh at them, so when I say that this movie was beyond bad, beyond comically bad, that is definitely saying something.
Never before have I watched a movie and genuinely wanted to get a lobotomy afterwards just to erase it from my mind. Not only did it feel like the entire movie was in slo-mo, but the storyline itself was just abysmal. It made no sense. Now I know horror movies (and I say horror more in air-quotes when referencing this particular movie) often have pretty bad plot lines, especially supernatural, but this takes the cake.
The characters were just completely unlikeable, I think between all the characters you probably have enough substance for one singular somewhat decent character, everything that was said or done during this movie was just fully questionable... I genuinely don't have the words beyond "huh?", "what?", and "okay then"... The "twists" were both unsurprising and totally in fitting with how absolutely mind-numbingly dull this movie was. I watched this with friends and one of them genuinely fell asleep and honestly, he got off lucky there, he didn't have to watch the rest of this spectacular disaster.
Now, if this movie was 10 minutes long however, that would be fine, but instead I wasted 92 minutes of my life this. I wish I could rate this zero stars, yet another disappointment.
Please, I beg you, if you have any sanity left do not watch this movie.
Firstly, why is the stalker zombie the only one who isn't just mindless? Secondly why is literally everyone in this movie so absolutely brain dead (no pun intended), the stalker zombie is actually more intelligent than most of the humans. The only character who had any kind of survival instincts was portrayed as the bad guy, everyone else is blindly following a doctor who has racked up one hell of a body count by the end of the movie but don't worry guys... She made the vaccine so it's a happy ending? This movie neglects to address the fact that she didn't cure the zombie virus so the zombies are still a problem and if I've learnt anything from zombie lore they won't just bite you once and think "ah okay that's enough for me" you better believe they will rip you to shreds and a vaccine ain't gonna do shit about that, your organs ain't gonna slurp back inside your body and you'll be miraculously healed
If you want to sit back, and relax with a movie you can constantly mock over a bad storyline, bad acting, and terrible characters then by all means, have at it, I hope you have as much of a blast poking fun at this as I did, but if you want to actually unironically enjoy the movies you watch I'd steer clear of this one.
Ironic Rating (purely comedic level) 6/10
Unironic Rating 2/10
