Survivors (I) (2015) User Reviews

I want to go home

[nogodnomasters · 3/10 · 13 November 2017]

The film opens with some very bad hand held footage of Duke (Simon Burbage) and Katherine June (Joanne Gale) filming a documentary on the MEDEA group performing mutated virus testing on human subjects, where the subjects have gone missing. After some bad scenes of Kate messing with her hair and out of focus filming of the gate, the film changes into a plot and subplot. One story continues on from this point while the other half is Kate looking for Duke, minus the hand held footage, but the same jerky shooting. Kate meets a man (David Anderson) who helps her find Duke, a man she doesn't trust but has to. We don't find out how they got separated until 53 minutes into the film when we shortly return to one plot line.

This is NOT a zombie film, it is an infection film and not a very good one at that. The film was boring. Dialogue was boring. Editing and filming were bad. They managed not to screw up the sound, but used a deplorable sound track. I film better with my $200 dollar camera. There is no need to make the filming this bad to attempt realism. Tripods are actually cheap, lightweight and can fold up into a small bag.

Horror consists of a few people with blood on their face and a person getting blown up off screen. There appears to be a poorly developed twist at the end.

If you really want to watch a funny zombie indie film, try "Night of the Living Deb" instead.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

Slow and... yawn.

[paudman · 3/10 · 13 March 2022]

Once I realised that the entire first segment of the movie was a girl talking to a camera, and a cameraman who can't seem to communicate any other way except by filming, even in private conversations in hotel rooms, I turned off. This sort of style has been long overdone; it's not realistic, it's hard to watch, and hard to understand. Who is the cameraman? Why is he always hidden behind the camera? Why does he need to film 24 / 7, even the most trivial boring everyday things? Eventually I found that I didn't care. A slow start that petered to a halt. I've given it three stars as there's a faint chance I may go back and watch in fast-forward. The only disease I saw was boredom and boy was it contagious.

needs sound mixed properly

[corytrevorson · 3/10 · 26 January 2021]

Dialog is too low and the rest is too loud. Everything sounds overly bassy. It's hard to understand the characters. I tried to use subtitles but it was obvious whoever did the subtitles couldn't understand the dialog either. A shame because it seems like it might have been a decent low-budget flick.

Takes boring to a whole new level

[orionhi · 1/10 · 22 January 2022]

There were so many opportunities to add some action, excitement, tension, missed the opportunity every single time. This movie takes boing to a new level. It seemed so simple. Add some action. I'm not even a filmmaker and I could have greatly improved this snooze fest. What was this director trying to do? This is the movie equivalent of a shot of NyQuil.

Kill me please

[biohazard297-413-354858 · 1/10 · 27 January 2020]

This movie is so boring I want my 10 minutes of my life back. Acting is so bad you want run away from your tv. They is no action at all don't watch it if you want stay awake.

Very good slow burn

[kqbr · 7/10 · 29 January 2023]

To be clear, zombie movies come in a number of styles. Fast zombies, slow zombies, rage virus zombies, WWZ action zombie movies, Shawn Of The Dead funny zombie movies, Warm Bodies romantic zombie movies, etc. The list is long.

This is a slow burn movie similar to The Battery or Maggie. It starts with a reporter who stumbles onto a story about a bioweapon virus killing people around the same time that the virus jumps to the general population. There are several subplots going on at the same time, before and after the virus hits.

The story itself is pretty straightforward, with suspense and mystery aided by the time jumps. This movie is more about the highs and lows that humanity is capable of when pushed by extreme circumstances than dealing with a zombie menace. If you need zombies chasing people down, it's not for you. If you like people trying to navigate a new world because of zombies, you might like it. If you appreciate slow building suspense movies with a great score, this is for you.

Beautifully Scored, Overall Pretty Good

[RyanCallaway · 8/10 · 25 January 2020]

The only real downside to the movie is that the zombie action isn't very impressive, to put it mildly. There aren't many scenes that are really anything close to scary once the initial tension passes. The first 45 minutes or so are very suspenseful and seemed to be building to something very frightening. Instead it went another direction and although it was disappointing, it was well done. The characters were very well developed, the story and emotions were authentic and the main actors did a great job. What really set it apart for me though was the moody score. It's beautiful, depressing, haunting, and really elevated the film and keeps the quieter moments more engaging than they should've been. Also kudos to the writer for actually coming up with a good ending - something many movies struggle with these days.

Slow and steady, but as a kind of Uk indie-survivor-apocalypse (ie not Zombie) film, I really loved this

[dj-87231 · 9/10 · 7 December 2020]

DO watch if you like slow gentle ambience type smouldering, English style, home/found footage type stuff (over done these days but I like the way it's used here), with some class performances put in by the main actors who all understate things to good and I found powerful effect. Put to a really atmospheric score too. DONT watch if you want action/gore/zombie madness. This film is about loss and I like the indie-feel way it's done. Class act.