Aka: Devil’s Playground
Director: Mark McQueen
2010
Action/Horror
A major medical
corporation are about to release a new drug against stress. They take every
precaution keeping it safe and do massive testing with 30.000 volunteering test
subjects. At first everything seems to be fine but after at few weeks all of
the test subjects has evolved damaging side effects – All but one! At first
they became aggressive and soon they start attacking other people, spreading
the decease even further. Soon almost the entire city of London or the world
for all that we know is infected. But one of the test subjects – Angela Mills
seems to be immune to the side effects and no one knows why, she doesn’t and
the medical company or what’s left of it sure doesn’t. She needs to be found
and taken to the medical teams for thorough examination! The path leads through
hordes of zombie-like creatures that crave for human flesh.
I’ve seen my fair chair of zombie flicks. Bad
ones and good ones, unusual ones, Italian, Irish and even a couple of Chinese
ones I think. This one was produced in the UK
In this zombie film the zombies are raging fast
and there’s nothing of the old frightening slow horror zombie in it at all.
It’s not very frightening at all; it’s more or less an action film instead. I
have no complains about that. It doesn’t state that it’s a horror movie any
way. Well, of course it says so on the back of the DVD but I figure they claim
it’s a horror film just because there’s zombies in it. I say it’s an action
film first anyway!
The most common explanation for why the zombies
exist is also abandoned, that is the non explanation as it’s usually not
explained at all. They simply exist and there’s or there is to it. Here there is
a failed experiment, it’s been dome before to be sure but I’d take that before
“there’s no more room in hell” any day! It’s quite well acted and both the
action scenes and the gory ones look nice. It’s not a splatter- or a gore movie
but there are some scenes where the zombies eat from human victims and so
fourth. It looks really nice and the makeup of the zombies looks good too!
Perhaps it’s a little too talky at times. All zombie
flicks seem to take place, at one time or another, in a barricaded house of
some sorts and the people get on each others nerves, the paranoia takes it’s
toll I guess, and those scenes are a little too long in this otherwise fine
movie! It’s a little bit different but it’s quite entertaining!
