Wow. I can't think of a less entertaining zombie flick in my experience, in my entire life. The writing was the biggest tragedy of all. There were far too many bad lines for any one movie. Every scene with any potential was annihilated by at least one remark of absolutely ludicrous proportion. The responses to said remarks were more often than not, even worse. When you start rooting for the monsters and couldn't care less if any - and I mean ANY - of the characters survive, you have lost entertainment value. The three famous actors brought on board, Anthony Michael Hall, Darryl Hannah, and Shirley Jones, left us no doubt as to why their careers fell into oblivion long ago. They really weren't any good at even one scene between them. Bills gotta get paid, I guess... I was looking forward to something better given 2011's way more exciting and better written, ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. Hopefully Syfy Channel can come up with a few more dollars again in future, and hire actual screenwriters.

Horrible... Atrocious..Anemic..Vanilla... I find it surprising that Anthony Michael Hall did this film. He had his niche series with The Dead Zone, which his acting was acceptable for the genre and for the other producers and directors associated with it. It was low budget but had a good story line. You have a pretty good character actor in Alan Ruck whose talent is wasted and covered by the horribly poor acting of Shirley Jones and Darryl Hannah. We expect that from Shirley and Darryl though. Ruck and Hall were the only two actors that had the ability to somewhat carry this movie but the plot line is so thin and the movie only concentrates on gore, which the FX dept fails to help. This movie is low budget, has a horrible story line and is so bad that I expected Lou Diamond Phillips to make a cameo in it at some point. 2 families attacked by zombies at night. The attack miraculously ends with daybreak so they're like zombiepires or Vamzoms... I could have dipped my big toe in an ink well, taken an ambien and gone to sleep and woke up with a better script written in blurry ink on my bed sheets. No one in this movie is acting. The actors that are supposedly zombies don't act much like zombies in the traditional sense. One man could have opened his panic room, let the other family in, and they could have all survived. It's so bad that it can't be called "campy". I'd watch Ragin Cajun Redneck Gators 10 times before I'd watch this movie again, and I've watched the movie twice tonight just because I couldn't believe how bad it was the first time that I thought I had missed something. Nope, it's that bad.

This is probably not a valid review because I turned off the movie after the first 15 minutes, it was so awful. Reading some of the advance reviews, I thought it might have a chance, but no. Then I thought, a movie with Shirley Jones can't be all that bad, right? But all I saw was a hysterical Nana character screaming and being hysterical. The exploding car at the start. What's with that? What caused it to explode? And how come they conveniently (for the film makers, apparently) were right next to a cemetery? I know, I know ... for the zombies to arise from their graves. I couldn't see subjecting myself to two hours of people trapped in a house, waiting for the dawn, screaming and fighting with each other. If I wanted that, I'd just have to remember when my kids were small and fighting on a rainy day. Nope, I changed the channel.