Donald Buehler Drama? Comedy? Apocalyptic horror? Yes to all three. This has all the elements needed to make a great story. It will appeal to horror fans - 2nd amendment enthusiasts - doomsday preppers - conspiracy theorists - gun enthusiasts - even pregnant ladies!!!!This story is about the swift decline of society due to a flu pandemic - is well written - well acted - good special effects - with a cheesy enough score to remind you of the best of grade B drive in movies. I enjoyed it thoroughly.First - the relationship between the star of the show Martin and his pregnant wife is great - he's so not ready for an apocalypse - and for the first 25% of the movie they are "Business as usual - what's all the fuss?" (a la Sean of the Dead). He pulls typical husband stunts like not checking the light bulb he just bought, but he recovers from that blinder with the use of a black light in his apartment which gives them all a 70's neon glow.One thing you'll learn is when the apocalypse comes, look for a friend like Horatio. Talk about some body who is ready!!! He made me want to run to the Kroger's store and gun store before the end of the movie. (Can you say Michael Gros in the first Tremors? - Horatio has a better stash of weapons.) But the highlight of the movie is the writing and the humor. The neighbors trying to convince their other neighbor that they "just want to talk" as they wave a meat tenderizer around. The Health Inspector who is obviously on his last legs. Martin in the astronaut's outfit - turning his face light on when they are stalking Zanutto. ("TUrn it off, you schmuck") Martin not knowing he had a pistol and not a revolver. Dialogue worthy of Sean of the Dead type humor.And the liberal use of the term "dickhead" is hilarious, and quite applicable.Plus definitely enough ineffective gun play that I thought was watching the gun fight on this week's Breaking Bad. How it is possible to shoot that many shot guns, pistols and assault weapons without hitting anyone is pretty amazing.All in all - something for everyone (unless you are a Nichols Sparks fan). Highly recommended. The Argentinians hit a home run with this one.DonB

Martin Cigorraga While indeed the topic of a world-wide virus that kills everyone is a threadbare because so much bad movies that are based on it (so much!), this very one film is EXCELLENT, in the line of REC, a must see movie you like the genre.I first caught it on I-SAT (www.isat.tv), an Argentine cable channel that specialize in non-mainstream productions, one Wednesday at 1:30 AM and since the characters where suited in bio-hazard suits and spoke in Spanish, rioplatense Spanish actually, and one of them with cordobés accent, I think the movie was actually related to El Eternauta (meaning Eternauta 'ethernal astronaut', a well known sci-fi and political comic of Argentine's seventies) soon to realize it was a totally different story.The best think of the film are without doubt the acting and the oppressive atmosphere created by a well taken camera viewpoints and background music and the special effects were pretty cool too, I absolutely buy that everything on the movie was actually happening, the guns shooting, the sick people, the dead bodies, everything.I'm giving ten stars to this movie because it actually hypnotize me to the point of stop zapping, sit down, sharap and watch and for the euphoria I feel for the next hour after the movie ended.This is a great movie that will have you in a tense suspense for more than an hour and I hope you enjoy it as I did! BTW, this is definitely not a chic movie, so if you are a woman (little girls may still enjoy it) and you don't like it please don't rate it down, this movie it isn't for you.

zlee415 The production of this movie was great. For the exception of one very unrealistic firefight scene, if you watch the movie you should know the one i'm talking about without me spoiling it. Now the effects, and actors were great, but it's time for the bad. The writing in this movie was just the worst of the works. The worst thing is that throughout the whole movie the wife is acting like a total b!tch towards her husband as if he's coming in late from bars every night. I don't exactly know if it was written for her to act this way, or if it was the actor herself that made it seem this way. Either way it bothered me throughout the entire movie. The second bad writing part is of the husband. With just half the sh!t he sees in the movie a real person would have spoken the truth to the women they were married to, but not this guy he doesn't share anything with her until he has to. Again even after he does share her attitude still seems that of a wife whose husband keeps coming in late at night from bars. So the whole thing about this is that the husband and wife seem not to care about the epidemic even after people start dieing. Which is just the worst writing for a family of two about to have a child. Everyone knows that any right minded pregnant women would be taking every precaution to keep her child safe, but in this movie the family seemed to be as worried about getting the virus as dead people are of getting fat. It makes as much sense as the sentence I wrote just before this one. 5/10 stars and it only did that good because the production was actually well done.

JvH48 I saw this film as part of the "Imagine" film festival 2011 in Amsterdam. The story gets very close to a post-apocalypse situation. An apartment building is quarantined due to an unnamed disease. Apart from the initial appearance of health care personnel, and some helicopters we see and hear circling above the building, there are no interactions with the outside world. What we see happening is completely contained within the apartment building.Initially I was afraid that the story would focus too much on the seven month pregnant couple with their internal struggles, tensions and mood changes. I was relieved that this was not the case at all. Dramatic developments came from interactions with various kinds of neighbors. Most of them were to be considered potentially hostile. This is not unusual when it comes to survival issues, harvesting food and weapons, and suspecting others from spreading the disease that started the quarantine.When leaving the theater, I gave an "excellent" score for the public prize competition. As an after burner, the film makes you think how you and your neighbors would act in such a situation. It gives an extra meaning to the name of this festival.