Great movie in all key areas.
I stumbled across this movie at Walmart the other day, I hate Walmart but they do a good job of bringing low budget zombie movies to the market.
I can count the number of movies that I have actually watched the bonus footage on one hand. This was the 4th movie.
Jeremy Gardner hit a homerun with this one (pun intended). It was a slow burn and that worked well with the overall arc of the movie. I really enjoyed the final scene with him unraveling the baseball and filling us in on how they escaped the house in Pittsfield. I heard the arguments for the final shot on the bonus material and I have to agree with Jeremy, the amount of zombies was very underwhelming. I would be hard pressed to believe that they couldn't just beat the small collection of zombies off with a bat and gun from the sun roof. Had they been able to assemble a hundred or so zombies that final scene would have been spectacular. I was not a fan of bringing Mickey back into the car. I would have played better if we heard him scream off camera and see him as the first zombie to enter the back hatch and let Ben shoot him there before escaping.
The soundtrack was amazing; every song was perfect for the scene. I especially liked the scene with Ben dancing around the mural singing Anthem for the Already Defeated.
The shot locations were beautiful, the wide open scenery in the beginning of the film contrasted very well with the final scenes in the close spaces of the Volvo. The one potential problem I saw never manifested itself. A bow is not a weapon that anyone can just pick up and use effectively like you can a gun. It takes years of practice to gain any sort of competency with a bow. The scene was very well done, but it was a good thing that they didn't continue the movie with him actually using the bow.
The only other indie horror movie I have seen that struck a chord with me (again pun intended) as much as this move was Dead and Breakfast. That was another movie where I really enjoyed the blending of music and film. It was also a movie that paid tribute to other work. The horde scene that mimicked Thriller was fantastic.
Kudos to everyone who worked on this film and I hope to see more in the future.