Opstandelsen (2010)

(AKA: Zombie Resurrection - Zombie Exorcism)

My rating - 5.5/10

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Three siblings gather with other family members for the funeral of their brother. When they find one of them in the back room snorting lines of coke from the pages of a bible and argument starts. This is soon interrupted by a zombie attack on the church. They attempt an escape underneath the church but the dead are soon hunting them down!.

A zombie flick from Denmark made with very little money but a lot of passion. First the good. The acting is decent and much better than a lot of these types of movies. The practical gore effects are also very good considering the lack of budget. There's some genuinely good atmosphere in some of the underground scenes and the dialogue is fine.

Now the bad, at least the bad for me anyway. What really let's this film down is that every damn time something interesting happens, like a zombie attack, the camera gets so close to peoples faces that it's almost up their bloody noses, add to that the constant shaking of the camera as well means you rarely get to see anything, it's just a blur. It happens throughout and gets very annoying, very quickly!. I get that type of filmmaking if it's a POV movie like Blair Witch or something as the characters are holding the cameras so you expect shaking as they run. This isn't one of those films though. If the director would have just pulled back a bit and shot the action, of which there is plenty in a more steady style then this would have been so much better and more exciting!.

If you don't have a problem with shakey camera work and ultra zoomed in close ups of peoples faces, arms, legs or things like that then this is well worth checking out. With a runtime of only around 50 minutes it doesn't waste time and the action comes thick and fast. Overall it's good, I just feel it could have been so much better!.

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