FountainPen If you can survive the first half hour, you'll probably be able to endure the balance of this dreadful cinematic effort. After a quite entertaining opening few action minutes and an irate Daniel Baldwin (yecchhh), the flick settles down into what appears to be a radio programme, with people just sitting around talking about nothing. These are people you will have zero empathy with -- vacant souls with no redeeming qualities. The gal "star" of this film has a coughing fit at one point which almost equals those of Hillary Clinton: this was a high point, believe it or not. The music! Oh! The music in this movie is ridiculous. Whoever chose it or created it needs to go back to school, along with all the actors and actresses, the scriptwriter, the director... well, you get the idea! As for the "lovemaking scene", dear dear me, how amateurish, how embarrassing, how laughable, ooh, aah, mmm... HA HA HA ! GIVE THIS A MISS!

Phil Rose A mixed bag of students and poor people sign up to be test subjects for a new drug with the promise of $1000 for their time. Of course it turns out that it's the army secretly looking to test their latest bio weapon on the unsuspecting volunteers. For the first 30 minutes hardly anything happens as we follow our hapless lovers go about their dull lives. When we finally get the volunteers all in one place they are all dosed with the gas (strangely one by one rather than all together), which wastes away some more screen time. Then in for next 50 minutes or so there's lots of running around seemingly endless corridors with the victims screaming and shouting at each other as the gas slowly takes effect. Oh, and the "twist" is that two of the group have unknowingly been given a vaccine which is also under test and may or may not work. A fairly poor execution of a story that's been told many times before. Watch 28 Days Later instead

Theo Robertson A young woman running along a deserted road is pursued by men in black . She runs in to a woodlands and is shot by one of the men carrying a snipers rifle . As she lies dying in the snow she is then executed by a bullet After this more than adequate opening hook we cut to a university lecture room where a tutor discusses stem cell research: : Yet another morally ambiguous topic . Is it ever ethical to sacrifice one embryo to save ten , twenty , a hundred , a thousand individuals ? " He goes around class asking this question and the students are perplexed and indecisive about giving an answer . This is something fundamentally wrong about this reaction . We are talking about an embryo . Something that is not developed in to any human form . In other words it's not yet human and doesn't qualify as a human being . It's an embryo not a human so asking questions like sacrificing something in order to save other human beings as if it's the same equivalent as a human is a non sequiter .. You can guess this is an American film and one hopes that in real life the average American student is more cerebral than the muppets seen here who are no doubt registered with the more right wing elements of the Republican party I did perhaps notice a slight agenda with this film . One of those students then signs up for a medical experiment with an organisation calling itself " Systems and science " and they're the bad guys . There is of course nothing wrong with a horror film making political comments and I did enjoy 28 WEEKS LATER which featured an American taskforce repopulating a devastated land and then having to destroy it in order to save the wider international community . Hardly a subtle subtext but one that is recognisable and appreciated at the same time . As the characters of the experiment are introduced someone makes a joke about Noah but there's no blatantly faith good science bad soapbox shouting and I probably over analysed this a bit too much . It is of course a low budget indie horror thriller and the message carried is " trust no one especially where the government is concerned " . You've seen this type of idea before and because you've seen it so many times it's not stand out in any way and if you don't like horror movies you won't like this . It does manage to generate a few scary moments and meets expectations

jdesalay Horror films are all the rage this year (World War Z, Insidious: Chapter 2, Carrie...) and After Effect is finally one worth watching. I hate horror movies, they give me awful headaches and I don't see the point of them. As soon as After Effect started, I changed my mind.If you are looking for a movie that will leave you on the edge of your seat the whole time, this is that movie!!! Direction and acting are great, story line is very creative and still believable, hate those movies with ideas from left field. Definitely do not take your kids to see it, it was a little intense for a grown man like me but at the same time I wanted to see more. Hope they make a sequel the writing was creative and would love to see more from this writer.The film is a visual masterpiece. Kirk Anderson gives an absolutely stunning performance, acting to absolutely nothing, yet always being right on the spot. If you get a chance to see After Effect, go for it. David McElroy has outdone himself with this film, it's definitely a must see for horror film lovers.