Woodyanders Troubled police officer Gabriel Goodman (a solid and credible performance by Jon Bennet) finds himself trapped in some kind of bleak apocalyptic world. Several other folks help Gabriel out as he makes a harrowing descent into the abyss. Writer/director Douglas Schulze eschews graphic gore and cheap scares in favor of carefully crafting a extremely dark, eerie, and enigmatic atmosphere which becomes more increasingly grim and despairing as the narrative unfolds towards a truly startling and devastating surprise bummer ending. Moreover, Schulze makes inspired and effective use of familiar gospel songs and delivers plenty of disturbing religious-themed visuals (the shots of empty and abandoned city streets in particular are quite unsettling). Christina Sheldon makes a haunting impression as Gabriel's pregnant wife while Jeff Boerger cuts a freaky and frightening figure as a menacing Dark Angel. Bob Stewart's shivery score hits the spine-tingling spot. The crisp widescreen cinematography by Steven Oatley and Robert Skates provides an appropriately moody look. However, it's the stark presentation of the simple premise which gives this picture an extra jarring and unnerving edge. Recommended viewing for fans of out of the ordinary fright fare.

lucki615 I realize people have different taste and different opinions on many subjects, but to actually find more than two people who liked this film (if you can call it that)and would admit to it by writing a positive review is disheartening to say the least.I picked up this film solely on the recommendation of a co-worker Starky. She told me how wonderful and creepy this movie was and I took a chance. After watching the movie a good year or so ago, I'd rather be stuck watching all 13 episodes of Cop Rock. Nothing and let me underline NOTHING in this movie made sense. I don't know if they were trying to follow the style of Jacob's Ladder with dream sequences or what, but it didn't work. The costumes were horrible and I swear it looked like these Angels had plastic swords and I remember some deal with a floating balloon, that again, MADE NO SENSE! I've read how some people picked this movie up solely based on the cover art of the DVD box, which at first I found ridiculous, but ever since I picked up the movie Rest Stop, I can no longer laugh. I picked up that movie based on the cover on the box and thinking I had missed a good horror movie at the theater that finally made it to DVD. How wrong I was on that one also. Both movies are bad, the writing is terrible, the acting is terrible, the character's actions make no sense and you just sit her wondering how they get any money at all to make this kind of crap!

glenabus-1 OK.....I watched this movie with an open mind, and after reading the even somewhat glowing reviews I can only shake my head in disbelief. this is probably the single worst movie (or attempt at one) i have ever seen in my entire life. i don't know whether it was the bad acting, how Officer Gabe gave us the "plot" just by talking while wandering around some unestablished location. or maybe it was the wal-mart costume wearing "dark angels" and the battle of apocalypse that was more like two guys clanking some poles together a couple of times. Bad acting, bad editing, bad direction, something not even a college film student should be proud of. This movie is the running joke among my whole social circle, it is THAT BAD.

ghoulieguru This is the second worst wanna-be Jacob's Ladder movie I've ever seen, the worst being "13 Seconds". It went through so many obvious plot contrivances that I knew how it was going to end when I was only twenty minutes in - and then I had to sit through another 70 minutes. It's unfortunate that the movie had a muddled script and a bad story because the cinematography was pretty good, and the first few minutes of the movie show promise. I just wish that I knew why everyone is suddenly making these third-rate "I'm dead but I don't know it" movies. It's becoming a whole sub-genre of thriller movies now. It's probably some kind of M. Night Shyamalan backlash. Two stars for you.