Leofwine_draca
HELL IS FULL is an unwieldy indie horror flick with sci-fi touches. This one goes for the small town mystery approach, and doesn't succeed due to the obvious lack of funds available for the crew. It has a literal point-and-shoot approach to photography, while the story is slow and unfocused throughout. Is it a zombie film? Not really, despite the presence of a few undead souls. The mystery goes nowhere. It's just a boring non-starter.
Andy Van Scoyoc
I've by-passed this film, a number of times, on Amazon Prime. I just didn't see how it could be any good, based on the bland description.Glad I finally gave it a chance. Surprisingly well done, this film starts out ordinary, but gets better and most uniquely done about this film, is that it's told, after the initial start, in reverse!You see each of the featured characters in a back tracking story that ties up neatly at the end. Also, not sure about the Southern accents, as this film was supposed to be populated by Mid Westerners, but they were completely at ease, not forced, not silly and convincingly spot on.They lent a realistic feel to the film. It wasn't like you were watching actors. This film was more like the viewer is invisible and just watching people go about their daily lives as (clueless as they all are) their worlds become a part of a zombie apocalypse.Bravo...Bravo...
artpf
Not a bad zombie / walking dead genre movie.Definitely a few scenes that startled me.Very low budget and it sort of shows although, the filmmakers did a lot with limited cash.One thing I really didn't get used to was the constant flash backs.In other words, a zombie character would be introduced and following their scene, the exposition would flash back to when they weren't zombies.I found this convention confusing.Maybe they thought it was a unique take but when you have know idea who these actors are, you get really confused.Nonetheless, it's worth a viewing if you like the genre.
paultagonist
Not a bad little micro-budget zombie flick. This one is pretty original, in that it starts kind of at the end, and then leap-frogs back to the beginning (kind of like Memento, or Irreversible). Now that would get quickly confusing in most of these micro-budget fares, but in Hell is Full, each part of the story focuses on a different character, and their story lines only overlap a little, although they do all interconnect. Each story begins with the characters doing what they're doing in their everyday life, and at the end, they encounter a zombie and get bit. The movie then leap-frogs (usually) to the person that did the biting, and shows how *they* got turned into a zombie. And that's great for this flick, because otherwise, it's a straight- forward zombie flick: zombies come and slowly eat a small town's inhabitants, one by one. There's a bit of explanation about a fireball in the sky, but we don't really care about that (although it is cool when a couple of the characters actually find the landed, smoking rock- thing and it's all squishy and slimy). My only really huge complaint (given that it's basically a homemade, cuz-I-wanna-do-it zombie movie, I'm overlooking stuff like acting, lighting, etc, none of which were awful anyway) is the editing. It just needed more of it. There's one scene in the beginning, where it just shows a guy walking up to a house. For several minutes. The running time isn't extremely long at 97 minutes, but I think maybe the filmmaker didn't want to cut anything since he loved every minute of his creation. Which is understandable, but ya gotta be tough and let some parts go. It could've easily been 85 minutes, I think. I got this on eBay for around $6 I think, and the cover and disc are signed by the director. I know that doesn't increase its worth (unless Steve Hudgins gets famous in the future), but it still gives it a little personal flair that goes hand-in-hand with a micro-budget zombie flick of this type. I'd suggest seeking it out on eBay, or go to BigBitingPigProductions.com, and check it out. 7/10 from me as a zombie movie (loses a point for the massive editing issue), and 5/10 as a regular movie. I'll look forward to more from Mr. Hudgins.