FountainPen Here we have yet another piece of garbage posing as a real motion picture. There are quite a lot of reviews giving high ratings, presumably penned by members of the cast and crew. One, which rates this abortion 9, is headed "Excellent Zombie film is way better than most out there."... what a laugh! There are only about half a dozen crazed people in this film. By NO means can it be considered a "zombie film". It is an amateurish failure, badly acted and filmed, apparently with some kind of green filter to try to trick us somehow. I award this thing 2/10 because there actually are some "movies" which are worse AVOID IT !!!

Leofwine_draca Although low-budget zombie movies are ten a penny these days and, it's fair to say, the majority of them are absolute rubbish, STATE OF EMERGENCY offers something a little different. For a start, it looks like a professional, well-made movie despite the low budget; it has great production values and it avoids being cheesy for the most part.Of course, there's a flip side to this coin, and the main detraction with the film is that it's incredibly slow. There are lots and lots of long, drawn-out sequences where the protagonist just barricades himself inside a building and waits...and waits...and waits. Some viewers might find this off-putting, although I found that the tension levels were high, which kept me watching.The acting isn't bad, and pretty good for a B-movie, and as mentioned the technical values are decent. The zombies themselves are fast-moving and ultra-aggressive, much like the ones in 28 DAYS LATER, and the scare sequences are well handled. STATE OF EMERGENCY is far from perfect, and one of the disappointments is that the ending just fizzles out instead of bangs, but in a sea of trash watching it is a nice surprise.

bowmanblue I read some of the other reviews for State of Emergency and was pleasantly intrigued. All seemed to talk about it having less gore and more story. And I'm cool with that. As a fan of zombie films in general, I've seen gore in all its forms, so a film based around a decent story would also suit me.It's about a viral outbreak which turns most of a town into zombies (or perhaps I should say 'infected' as they run and behave a lot more like the creatures from 28 Days Later, or Dawn of the Dead 2004 edition).Sadly, I couldn't see much evidence of a story. The first quarter of an hour has no dialogue. We just follow our hero after his girlfriend has died (somehow) and now he's left creeping around a barn and, on the few occasions he encounters a zombie, he always manages to drop or leave behind his weapon (really bugged me!). However, he's saved when he hikes across a field and takes refuge in a warehouse with three really boring and unlikeable characters. Once inside, they spend their time watching zombies standing there in fields (I didn't get this bit!). Not only that, but his previous girlfriend may have only been dead a few hours, but - by an amazing coincidence - one of the other humans is a suitable girlfriend replacement.It's a short film and kind of feels like it's set at the same time as 28 Days Later, or rather Dawn of the Dead 2004 (but minus the budget of either). There's the (seemingly obligatory) CGI blood added to the few zombie deaths we see on screen.It's not a bad film. I just didn't find it as good as some of the other reviews were making it out to be. Ironically, people don't seem to like the ending. I thought the ending made a nice change!http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

artpf Chaos consumes a small town when a chemical facility explodes releasing a deadly toxin. Moments after the leak, the town's residents show signs of mutation, causing the military to quarantine the area leaving any survivors helpless and trapped inside. The story follows Jim, a young man isolated within the red zone, as he eludes flesh eating zombies in an attempt to win back his freedom.I found this movie very hard to follow. And, yes, it IS just a zombie film, so what's to follow? But they set it up so that the exposition is very slow and doesn't keep your attention. I had a hard time trying to figure out why I should keep watching. There was very little zombie action until well into the movie. I'm still not sure where the main character lives. Sometimes it looks like a prison or hospital and other times it looks like a home. .There's no explanation how he gets up on a barn roof -- why would you go there with a ladder when the zombies could just follow you? How did the padlock open? By itself? Why doesn't he want to turn on the light when he hears noises? Why does he think the zombies understand English? Why does he run AWAY from his rifle when he needs it? Why when he finally gets the rifle, does he not load it? There are lots of little things like this that make no sense and causes one to lose interest because it's poor writing. Another example, he fires three shots, kills a zombie and suddenly the phone rings. He answers it and a stranger says "are you the guy in the barn? We heard shots and I tried every number in the book to get you." What? You called 3 seconds after the shots were fired! You had no time to look up anything. Nobody finds this weird? And the guy doesn't even know his name but somehow got his phone number!This could have been a really good film if it was better written and better directed -- especially the writing. It's very very poorly written. The acting inst bad, but the writing is horrendous.Also, the print I saw was filled with very tiny red specs throughout. Not sure if that was intentional, but it was annoying.