SYNOPSICS
Dead Shadows (2012) is a French movie. David Cholewa has directed this movie. Fabian Wolfrom,Blandine Papillon,John Fallon,Rurik Sallé are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2012. Dead Shadows (2012) is considered one of the best Horror,Sci-Fi movie in India and around the world.
Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that Halley's Comet could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in his building are getting ready for a party to celebrate the event. There's even an apocalypse theory going around. As the night falls, Chris discover that people are acting strangely - and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn't take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world. In a fight for survival, Chris has to try to escape from his building with the help of a gun toting tenant.
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Dead Shadows (2012) Reviews
Absolutely abysmal
Regarding an alien invasion of France, this film is utterly dire. It has a wimpish protagonist who every chick in the film seems to have the hots for and every female character in it is either shallow, vapid or both. It gives no real explanation or backstory, but simply belts along, yet manages to be utterly devoid of tension or suspense and has stupid plot holes. Even at 70 odd minutes it still feels too long and is basically a sequence of weird occurrences and mediocre fight scenes. Also, the CGI sucks. I don't even really have the heart to go into any more detail except to say that it's a total turkey and didn't go down well at all with the audience at the Edinburgh Dead by Dawn festival where I caught it. 2/10, a boring annoying film that doesn't seem to have a clue about what it actually wishes to say and a film to be avoided. Truly dreadful.
That's it?!
I was tracking this movie for a few month already, as it was only shown on a film festival in 2012. The trailer also looked very promising. It showed some action and different stages of a beginning mutation, which suggested an interesting background story. Recently I finally saw the movie and was surprised about the length of about 70 minutes. The actual movie then had a completely different setting than what I expected. Some lone wolf goes to a weird party where it all starts, no background story and the protagonist undergoes a sequence of weird happenings. Just when the movie could have it's climax and the protagonist could go and search for answers or a safer place, the movie comes to it's end. In my opinion they could have made much more out of the setting and the background story. I was left very uncertain and it is like i missed the later half of a very interesting start this movie made. PS. This is my first review, be forbearing.
Awful Mess
The bizarre "Dead Shadows" is a terrible film with a messy screenplay and awful protagonist. There is no backstory or character development explaining the weird situation. The viewer learns that a family is destroyed in the disconnected beginning of the movie without any further explanation. Eleven years later there is a comet passing close to or maybe crashing on Paris. People is celebrating the end of the world, but out of the blue, they turn into grotesque creatures. The lead actor is a strange guy that seems to have the power of attracting easy and shallow women including his gorgeous next door neighbor. The violence is free and the CGI is very poor, recalling a Sci-Fi production. The unexpected conclusion is awful and completes with golden key this forgettable mess. My vote is three. Title (Brazil): "Sombras da Morte" ("Dead Shadows")
It could be a little worse, could be a little better.
Okay so the story does start off interesting enough (Cowardly kid with a crazy past) and the premise is actually quite interesting as well as the story (not quite "Zombies" but something else) The problem is that they didn't use the budget well enough. Sure the effects are pretty good but there's occasionally some bad camera styling (it's enough to be noticeable) and the music and sound effects are very much below average. It's a shame who they got for the lead role because you can clearly see his lack experience, yet his fellow actors actually do quite a decent job. It does get a lot more interesting near the end of the movie but it doesn't give itself enough time to explore the possibilities well enough. So in conclusion: If you enjoy cheesy zombie movies/ Creature movies then you may like this. If you don't mind the low-budget feeling horror flicks then you may enjoy it. If you're someone that only enjoys top-end effects and amazing acting then I don't recommend this movie for you. It's a lot better than some of the horror-zombie-creature flicks as of late but it isn't genre defining, nor is it anything new. I gave it a slightly above average score solely for it trying to do something different. It may not have succeeded in doing something different but at least they tried and that's more than can be said for most movies these days.
abysmal,awful,and absolutely terrible
If I could give this a 0 then I would.I didn't think it was possible to find a worse movie than an Asylum movie,but the french managed it with this stinker.The acting is awful beyond belief,the cinematography even worse and the story line just plain stupid and all over the place.Whatever you do,avoid this mess and save yourself the pain.