Hell Patrol, The |
USA • 2009 • 30m •
   • Directed by: Turner Van Ryn. • Starring: Pisha Warden, Scott Levy, Kurt Yaeger, Tony Grat, James Hiser, Joe Bohn, Kendall Fleisher, Michael Griffin, Carrie Guss, Simon Gussing, Titus O'Neill, Alissa Sanchez, Doug Simmonson. • Music by: Brad Hughes.   Lt. Sandy Fletcher leads her squad of beat up ''Hell Patrollers'' across a post-zombalyptic wasteland, to the safe city of San Francisco after a failed scrounging mission in Modesto, California. Her squad finds refuge in an abandoned farmhouse and they fortify the grounds for a possible attack. Lt. Fletcher, Sgt. Mark Daniels, Cpl. Chopper, Pvt. Mcwatt and Maj. Karl Brickhaus must fight their way through the unending wave of the undead to get home.
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Review:
I'd like to point out that the only reason I even finished this film was because it was so short.
The premise of the film is that there had been a zombie apocalypse in the not too distant past. San Fransisco appears to be the last bastion of human civilization. The demand for supplies has prompted San Fran to form up militant squads with the mission to head out into the country to scavenge whatever foodwatermaterials that they can find and bring it all back.
Based upon the clips of video footage shown during the opening credits the setting of the film appears to take place sometime in the 1960s. For whatever reason the director decided to continue to embrace the time setting by artificially making the video quality, throughout the feature, seem grainy and diluted: as if it was filmed in the 60s. This doesn't make much sense to me since the film isn't shot from a first person perspective, like one of the actors was shooting home camera footage.
The film was pretty much just a zombie scenario. This movie has next to no story or character development, which is sad because the only thing that makes a zombie movie interesting is getting to know and care about the characters who are surviving the horror. Without character development you can't care when the protagonists begin to die.
The writing, the acting and the dialogue were complete rubbish.
They find a remote house and decide to make it their base of operations or at least the site of their last stand. Plenty of lumber, nails, water, and flood lights. That's all they need. Two of the group's flunkies are set out to dig a fighting hole in the front yard to use as a observation post. Meanwhile the sarge, lieutenant, and major argue a bit over the fraternization going on between the LT and the SGT. Then come the zombie horde, which promptly get tipped off as to the location of the humans when the LPOP send up a signal flare in the front yard. So they decide to play Cowboys and Indians from the roof of the house. After an inspiring "Brave Heart" rallying speech from the female LT, the gang put up a valiant effort trying to defend the Alamo from dozens of zombies until the last of their 10 bullets are expended. At this point it all goes downhill when they abandon the roof to try to keep the dozens of surviving zombies from breaking into the house. They did a lousy job barricading the doors and windows and within a few minutes they're all zombie chow except for the female LT who escapes back to San Fransisco empty handed.
The premise of the film is that there had been a zombie apocalypse in the not too distant past. San Fransisco appears to be the last bastion of human civilization. The demand for supplies has prompted San Fran to form up militant squads with the mission to head out into the country to scavenge whatever foodwatermaterials that they can find and bring it all back.
Based upon the clips of video footage shown during the opening credits the setting of the film appears to take place sometime in the 1960s. For whatever reason the director decided to continue to embrace the time setting by artificially making the video quality, throughout the feature, seem grainy and diluted: as if it was filmed in the 60s. This doesn't make much sense to me since the film isn't shot from a first person perspective, like one of the actors was shooting home camera footage.
The film was pretty much just a zombie scenario. This movie has next to no story or character development, which is sad because the only thing that makes a zombie movie interesting is getting to know and care about the characters who are surviving the horror. Without character development you can't care when the protagonists begin to die.
The writing, the acting and the dialogue were complete rubbish.
They find a remote house and decide to make it their base of operations or at least the site of their last stand. Plenty of lumber, nails, water, and flood lights. That's all they need. Two of the group's flunkies are set out to dig a fighting hole in the front yard to use as a observation post. Meanwhile the sarge, lieutenant, and major argue a bit over the fraternization going on between the LT and the SGT. Then come the zombie horde, which promptly get tipped off as to the location of the humans when the LPOP send up a signal flare in the front yard. So they decide to play Cowboys and Indians from the roof of the house. After an inspiring "Brave Heart" rallying speech from the female LT, the gang put up a valiant effort trying to defend the Alamo from dozens of zombies until the last of their 10 bullets are expended. At this point it all goes downhill when they abandon the roof to try to keep the dozens of surviving zombies from breaking into the house. They did a lousy job barricading the doors and windows and within a few minutes they're all zombie chow except for the female LT who escapes back to San Fransisco empty handed.
Review by captzero from the Internet Movie Database.
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