Days of Darkness (2007) - Zombie Film Review

With films like Days of Darkness you really know where you are. Terrible acting, cheap music, and lots of blood, beautiful!

The film starts with a couple out on a camping trip. Returning from the mountains they discover that while they've been away everyone seems to have died..and come back to life as genitalia-less zombies. Rescued by a sword wielding man they are escorted to a small mountaintop military base where a ragtag group of survivors are holed out.

Hilariously despite it being less than twenty four hours since the zombie apocalypse the survivors are already using ridiculous names like 'Slasher' and 'DJ', I personally would have left it at least a week before reinventing myself. The group is a mixed bunch, included in the group are a porn star, a gay guy, a mad preacher all at each other's throats seemingly. The characters are quite interesting, my favourites was the farmer Chad who acts like a complete arse bossing everyone around with his shotgun, and the mad preacher who keeps on quoting excerpts from Revelations (of Bible fame).

The film starts off as pure zombie fest, but turns into more of a sci-fi as the main character reaches bizarre conclusions as to the virus origins (which while true in terms of plot, in the circumstances are totally far fetched leaps). At one point in the film for instance the main character gets out a zombie penis he's been carrying around in his pocket, wrapped in a hankie and shows it to everyone while discussing a theory, and they all react as if it's the most normal thing in the world to do!

Days of Darkness was entertaining and had a satisfying message about the goodness of alcohol. Lots of zombies, blood, and quite a few tentacles make for a terrible yet fun film.

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