One of my all time favorites.

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I watched this low-budget SOV zombie flick based solely on the strength of Katherine Isabelle, one of my favourite contemporary scream queens, and was surprised by how much I enjoyed the film as a whole. Although the plot certainly isn't anything special—a group of forensic students on a field exam find themselves not just examining the dead, but fighting for their lives against them—the lively execution and impressive old-school gore effects, coupled with Isabelle's appeal, ensured that I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish.Considering his obvious budgetary constraints, director Lowell Dean (who would go on to make the equally fun WolfCop) has delivered a stylish looking film that makes the most of its grim, isolated locale, whilst serving up a fair amount of gore-tastic zombie mayhem, with a couple of blood drenched scenes to rival those of much bigger productions: Isabelle's fight against a pair of her undead friends in a cabin is a marvel of practical splatter effects, the poor girl impaling one zombie through the face with a chair leg, and hacking at another's throat until his head falls backwards.After much chopping and slashing, and quite a bit of gut munching (entrails are graphically yanked from the victims' bodies—something sorely missing from many a modern zombie film), Dean wraps up his film with an well-mounted sequence in which his remaining characters attempt to escape in a bus, allowing for some impressive vehicular stunts, and a fun cliffhanger ending.

Gloomy zombie flick that fails to excite or entertain on any level.Even the kills are poorly orchestrated, and it doesn't help that a lot of them are shown in slow motion, which in the case of for instance the series THE WALKING DEAD that could add a bit more dramatic flare to the scene but here it does the exact opposite, it just highlights the fact that it's poorly done instead.I like Brendan Fletcher and Katherine Isabelle but they can't save this dreck, not that they try all that much (Brendan in particular appears to be very little interested in being in the movie).There's really not a whole lot to say about the movie they spend most time in the woods dodging zombies.If that sounds like your cup of tea then by all means take a sip, but just know that it's the cheap stuff with a lot of grainy tea-particles floating about.

OK, so this is not totally totally bad and awful to get one as rating... But I also think that three would be too much...So, this gets two from me.This is a horror movie about zombies. Or some creatures that should be zombies but they are ... whatever. Whatever is the word to describe the 'costumes' and effects. Really not convincing. Not scary at all. It has some gruesome moments but they are poorly done.The acting is that of a high school drama meets wannabe horror actors. Very bad. No one is really convincing. And the girl which found her new best hobby - killing zombies and walking around with a gun is rather silly. The professor of those students is no comment. But I guess, it is worth watching only if you plan one day to film a horror movie to see what things ( and they are plenty!) not to do.Cheap effects of smoke are laughable. Michael Jackson Thriller's kinda bumping into houses throughout the floor is silly. Night haunting with surprising lights in the bus is funny. So many things are just awfully done.

Aided by legendary filmmaker Roger Christian (one of nearly a dozen producers or exec-producers assigned to this film), newbie director Lowell Dean has made a fairly good Canadian rage virus thriller out of this film. The title comes from a rural state penitentiary that used to house life-term inmates who were then experimented upon. Cut a few decades ahead to the present and it's the site of a field examination for six forensic undergraduate students, assembled to study prepares cadavers on the property to graduate the class and gain a coveted FBI position. With a dozen cadavers placed around the site for the three teams of two students each to investigate seems fine enough, until a few additional cadavers, dressed all in inmate orange, turn up – and then get up and attack with extreme prejudice – when all hell breaks loose. The cast, including such Canadian horror regulars as American MARY's Katherine Isabel and her fellow GINGER SNAPS 2 & 3 co-star Brendan Fletcher, does an excellent job, lending credibility to the characters and fluency to the story action. Makeup effects are pretty good and there's a workable score by Igor Vabrac and Ken Worth (the latter noted for Canadian TV series like GHOST TRACKERS and John Woo's ONCE A THIEF). Director Dean, mentored to one extent or another by Christian (see DVD Extras for some details on that) has a good sense of camera placement and movement and along with his cast gives the otherwise routine rage zombie story a satisfying value-added visual dimension.