Powerful

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Six months after the outbreak, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them from outside and from within. If you take out the creepy voices that sound in the back this is a very badly written and directed movie, it's not scary or even at least a bit original or even interesting and it honestly reminded me a lot of Aliens v.s Predator: Requiem it's so dark that i couldn't even see anything but also there's shaky cam that really made the movie even worse. It was also very slow and the 2 leading stars were poorly written and the actors didn't help either and for that i'm going to give Dead Within an 1/10

Very vague, minor spoilers. First, there are zombies in this movie. Only 2 (well, 3, maybe 4), and they are only on screen mainly for a very brief flashback, but they are there. But beyond that I think this could have been a decent little movie. The acting isn't great, but it serves its purpose. The problem is not much happens to string the movie along to its conclusion. I think, perhaps, if they made the subplot with the baby even slighter bigger (or even slightly less implied and more direct) it would have given the movie more depth. And if there had been a bigger "to-do" outside at the end, where they actually could have had a full action/dramatic scene rather than a quick jolt. The movie wasn't about scares, anyway. So why end that way and take away one of the few opportunities to show something happening (other than her opening the front door)?

The script for this movie was probably excellent, the execution should have been taken out and shot. The movie is about a pandemic of some sort leaving a couple isolated and trapped in a remote cabin in the woods while it unfolds. When I say unfolds I use the term loosely as the movie gets stuck very early and the over use of flash backs causes it to drag on and on. Attempts to create emotional connection just leave you bored at best. They come far too late in the movie, you are saying OK already I got it 30 minutes ago, what happens next? The problem is nothing happens for a very long time. The positive reviewers of this movie are the ones who do not get it. The movie spells out the ending with blinding clarity but for some reason many people want to make it into more. The ending was never meant to be more than a culmination. There IS NO discovery, no revelation. No insight into the nature of mankind or deeper hidden meaning. The script was meant to be a journey not a destination. I cannot be more specific without giving away the movie, but suffice it to say that the director missed the point of the movie and irrevocably damaged it in the process. They thought they were being clever but instead it took the heart out of what could have been a very good movie.

We've seen it many times before, and we've seen it done a lot better.I'm not a huge fan of zombie apocalypse films to begin with, and 'Dead Within' is just another crap fest to add to the list. The plot is simple, the characters are terrible, the dialogue is beyond awful, and the acting is rather dreadful, too. If you decide to give 'Dead Within' a try, you'll soon realize that there simply isn't anything here worth reviewing - a lot of films are so bad, that you can sit back and toss out a few lines of sarcasm, but 'Dead Within' isn't even capable of accomplishing that.Random Ramblings of a Madman: Just go to bed.