a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

"Decay" is a movie that tries wholeheartedly, but fails to fully step up to the plate. Directors Luke Thompson and Michael Mazur had the best of interests but their ideas were killed by the classic zombie mistakes.And those mistakes are of course bad zombie make-up, running zombies and bad acting. Yes, "Decay" made that far too-common mistake of having zombie make-up on the face, but forgetting about the neck and ears. It just looks ridiculously bad. The running zombies? No! Simply no. And as for the bad acting, well it was in particular Zoë Hatherell who dragged the movie down with her absentminded acting.Oh, and the story is incredibly slow paced. You need to get 27 minutes into the movie before anything of any importance or interest happens. And even then it never mounts up to anything extraordinary.The cast, most of them at least, were doing adequate jobs with their given roles and characters.For a zombie movie then "Decay" fails to stand out and leave a lasting bitemark, pardon the pun. And as such, it just fades into the vast amount of less than mediocre zombie movies."Decay" is a weak addition to the British zombie catalogue. Nothing much to see here, and I would suggest that you get your zombie cravings sated elsewhere, because "Decay" is less than mediocre.

It could have been great. Im sure MANY people are interested in the God particle and the LHC, however the subject matter is nothing more then the means of making a small and VERY cheap 28 Days Later.The acting is bloody awful. Of the 6 main cast members only 2 seem to be able to show emotion, the rest are practically reading off the page. The setting is obviously not at CERN. I have been to university and work security at a hospital and would bet money that the above ground CERN footage was shot at a university and the underground footage at the basement/ service/ car park/ and any linking tunnels of a hospital.One good thing though..... if the LHC were to f#$% up it we now know it wont destroy the world with a black hole, just create fast zombies. RELIEF!!!

Shot on a minuscule budget, this is a zombie chase movie, set in the bowels of CERN, Switzerland. To my knowledge, all of the cast are physicists as opposed to actors, so you have to excuse the somewhat leaden delivery of lines and expressions. The zombie makeup is OK, £2000 doesn't buy a lot of latex and fake blood. So, a group of 5 student types have to survive an accident with the reactor, which causes a maintenance team to be transformed into zombies. There is a subplot about the Higgs particle having a detrimental effect on human tissue, which leads a mysterious person to sabotage the reactor, causing the accident in the first place. The editing is largely very good, the direction is OK to good, and you get to have a look at miles and miles of dark, pipe filled corridors at the CERN complex. As the group inevitably get whittled down, leaving one survivor to figure it out and try to get help. It's worth a look, even if it is to inspire potential novice film makers to get off their backsides and have a go.

Remember this movie was made by physicists, not movie makers. The CERN backdrop adds a new dimension for zombie story that almost makes the idea of walking zombies plausible. Does the script drift at times, are there bad gaps in some areas, etc? Sure. But who cares. If you watched any made for SyFy movie there is a good chance this one is actually better than most of those. In fact, it would be great if this online distributed film could make the jump to cable with a home on SyFy. Despite the geeky nature of the premise it is still interesting enough for a much wider audience.It will be very interesting to see if these PhD students find a career in science or in film -- or perhaps get lucky enough to continue what they seem to be doing here and somehow have both.