Sorry, this movie sucks

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I read a few reviews, some giving this movie a 4 Star review and then the there are the ones that gave this 10 stars with some @*%# about how others that gave this a low rating just didn't understand something about this movie. Well, this movie plain and simply gives proof that Britain should not be allowed to make, export or give advice when it comes to horror movies, and should only be allowed to make comedies.

This independent horror flick was shot in various locations around Barnsley and Sheffield on a micro budget, and is proof that low-budget movies are not necessarily bad movies. In fact, this one is pretty good within its constraints – well-written, pacy, atmospheric and lots of fun. In a dictionary, the word 'eschatology' is defined as: "any system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters such as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc". Here, writer-director Damian Morter deliberately distorts the word to give his portmanteau film a rather intriguing and foreboding title. The three stories are book-ended with a sequence set in the remote hilly woodland of South Yorkshire, where survivor Matthew (Tim McGill Grieveson) spends his days maintaining a makeshift compound and collecting corpses from the areas of civilisation far below. He carries the bodies aboard a wheelbarrow to his barricaded base, where he systematically cremates them. One day, an unexpected stranger, Cal (Damian Morter), stumbles into camp and collapses from exhaustion. Matthew discovers a journal among Cal's belongings which recounts three tales about the zombie apocalypse that has changed the world. Story 1 (Dead Inside) deals with the outbreak of the zombie virus, brought about by the arrival of a malevolent demon. The action focuses on a young family – the father is one of the first to be infected in the holocaust and returns home to stalk (or perhaps protect?) his wife and daughter. As the zombies grow in number it becomes clear there will be no happy ending here. Story 2 (The Dying Breed) moves further into the crisis. The decidedly un-heroic Alex first loses his girlfriend to an attack, then journeys across town to find his mother and sister. En route, he repeatedly refuses to assist other survivors, leaving them to their grisly fate, until he discovers that even his nearest and dearest have fallen victim to the virus. Finally, story 3 (A Father For The Dead) is set later still, with the number of survivors having dwindled to almost none. A psychiatrist is on the run in a car with his young son, who has been bitten and will soon become a zombie but – for now at least – remains human. Their escape takes them to the ruins of a farmhouse where they face an almighty fight against a horde of marauding zombies and equally dangerous paranoid human survivors.There's no denying that several of the performances are semi-professional and somewhat wooden. Fortunately, Morter doesn't let us dwell on this too much, providing enough other stuff to distract our attention. There are some effective visuals and the electronic score creates a suitably unnerving atmosphere. The gore is generally well done, certainly on this budget. There are sufficient moments of gut-munching mayhem and gruesome dismemberment to keep genre addicts happy. The real strength of The Eschatrilogy is that it focuses on ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Yes, there's gore and guts and blood and so on, but the film always remembers to come back to the human element to give us something to identify with. Although the twist ending is a little too predictable from the off, and the acting in some segments is less than convincing, the film overall delivers upon its own modest aims. The spirit of George A. Romero pervades throughout the film. Whether or not Romero will ever see The Eschatrilogy no-one but him will know, but if he does I'm sure he'll give it the nod of approval. What better endorsement could any zombie film hope to receive?

I attended Grimmfest in Manchester with my brother for the very first time this year and saw this film early on the Sunday morning we were pretty tired but were ready to kick the day off with Twisted when we discovered it had been switched with this film instead, so we decided to give it a watch, Im glad we did, because it was the film we talked about the most on the drive home.I didn't know much about it apart from the fact it was a zombie anthology film and it was made by unknowns in the North of England. The film opened amazingly well and I was immediately drawn in, a young man in a secluded camp (which would not have been out of place in THE ROAD) scours the roads, picking up the now starved dead and burns them in his camp. On one of these repetitive trips he is confronted by a hagged and bloody man. This man (played by the director) utters a few words and collapses, the man is dragged into the camp, tied up, and his things are searched. Inside his pack is a book, and the book documents the stories. As the young survivor begins to read, we are then transported into each particular zombie tale. First of all the soundtrack was ace, and it reminded me of every great 80's horror film ever made, the production values and locations were very good, far beyond what you would get in a movie of this budget, you can tell the filmmakers were never lazy with their approach.I did have issues with acting on a whole, only the two leads in the framing story really convinced me , the rest of the cast seemed less experienced, some even looked uncomfortable in their roles, maybe having bitten off more than they could chew so to speak, also the mixture of accents at times was off putting, but thats down to personal preference! What amazed me most was after the film we attended the Q & A where the director, main actor and two crew members were told us it was made for around £15,000, it was a shock and put the film very high on my list of best of fest! I am an amateur filmmaker and watching something like this gives me a bigger push to get my own work out there and proves it can be done with dedication and hard work, so i suppose the film was pretty inspiring that way! If you are a fan of horror anthologies and especially zombie movies, this is definitely one of the best low budget zombie movies next to Before Dawn (which also screened at Grimmfest), it's originality alone is worth the look, let alone proof that things can be done with very very little! I hope to see more from these guys, they looked like they were just there to have fun at the Q & A and I think they have done a great job.

Aesthetically stunning movie, set around diverse and interesting characters.Set in a post-apocalyptic world over run with zombies being led by a dark mysterious and demonic character.Man-kinds days are numbered as the unstoppable force of darkness continues to rip through society as we know it.(Not many, if any will survive) Beautifully shot, with some great effects and make up. with an amazing score by Robert Wingfield and some cracking performances with two dead mans shoes actors and a CBBC presenter included in the cast. Loved the characters of Matthew, Cal, Big S, Alex. This is a low budget movie but it really dose not show i have seen big budget films with less production values and if i was told this was shot on a budget of a million i would not bat an eyelid. The Eschartrilogy is definitely worth a watch!No zombie film collection is complete without this movie.