Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is the second Danish zombie movie that I have watched, and I can't claim that either were overly impressive. I happened to come across "Opstandelsen" (aka "A Zombie Exorcism"), which is Danish for "The Rising", by sheer random luck, and being a zombie aficionado of course I just had to buy it.I will say that the idea, despite its simplicity, was actually adequate. And as the director Casper Haugegaard said in the extras, that there is just something about having zombies in a church. Good concept idea, but the movie as a whole wasn't memorable.The dialogue was almost not present, and what was there didn't really help to improve the movie much in any manner.Now, what the movie had working for it was the gore. And while some of it wasn't great, gore is always good to have in a zombie movie. And there were also some gore parts which were really great.The movie doesn't follow traditional zombie lore, as the zombies in the movie apparently could die by being stabbed through the Heart and the zombies were also fast, agile runners. Whether or not you like that is, of course, a matter of preference. I didn't though. No, I prefer the typical zombie lore; that zombies are slow shamblers that require brain trauma to be effectively put down.The movie had moments of really questionable camera-work when the people (and zombies) were running in the basement passages underneath the church.In overall, then "Opstandelsen" was a good-hearted attempt at a zombie movie that was ultimately a less than mediocre result.

I just saw this little gorefest in the shops and thought, well, just cashing in on the zombie hype still going on. But once I plugged it in the DVD player I came beware that we had something special. The director, Casper Haugegaard surely knows how to do things. When you have almost no budget then you will have to use the stuff you have and for him it was the location and the camera. For the location, it's a cellar under a church. So dark you can't see a zombie but he uses shaky shots to make it look real, remember Cloverfield and REC, and only uses the light on the camera to view things. Well, it worked out fine. The zombies are also a bit easily done, not like those Italian ones, but just some normal guys going crazy like in the British zombie flicks. The storyline doesn't make any sense but as so many zombie flicks, it's all about those little shockers. And they really do their work, it is messy and bloody and even sometimes gory. Due the fact that it clocks in at 50 minutes you can't really state that it is a full feature but surely one to pick up especially for the extras which are even better than the main feature, the director even made some music clips and let me say that Cephalic Carnage's Ohrwurm do has it all, nudity, blood and ultra gore, definitely not on youtube. And there is even another short available and worth watching, Kaeldermenneske. So if you come across this unknown feature, pick it up

i liked it! , this movie wasn't supposed to have a major big story, but it just speaks about simple things, its like when u watch something that is short but gives a lot of meaning to it, this movie is one of them :D, i think the director/writer just wanted like a brief movie but still scary.I liked the effects they had and there isn't much of story to tell but its still good though :) of course id say they needed a little more work on ending and story, yet i still think its good and frightening.I rate it 7 for good effects, makeup, acting, it also left me confused a bit.Worth Watching :D!7/10

Okay.. Maybe not thousands.. But a lot!Just got home from the theater, where the director/producer/writer etc. presented his movie. For a Danish horror-zombie flick, this rocks.. But only for the one reason that it's just a zombie-flick! Which isn't a bad thing.. At all..It's got what you would desire in a zombie-movie, no sense, no plot, no deep characters.. Just zombies attacking and eating people!I only have two complaints, which is the way it was shot.. It's shaking quite a bit, to make that confusing scary feeling.. Only it's so dark to begin with, it doesn't help at all, at seeing what the hell is happening..The other thing:******SPOILER********The last and "epic" battle between the before mentioned dead guy and his brother (our hero) isn't epic at all.. It's over way too soon..But seen with no expectations or prejudice.. This rocks!!