Dead Shadows: Review

For such a short running time, 75 minutes, the movie spends half it’s time trying to establish one character, and then comes the nonsensical and completely unexplained horror as humans start transforming into mutants. This is where the movie goes off the rails. What follows is a series of random but cool looking, almost wordless scenes that don’t add up to a story. It’s also maddening when this scrawny kid has a samurai sword and a plethora of automatic weapons at his disposal yet chooses to fight back with two bats instead. Irreverent, or thoroughly implausible? Maybe the apocalypse doesn’t have to make sense, but a film about it does.
To call this film blithely incoherent would be generous, but the visuals are worth a look as a vague reference to the Cthulhu Mythos. It’s obvious that this is director’s David Cholewa’s first film, but he does show incredible potential and good eye for cosmic horror.
DEAD SHADOWS - Official Trailer from CESAR DUCASSE on Vimeo.
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