StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

sgcim There have been so many zombie movies made that I usually stop watching them after thirty minutes on streaming Netflix because many of them are the same basic story over and over again. Dead Within offered a new twist on the zombie genre without having to resort to either gore, or supposedly ironic humor.Zombie comedies were novel for a while, but the novelty soon wore off after you've seen a few of them. Dead Within was a psychological drama modeled on Polanski's Repulsion, and offered two good performances by the leads, good direction, good writing and improvisation by the two leads, and fine camera work. There's an official website for the movie that has a six part web prequel, a number of fake and real news articles about the CINS Virus, fake Twitter messages detailing the back story of the film, youtube messages by the 'Skull Monkey, and even a manga version. One clue to the plot that no one seemed to have noticed was when the female lead was playing the guitar for a brief scene- the guitar had no strings on it!

barna b It is not a zombie movie. Not a classic horror film. It has a very deep meaning.The movie has the right atmosphere, gloomy until the very end. The woman - Kim - is nerve-racking, plays very well.The poster's headline is giving us what it is all about: Fear is contagious. The whole movie is about the Fear. The epidemic which cause black-blood, and black-eye is the Fear itself. It is a symbol (when someone is full of fear, he can not see what is real, he is blind, "black-eyed". Also it can show, that almost the entire human population get this "virus". Everyone is afraid of something (death, pain, poverty, powerless, aloneness..). The fear can grow so big, that it can lead the person. And it is very dangerous... It makes people sick, psychotic. As in the movie, Kim gets crazy - believing that she is right! She saw things which were unreal. She is dead, she is not alive, she only exists in her mind. Do you think Ranger Mark was real? Maybe it was her conscience (? wanted to save her?)... Her partner, Mike, was also not "healty".. He wanted to possess the woman, and at the end, he ran to his fate..This movie asks the question: do you want to live your life, and say no to fear(even if it is inside), or do you want to be like a zombie? What is more important than this?So, in my view, this movie is very deep, intelligent work. Thanks. (Sorry for the poor English.)

annika-222-831534 The person who wrote the review before me was right - this is not a zombie flick. This is a film about a woman struggling with her own sanity. If you like being spoon fed your stories, then go watch Scary Movie or some other teen slasher. Any writer than can keep you in suspense using only one or two characters and no real, visible threat is a true talent, indeed!I would liken this more to Pontypool than Evil Dead. Blood, guts and rotten zombies are not only UNscary, they are also over done.I do, however, wish that more questions were answered at the end (eg: What was up with Ranger Mark?" and that we were left with a more unique twist at the end (it was very generic).Other than that, I was biting my nails almost through the entire thing, well done.The rest of you are idiots.

erostew I ended up hating it.I saw the low ratings and decided to give it a shot anyway. It's the kind of movie that has the potential to give us situational horror instead of just another gore-fest. I like character driven movies if they can deliver compelling characters and an interesting story. Sadly Dead Within just doesn't deliver. On any front.As another reviewer mentions: It isn't a Zombie flick. He's right. It is the result of somebody having the idea to make a Zombie movie but not having any real cash to spend. Basically: "We can't afford the costs of having a horde of Zombies in our movie so we will basically shoot most of it in one small set with only 2 actors, and the story will be about the people trying to survive and not about the Zombies." Unfortunately the creators of this micro-budgeted waste of time make the same mistakes as so many other low-budget filmmakers: They seem to have hired actors because they would work cheap instead of hiring them because they can act.I don't want to mislead you into thinking that the acting is the only bad component of this movie though. The direction and editing are lousy too. Camera-work is not terrible but it certainly doesn't add anything to the viewing experience. It's shaky and hand-held low-budget stuff. The writing, if you can call it that is unoriginal and tells a disjointed story with way too many flashbacks. The ending is pretty much NOT a surprise. Despite having four credited writers, two of them being the lead actors, it feels mostly improvised. There isn't much in the way of special effects and what there is is pretty amateur. The "Zombies" are basically people with black contacts. Those contacts, some gauze and some black "blood" that looks like used motor oil are the majority of the makeup effects.The only bright light in the whole sorry effort is the sound. It SOUNDS creepy.2 out of 10