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Just what I expected

I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Excellent but underrated film

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film opens with two couples celebrating and then the next thing you know there are just two people living in a remote cabin who have barricaded themselves in because of some unknown zombie like infection. Mike (Dean Chekvala) dares to go outside to scrounge for food while his wife Kim (Amy Cale Peterson) stays inside and goes squirrelly from cabin fever. That is the entire film and nearly all of it is filmed from inside the cabin. Two characters, one setting, boring dialogue. It was like watching "The Road" as I kept waiting for an explanation or something to happen or the scenery to change.If you want to watch a zombie film, without zombies, that is character driven, this could be your film. Why someone would make something like that, I have no idea.Parental Guide: F-bomb, brief sex, brief nudity.

Six months after the outbreak, a man and woman have survived by isolating themselves in a remote cabin. Starved for resources, they must confront the horrors that threaten them from outside and from within. If you take out the creepy voices that sound in the back this is a very badly written and directed movie, it's not scary or even at least a bit original or even interesting and it honestly reminded me a lot of Aliens v.s Predator: Requiem it's so dark that i couldn't even see anything but also there's shaky cam that really made the movie even worse. It was also very slow and the 2 leading stars were poorly written and the actors didn't help either and for that i'm going to give Dead Within an 1/10

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!

This was a half hearted attempt at an interesting twist on the 'survival after zombie outbreak' movie. The entire movie takes place in a cabin with essentially two characters. As a fan of this kind of movie I really thought it was gearing up to be more realistic than most. Not every zombie apocalypse can be the constant excitement of zombies around every corner where the average person suddenly has the knowledge and physical ability to use everything around them as a weapon and fight to the victorious end against a world that has gone awry. Here you have two people that have lost everything and everyone but each other. Including the ultimate loss for a family. He just wants to keep her safe and never let her be in harms way, however he's given her the most serious case of cabin fever ever. You can only stay in seclusion, in basically one room, before your cheese starts to slide off your cracker and hers is going quickly. So it sounds like a great premise for a darn good psychological thriller... but they dropped the ball. They never let you in on how the end of the world happened, when it happened, or what led up to them being in their current state. You aren't even let in on the details of how the zombie funk spreads from one person to the next or what the symptoms of infection are, which is generally important to know. There is no character development at all. You never find out who these people were or why she incapable of doing more than getting dressed for dinner or washing a dish. Are these zombies so skilled in undead combat that she can't even walk into the yard occasionally? Which leads you to not feel invested in either characters well being. I think I felt more for the poor dog than the people. Personally, I feel like it's not worth the time investment. The last 5-7 minutes is the only time anything really happens and even then, it lacked substance. All in all it seemed like the trailer for a decent survival movie that never got made.