"Tuesday Morning" Review - Written by Anthony Thurber

Tuesday Morning
Year: 2008
Director: Luke Ramer
Stars: Brain Dibonaventre, Darlene Curcio, Katie Smith
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Studio: West 2nd Productions
Running Time: 40 Mins

Tuesday Morning is a low budget zombie short about a young couple who are having issues in their relationship including an pregnancy which one of them doesn’t want. They must put aside their issues, when they discover that zombie are walking among them. Soon they must try to escape their house and outrun the zombies before them and their unborn child ends up dead.

When reviewing films that have played in the festival circuit or films that are short in length, you never know what to expect. That’s the fun of being a critic on one of these sites. Going into this film, I didn’t know what to expect, as I originally thought that this was a slasher film, but instead this was a zombie film. Oops, as I’m not the biggest zombie lover in the world, but when I see an interesting concept, I usually go for it. Thankfully, I didn’t have to regret the fact that I made the mistake, as I really enjoyed this film a lot, even though it looked like a camcorder film and had the budget of $700.00 dollars.

Tuesday Morning is a surprising scary for a very low budgeted camcorder film. Director Luke Ramer’s direction was pretty good giving the fact that this film was really low budgeted. He does a good job keeping the action moving, as none of the scenes that were shot were either cheesy or felt like it came out of a backyard film. The gore effects were very good, as there was blood flowing in this zombie film. Ramer also manages make the action scenes in the film intense, which a very good thing if you filmmakers out there are short on money. But one of things that he accomplished was making this little film scary. This is what I want to see in these films. I wish the major studios would watch these little films and see what horror fans want. Ramer’s direction of the actors was also surprisingly good. The performances felt believable and he made sure that the chemistry was dead on.

Ramer’s screenplay was also good, as it also made the film very enjoyable. His screenplay really does a good job developing the relationship between the two main characters here. I thought that the set up with those characters helped contribute to me liking this film because in movies like this, you have care for the characters in order for a movie to succeed. I cared about the relationship to the point that I felt a little heartbroken at the end of the film, which I’ll talk about in a minute. The scares were surprisingly there in the screenplay. Ramer does a very good job in setting them up, as they gave me shivers my spine. He also get his message across, especially with the end of the film which I won’t go into further, as it would spoil the ending, but it did leave me with an impact, which most films of this genre don’t. This is why I prefer these horror films instead of the crap that the major studios put out.

Tuesday Morning is a zombie film that is character driven and scary.

Review Rating: 4 Stars