Edges of DarknessYear: 2008
Directors: Jason Horton, Blaine Cade
Stars: Michelle Rose, Jay Costelo, Anne Marie Pazmino
Studio: Zapruter Films / Shoreline Entertainment
MPAA Ratting: Not Rated
Running Time: 88 Mins
Official Website: http://www.edgesofdarkness.com/
Originally, I was going to review this film, in the latest edition of “Reviews From the Horror Chamber”, which I hope to have online, before the New Year. This is a film that I enjoyed so much, I decided that this film doesn’t deserves to go in my column along side a piece of trash, which will go nameless, until the next column goes online. The reason. I’m doing this, because, I want the sole attention to be on that film and not my ranting and raving on a truly piece of garbage, because sometimes my ranting and raving on horrible films take attention away, from good pieces of work.
“Edges of Darkness” is about three groups of people, who are trapped
in apartment building during a zombie apocalypse. In one apartment, an obsessed writer is finishing up his latest novel, while neglecting his wife. While finishing this novel, he installs a new processor that’s able to run on his power generator. He begins to find out that this obsession has price. In another apartment, a vampire couple takes a young woman hostage, when their food supply runs low. They begin to bleed her dry slowly, but things don’t go according to plan, when the young girl is hiding a dark secret. Finally, a survival nut rescues a young boy and his mother from a group of undead zombies. She takes them to the apartment complex, to shelter them, from those zombies. But what she doesn’t realize is that a group of renegade priests are out looking to kill the boy.
“Edges of Darkness” is a very entertaining and original horror film. Directors Jason Horton and Blaine Cade did a great job with their direction, as this film comes off as a zombie film that focuses on it’s characters then trying to create a zombie film that focusing more, on gruesome deaths. One of the reasons, why the whole story works is the editing. I liked how, Horton (who’s also the film’s editor) cut between each of the groups that are trapped in the apartment building. It makes the story that he created with Cade more interesting, as this could have been easily been an anthology film, as none of the groups meet up with each other, during the course of the film. The acting was very good considering that this film was made, for practically no money at all. The directors did a good job making the performances fit that characters story, as there was a different type and feel to each story.
Their story and screenplay was original and energizing. This film is a horror film fan’s dream, as each story represents a different horror subgenre. You have a vampire film, alien monster film, a occult film and a zombie film, all wrapped into one movie. All these types of subgenres work, very well. The reason for this is that all the stories are taking place a
t the same time. It was going from one story to another. It helps with pace of the film, as the film goes by at a good pace. It makes the characters and the apocalyptic story, interesting and original, as it makes this film better than an anthology film, even though it could have gone that route. By intertwining the stories together, it makes the film, story, and the characters much better. Another thing, I have to mention was the fact that the character development was very good. There were two reasons for this. The first reason was that the characters were developed well, as the directors did a very good job going into the back-stories of each of the characters. It makes the characters interesting and likeable. The other reason was the fact the characters stayed in their separate story. It doesn’t try to be a horror version of “Pulp Fiction”, where all the characters intersect into each of the film’s stories. By having the characters stay in each of their individual story, it makes the makes the action, very entertaining and keeps your interest throughout, instead of coming out of this film and thinking to yourself that this was the horror version of “Pulp Fiction”.
“Edges of Darkness” is a horror fans dream that breaths new life, into the zombie subgenre.
Review Rating: 5 Stars
“Edges of Darkness” is about three groups of people, who are trapped
in apartment building during a zombie apocalypse. In one apartment, an obsessed writer is finishing up his latest novel, while neglecting his wife. While finishing this novel, he installs a new processor that’s able to run on his power generator. He begins to find out that this obsession has price. In another apartment, a vampire couple takes a young woman hostage, when their food supply runs low. They begin to bleed her dry slowly, but things don’t go according to plan, when the young girl is hiding a dark secret. Finally, a survival nut rescues a young boy and his mother from a group of undead zombies. She takes them to the apartment complex, to shelter them, from those zombies. But what she doesn’t realize is that a group of renegade priests are out looking to kill the boy.
“Edges of Darkness” is a very entertaining and original horror film. Directors Jason Horton and Blaine Cade did a great job with their direction, as this film comes off as a zombie film that focuses on it’s characters then trying to create a zombie film that focusing more, on gruesome deaths. One of the reasons, why the whole story works is the editing. I liked how, Horton (who’s also the film’s editor) cut between each of the groups that are trapped in the apartment building. It makes the story that he created with Cade more interesting, as this could have been easily been an anthology film, as none of the groups meet up with each other, during the course of the film. The acting was very good considering that this film was made, for practically no money at all. The directors did a good job making the performances fit that characters story, as there was a different type and feel to each story.Their story and screenplay was original and energizing. This film is a horror film fan’s dream, as each story represents a different horror subgenre. You have a vampire film, alien monster film, a occult film and a zombie film, all wrapped into one movie. All these types of subgenres work, very well. The reason for this is that all the stories are taking place a
t the same time. It was going from one story to another. It helps with pace of the film, as the film goes by at a good pace. It makes the characters and the apocalyptic story, interesting and original, as it makes this film better than an anthology film, even though it could have gone that route. By intertwining the stories together, it makes the film, story, and the characters much better. Another thing, I have to mention was the fact that the character development was very good. There were two reasons for this. The first reason was that the characters were developed well, as the directors did a very good job going into the back-stories of each of the characters. It makes the characters interesting and likeable. The other reason was the fact the characters stayed in their separate story. It doesn’t try to be a horror version of “Pulp Fiction”, where all the characters intersect into each of the film’s stories. By having the characters stay in each of their individual story, it makes the makes the action, very entertaining and keeps your interest throughout, instead of coming out of this film and thinking to yourself that this was the horror version of “Pulp Fiction”.“Edges of Darkness” is a horror fans dream that breaths new life, into the zombie subgenre.
Review Rating: 5 Stars
Completely disagree with the review, the movie doesnt make sense, its a sad attempt at merging different genre without ever really having any real story. A vampire couple, a survivalist who saves the ones she should be killing and a freak computer ( demon seed anyone? ) . Essentially the movie is three broken incomplete independent stories all palced in the same setting of a zombie world. If there was a meaningful ending that made sense of the whole charade the movie would be stunning, buts its one of those movies which compeltely falls apart at teh point where a slight bit of intelligent writing wouldve made it a spectacular movie.
I disagree with anonymous.
I believe this film is a rare treat. There could be a reason why Anonymous could not GET the film, was because it was character driven. Hollywood focuses too much on plot templated films. IE: Seen it once, seen them all.
This movie was character driven and the story unfolded as the movie went along. classic story telling incorporating classic horror genres.
I rented the movie for the gore and horror, but I was pleasantly surprised with a good plot and character development.
Sure, its a far cry from novelty zombie horror by having vampires, aliens, and satanic genres. Some people may not like it; However, I did.
hats off to Jason and Blaine.
-Frisco the Navajo