![]() ![]() Horror movies have remained popular over the years, and there’s a steady demand for low-budget films to satisfy fans of blood and scares. Movie theaters, cable television, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs on retailer shelves and now online VOD (Video on Demand) platforms, all provide ways for the audience to pay a fair price for their entertainment. Its below average story, its nothing characters, its poor pacing and so much more, creates the perfect storm of mediocrity.What do we mean by “distribution”? There are actually a wide variety of avenues to deliver your film to the platforms and markets where it can be viewed and purchased by the public. There’s no age barrier and the whole, because students are broke and need money idea, falls apart when you just point it back to the homeless.Īfter Effect is bad movie. There’s no reason given in the movie as to why it needs to be students. In fact, they don’t even need to pay them. Why take such a colossus risk when they could literally pick up countless homeless people who would happily take part for the promise of $1,000. Shady government human experiments that go as high as the vice-president of the USA and why they choose students that will be missed when they just disappear. What are we talking about? Well, it relates to the whole premise. Perhaps the worst thing about After Effect is one pull on one thread brings the whole thing crumbling down. ![]() The early promise of guttural body horror never realised and the laughably bad attention to detail making it all feel cheap. Early attempts to flesh them out fall flat as it amounts to nothing but window dressing. That’s not helped by a cast who have very little chemistry, offer up bland performances and little reason for you to care if they live or die. It’s all very confusing and not at all entertaining because, aside from some liberal gore, the lack of threat from these infected adds very little fear factor. Some are affected quickly others make it right up until the very end. Then we have one that almost becomes superhuman, attacking and getting the better of several armed and trained soldiers. Yet another, just gets very aggressive and with most of his mental faculties about him. After, she seems to turn into something zombie-like. As one woman starts to bleed from orifices and has her hair fall out. Or at least it would, if the film wasn’t so slow and confused about how the gas works.Īt first, it seems like it might have some side effects that involve mutations. Of course, the group of lab rats are all given the experimental treatment and chaos ensues shortly after. Drop it on a group of people and they will be driven into a homicidal rage and kill each other. Eventually, at the end of the movie, and well after most will have switched off, it’s revealed that the gas they have been experimenting on is for use in war. Instead, all the villainous characters speak in cryptic ways as though everyone, including us, are completely aware of their plans and motivations. ![]() So, what’s the experiment and why are they doing it? The film does a terrible job of explaining this. The latter is the name-value of this film and is given top billing even though he is in only a handful of scenes and says/does absolutely nothing of worth. Who is reporting directly to sinister senator, Davis (Daniel Baldwin). ![]() Unbeknownst to them though, this experiment comes from a shady part of the government, overseen by sinister military official, Sanders (John Turk). As does the rest of the volunteers which incudes Lacie’s friend Killian (Matthew Lucki). It seems harmless enough and it means only being away for a few days. She sees a flyer on a bulletin board offering $1,000 for volunteers willing to take part in a blind medical experiment and figures, why not? Lacie (Tuckie White) is a college student heading into a break in the semester and in need of cash. If you’ve seen one of these movies, you seen them all. Yet, thanks to a contrived and boring story, unlikable and boring characters, an innate lack of care for detail and some ‘phoned’ in performances, After Effect is a whole lot worse. Released in the same year as The Facility (in North America at least), an average ‘medical research gone wrong’ horror, After Effect walks a nearly similar path to that movie. ![]()
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