Edges of Darkness (2008)

This is less of a review and more of a warning: STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE. Seriously. As a fan of zombie films, it's quite often that I come across a terrible one. Sadly, for every really good zombie movie, there are several, total shit efforts that follow. Edges of Darkness, from writers/directors Blaine Cade and Jason Horton, is one such effort, that actually made me contemplate if it was in fact the worst zombie movie I had ever seen (for the record, I think Dead Country still holds that title).

Essentially a three-part movie, Edges of Darkness has three separate stories that never intersect; all three take place in different apartments, and all with zombies supposedly outside. Zombies come up so infrequently, in fact, that Edges of Darkness shouldn't be considered a zombie movie, but a poor attempt at a Creepshow-like horror movie instead. Unlike Creepshow, however, the stories aren't very good, well-acted, or interesting. One sees a writer who's computer ends up morphing into something else, a husband and wife who are vampires and trap a woman to feed on (sounds better than it is since they never show fangs and can open the windows to sunlight), and a woman who tries to keep a boy alive from a group of priests (whose priests' collars seem to be comprised of backwards black t-shirts with white handkerchiefs sticking out) who believe the boy is the anti-christ. On the surface, I realize these stories might sound promising, but the execution ruins any chance of that.

The only impressive thing about Edges of Darkness is that the movie has received any kind of distribution whatsoever. How is it possible that a movie so horrible (and seemingly shot on someone's Flip camera), can be rented through Netflix? It should give other low-budget filmmakers hope that, with a little more time spent writing and executing (please), they could release their horror movies to the public. To that end, Cade and Horton are heroes, and I can congratulate them on that one point.

But that's it. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.