Inzombnia

A voice over explains that insomnia has reached pandemic proportions, turning people into mindless zombies. While watching TV one night Vic is interrupted by a frantic dude who has with him a cure. Unfortunately he can no longer deliver it to where it needs to go as he is “turning”. He gives the task to Vic and asks him to shoot him in the head to save him the misery of inzombnism. Vic’s mission has begun! Pig’s Guts Films have been around now since 2009 methinks (formally Tannock’s team) and they’ve shown the benefit of that experience by delivering a great short. The story isn’t particularly original but they have executed it really well – in particular a great first and final act. The middle gets a bit too “walky” and “shooty” for a bit too long but it does build quite nicely to climax. Tech wise it all sounds and looks good with a couple of the POV shots particularly effective. Great locations, convincing acting and overall a very complete film. Without doubt their best 48HR film and a long way from the days of Four Swine ( as funny as that was) My personal favourite from the first night of heats. Awesome work!

This team has matured well over the last few years as is evident in this great effort. I liked the circular story line and while the story was fairly typical of zombie movies, they made good use of the elements and I liked the narrative at the start. A really good ending too and some nice shots through out.

One of the things I hate is films that start with a long expository sequence of voiceovers and title cards (and often maps). However, it seems to define a genre, and it's used to great effect here, and so I found myself not minding it so much. I loved "getting" the twist just as it was happening, which is a sure sign that the story was paced well.

Great intro. I liked the editing/end of it. Great sound effects when the title is revealed. Great opening shot behind the guy's head. Loved the transition from eating cereal to everything going dark, music end/sound effect. Nice audio recording, very clear. Where did the gun come from? Nice special effects with the gun. Nice transtion from day to night when the hero is walking and getting tired. Good creepy atmospheric sound effecst/music, too. Super solid effort and pretty amazing considering you're all still in high school. Keep at it and you'll be a force to be reckoned with.

(Viewed at the City Finals.) My first, gut reaction upon seeing zombie film + young team was "oh no, another derivative gorefest". Which is why, especially for the zombie premise, it was very refreshing to see the required character trait of insomnia cleverly inform the very basis of the explanation of where these zombies come from. And following this unusual logic, people with zen-like calm, capable of restfulness, were immune to the epidemic. And amusingly, the filmmakers seemed to be suggesting that console gameplayers were the most zen people of all. I guess. So our hero begins the story as a housebound slob (apparently not worried about the potentially deadly hordes just outside). He is interrupted by another non-zombie coming in with the urgent news that he is carrying a cure on a flashdrive, which must be delivered to a sanctuary in the south. And then he asks the main guy to kill him, before he turns. Which he does. And thus begins a trek across the zombie-infested landscape, featuring our hero heroically but hilariously unnecessarily leaping over a small pile of gravel. Many zombies are dispatched with extreme prejudice, with entire clips of ammo seemingly being unloaded into single bodies in some cases (which made the remark later on about being low on ammo come across as quite funny). But nitpicks aside, the whole sequence was pretty well handled, and set us up for the final scene, which should have been obvious but surprisingly wasn't - our hero is becoming the near-zombie same as the guy he met at the start. And so we have an echo scene, with him finding another survivor, giving the instructions, and asking to be shot. And that's it. A brilliantly simple circular structure that made the whole film become a lot more awesome than any of its individual parts. Great work.

A voice over explains that insomnia has reached pandemic proportions, turning people into mindless zombies. While watching TV one night Vic is interrupted by a frantic dude who has with him a cure. Unfortunately he can no longer deliver it to where it needs to go as he is “turning”. He gives the task to Vic and asks him to shoot him in the head to save him the misery of inzombnism. Vic’s mission has begun! Pig’s Guts Films have been around now since 2009 methinks (formally Tannock’s team) and they’ve shown the benefit of that experience by delivering a great short. The story isn’t particularly original but they have executed it really well – in particular a great first and final act. The middle gets a bit too “walky” and “shooty” for a bit too long but it does build quite nicely to climax. Tech wise it all sounds and looks good with a couple of the POV shots particularly effective. Great locations, convincing acting and overall a very complete film. Without doubt their best 48HR film and a long way from the days of Four Swine ( as funny as that was) My personal favourite from the first night of heats. Awesome work!