I enjoyed this, although it does have a lot of problems.
First up the concept is excellent, and the story has a flow of episodes (7 chapters) that keep changing the emphasis. I was expecting a survival tale of demobbed confederate soldiers returning home to find The Shire has been taken over by evil, but instead we shift to 6 years later.
The acting is mostly good, but the dialogue they're given isn't much to write home about. How about making the surgeon a bit crazy? The zombies are fine if not all that menacing or gory. They missed a trick in not showing how an earlier technology would have had peculiar problems - reloading the musket in the opening scene was the only one I saw.
The scenes in the tunnels were a bit cheap, and it was unbelievable that they hadn't been fortified. So the heroes got in and out too easy, and the zombies filed in like the sales had just begun.
Biggest problem was the voice over. Early on it was used way too much instead of efficient dialogue - for example the hero meets his zombified neighbour, Charles, and the VO gives a spiel about this being the neighbour. The actor should just have said, "Charles, your wife used to bring us pies!" then blown his brains out. Plus the actor got to do a lot of flash-back agonising while the VO droned on with observations we can already see on the screen. Plus, instead of the VO, Eve should have told a shortened version of how the plague spread.
I did like the animations. Sometimes the music was too much.
Overall the intro should have been snappier and more coherent, and the moralising minimised.
First up the concept is excellent, and the story has a flow of episodes (7 chapters) that keep changing the emphasis. I was expecting a survival tale of demobbed confederate soldiers returning home to find The Shire has been taken over by evil, but instead we shift to 6 years later.
The acting is mostly good, but the dialogue they're given isn't much to write home about. How about making the surgeon a bit crazy? The zombies are fine if not all that menacing or gory. They missed a trick in not showing how an earlier technology would have had peculiar problems - reloading the musket in the opening scene was the only one I saw.
The scenes in the tunnels were a bit cheap, and it was unbelievable that they hadn't been fortified. So the heroes got in and out too easy, and the zombies filed in like the sales had just begun.
Biggest problem was the voice over. Early on it was used way too much instead of efficient dialogue - for example the hero meets his zombified neighbour, Charles, and the VO gives a spiel about this being the neighbour. The actor should just have said, "Charles, your wife used to bring us pies!" then blown his brains out. Plus the actor got to do a lot of flash-back agonising while the VO droned on with observations we can already see on the screen. Plus, instead of the VO, Eve should have told a shortened version of how the plague spread.
I did like the animations. Sometimes the music was too much.
Overall the intro should have been snappier and more coherent, and the moralising minimised.