A group of rough the edges blue collar guys band together to form a special team in order to fight back against the undead after a zombie infestation sweeps the country. A standard premise for sure, but fortunately writer/director Patrick Devaney treats said familiar premise with complete seriousness and a welcome dearth of pretense, with no silly humor or campy winking at the audience. Moreover, Devaney does an able job of creating and sustaining a powerfully unsettling mood of mounting dread and executes a rip-roaring action set piece with the squad squaring off against the zombies in a tenement basement with real skill and punch. Our protagonists are an engagingly scruffy bunch of working class dudes: Devaney as the rugged and sarcastic Billy Cassidy, Rick Martinez as the two-fisted John Salazar, and Christopher J. Murphy as the hard-bitten Bates. The zombies are quite scary, relentless, and ferocious. Of course, we also get a handy helping of in-your-face unflinching graphic gore. The gritty New York City locations provide a certain harsh urban tang. Kudos are also in order for Bernadette McCallion's funky pounding score and the cool rough'n'grainy cinematography by Devaney and Mark Boutros. Potent stuff.
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