By Day’s End (2020)

• Year: 2020
• Released: 17 Mar 2020
• Country: United States
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4693840/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/by_days_end
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• Genre: Horror, Romance
• Runtime: 74 min
• Writer: Justin Calen-Chenn, Michael Souder
• Director: Michael Souder
• Cast: Lyndsey Lantz, Andrea Nelson, Joshua Keller Katz
• Keywords: lgbt, zombie, found footage, gun, mockumentary,

2.9/10

By Day’s End Storyline

Love is never an easy road. No one knows that better than Carly and Rina, whose relationship takes a turn for the worse after Carly decides to drop out of med school and Rina loses her job as an attorney. This forces them to move into a motel, a situation neither of them are happy with. To makes matters worse, Rina’s battles with depression have returned and Carly has decided to use what money she has left to buy a camera so she can pursue videography as a profession. Despite the cracks that are starting to show in their relationship, Carly and Rina pledge to repair what has been broken, no matter the circumstances, no matter the odds. But are they both as adamant as they say they are? Unfortunately, time is not on their side. When a pandemic disease ravaging the world appears in their city and starts turning people into crazed flesh eating machines, Carly and Rina decide to keep documenting the occurrence with their camera. Doing so, they are forced to band together like never before in order to survive.

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By Day’s End Movie Reviews

Decent idea that went nowhere

Literally.

This film goes nowhere. It resides in its entirety within a motel room and parking lot. Considering how low budget this was, I wonder if they even had permission to film where they did?

Anyway, “low budget” can be good, if done well, with a clear vision for the film, and a good script.

This film obviously had none of that. The acting is amateurish to the point of distraction. Don’t think “struggling actors trying to make it in the business”, think instead this is “film students who should reconsider their long term goals”.

The plot is “okay”. For something that I’ve seen 100 times before: Couple with pre-existing “issues” must face the end of the world together. Will they get stronger? Will they break up? Do I care? No.

There are also consistency issues here by the oodles with the writing itself, for example, a tough combat vet (?) who brags about killing 7 zombies / whatever then proceeds to almost immediately get snuck up on by the most obvious zombie in film history, and bitten. Aw shucks.

The ending attempts to be a “surprise” ending by being overly pessimistic, but again, this is a recycled, often replayed move in films of this genre. It’s not nearly as witty as it thinks it is, and turns a chore of a film into a pointless slog.

Bleh. Avoid.

It’s ok…!

If you can get past the camera angles, it’s an ok film.

Student film at best

I’m sorry but I hope this film was made by either a bunch of film school students or a low budget indie group because it failed on all spectrums. The acting was almost comical it was so dreadful and the script and story line had more holes than swiss cheese. I actually sat through the whole movie hoping for some redeeming value to it but feel like I just wasted an hour and 15 minutes of my life for a dreadful and depressing ending.