Deadsight (2018)

• Year: 2018
• Released: 10 Jan 2020
• Country: Canada
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8551868/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/deadsight
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Horror
• Runtime: 81 min
• Writer: Liv Collins, Kevin Revie
• Director: Jesse Thomas Cook
• Cast: Liv Collins, Adam Seybold, Ry Barrett

	4.2/10
	27% – Audience

Deadsight Storyline

An amnesic blind man awakes alone in the back of an ambulance and unsuccessfully tries to contact anybody using the radio. Soon he finds zombies attacking him but he succeeds to flee to a farmhouse where he hides himself. Meanwhile the pregnant police officer Mara Madigan is lured by a sick woman and her police car is hijacked. She walks on the road and reaches the same farmhouse where the blind man is hidden. She decides to look for the ambulance to leave the place but it has run out of gas since the man, Ben Neilson, had started the car and left it working. Now Mara and Ben need to team up to escape from the zombies.

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A ZOMBIE TWIST

With the appearance of THE WALKING DEAD some years back now zombie films became the big thing for a while. Zombie films were popping up as fast as, well, zombies in a zombie movie. While that’s good on one hand for fans of the genre it’s bad as well. The genre became stale and predictable. So when something different comes along its worth making note of it. DEADSIGHT is that something new.

The film opens through the blurred vision of some inside an ambulance who then passes out. When he wakes, there’s no one around him. Still not quite able to see he discovers he’s handcuffed to the gurney. He finds a bottle of eye drops in his pocket and puts some in which helps a small bit. Still somewhat blind he replaces his bandages and tries to find out what happened.

Once outside it isn’t long before one of the ambulance attendees attacks him, growling while doing so. Ben (Adam Seybold), as we learn later is his name, defends himself but soon the other attendant is upon him. A truck coming by with an armed man in the back shoots hitting the attendant and saving Ben’s life but doesn’t stop.

While this is going on police officer Mara Madigan (Liv Collins) wakes up and gets ready for work. Obviously pregnant she dresses and heads out. She had heard Ben calling for help on the ambulance radio and heads his direction to find out what was going on. When she gets nearby a woman in the road stops her. Obviously in the midst of changing she steals Mara’s car and takes off down the road leaving Mara on foot.

Through determination and sheer luck Ben has made his way to a farmhouse, attacked once more outside. He takes down this zombie and begins to explore the house, counting off steps as he goes. Attacked once again it seems like the end for Ben when Mara shows up and shoots the zombie. Assessing the situation the pair decide to work together and make their way back to the ambulance. When it becomes apparent they can’t make it with Mara guiding Ben, she heads out on her own.

The predicaments that this pair come up against with Mara’s being pregnant and Ben being blind are what make this movie a bit different than most. This twist works well within the confines of the zombie genre and brings something new to the table. There’s little change in the zombies but the only options are fast of slow. In this film they’re both for some reason, perhaps due to the time of death. We also get an explanation for the outbreak for once, a variation of a flu shot that went bad.

The one thing that could ruin a movie like this is placing the roles of Ben and Mara in the hands of bad actors. While I’ve not heard of much by either Seybold or Collins both do a great job here. They play the roles as believable rather than ridiculing the characters. They also don’t overact, a problem found in many low budget films being made in the horror genre. And yes, this is a low budget film.

But that doesn’t stop it from being entertaining and interesting. In fact the low budget might actually be a plus here. The film works well in the rural setting (perhaps a tribute to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, which can also be seen when someone is killed in a cemetery by hitting their head on the corner base of a tombstone), much better than it would have in an urban one. The pregnancy, while not the first seen in a zombie flick (the remake of DAWN OF THE DEAD) it plays well here as Mara is the only one who can see.

I’ve seen some review take the movie to task for issues that stem from the budget and I think that’s a bit unfair. For me I was interested throughout the movie never feeling that urge to press the fast forward button to get to the good parts. The combination of interesting story and solid acting made it worth watching and a film I would recommend to those who enjoy a good horror film with something new to offer.

Cant understand the hating.

Blind guy in a zombie apocalypse is a nice take, which has enough suspense until the pregnant woman joins, who is a bit much. Make up is fine while effects show its a cheap movie, as does the hurried ending. Still nice enough movie for fans.

Zombie virus

Have a thing for good concepts in films, love it when the film, shows etc lives up to it or exceeds it but hate it when it is wasted by lacking execution or when it doesn’t quite hit the mark. There are numerous examples of both in film and television, but recently it has sadly leaned towards the latter and it is especially frustrating when the concept is more than good and then there are other things that show so much potential.

‘Deadsight’s’ concept was one of the best for any film seen recently, and that it appeared like it tried to do something different is to be admired. It was not an over-familiar one, and while there are recognisable elements of course for a film with zombies didn’t find myself thinking that it was your typical zombie film and don’t really class it as one. More a horror-thriller with them featured. The good news is that in my view, the concept was not wasted, as there are good things about ‘Deadsight’. Do think however that there was big potential to do so much more and it was one of those not sure what to make of it films.

Will start with the good things. ‘Deadsight’ looks good, surprisingly so considering the cover made it look as though it would look very cheesy and cheap. That’s not the case, found the photography stylish and atmospheric, the effects are not overused or abused and the make-up is suitably freaky and doesn’t look goofy. There is some eeriness in the music, and there are tension and thrills to be had (there could have been more certainly but they were there) and genuine they were too.

The two lead characters are worth rooting for, their chemistry unforced, and while the zombies are underused they do have menace. Adam Seybold and Liv Collins fare more than adequately in the lead roles, even actually found them good where they seemed to care about their predicament.

On the other hand, there are things that ‘Deadsight’ could have done better. The story, even for one with a deliberate pace, did drag and there are uneventful stretches that indicated that there wasn’t enough in the story to sustain the length. While a good job is done with the leads, the other characters are very bland and don’t fit as comfortably, some didn’t seem necessary either.

Also felt that the dalogue could have flowed much better and when there was any it was a little too heavy on exposition, especially in the early portions. The film really peters out at the climax, it is predictable, any attempts at explanation (and too much is left unanswered) are vague and there is a complete lack of tension or anything really.

In conclusion, not an easy film to rate. Not bad but could have been much better. 5/10