A group of strangers shelter in an isolated farm house as the zombie apocalypse begins. Can they work together to survive or will the rivalries and disagreements between them prove even more dangerous than the horde of flesh-eating undead outside?
If you've ever seen Night of the Living Dead you're probably thinking "gee, that sounds familiar". And it should, because in the expansive realm of low budget zombie flicks, A Killing Strain's primary claim for distinction is the extent to which it borrows from the film that defined the genre. Not that this movie is like Romero's masterpiece in all ways, of course. It has a confirmed cause for the zombie outbreak, for instance, which the older film avoided.
Oh, and A Killing Strain is also different from Night of the Living Dead in that it's terrible. The acting's mostly bad, for one thing, though to be fair to the cast it's hard to imagine anyone making some of the scenes in this script work. For instance, there's an awkward conversation about fried coke that goes on for several minutes. It's a scene that would land with a thud even if much of the performance wasn't stilted and uncomfortable.
Just in case bad acting and scripting wasn't enough, though, you can be sure this film also delivers bad action choreography and effects work. It's nothing if not consistent in being of poor quality.
The world is full of low budget zombie films, presumably because it's comparatively easy to make them. There's a very good chance I'll see at least a couple more in the course of this month, in fact. I can only hope that if I do, they offer something at least a little more interesting than this film does.
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