I've seen a lot of low budget action/sci-fi/horror movies and many of them are absolutely awful these days, but DAYLIGHT'S END stands out as something a bit better than the usual suspects. It's a zombie film treated as a police thriller with an attempt at RAID-style intensity, and generally the direction lifts it above the generic nature of the plot ingredients. The casting director has also had a ball putting the likes of Lance Henriksen and Louis Mandylor in this, and the effort pays off.

But it didn't. Low budget movie but it's actually a decent watch. Usually when I've watched B-flicks with these themes they just come off as cheesy or cheap. This films uses it's effects very well and doesn't try to be more than what it is. Actually the movie seems to have been perfectly made for it's budget. The costumes and makeup looked good. Why the 7/10 though? Well I never nit pick low budget films like this where they got the job done of being entertaining. Only problems I had with the film is that the grenades had terrible effects and should of just been left out. The guns just seemed to last forever like they had infinite ammo.

As a gun enthusiast myself it always bugs me when the guns don't seem realistic especially in apocalypse movies where they should be conserving ammo. It also kept getting on my nerves that the main character had a semi auto rifle but it fired like it was a sub machine gun. Even worse it was a "Socom 16" rifle (which it said on the bolt. Those rifles take ammo that isn't exactly easy to come by and it's also very expensive ammo. It really would be the last type of weapon you'd want in an apocalypse because you would never find any ammo for it yet he's firing rounds like he put in an infinite ammo cheap code.

Other part of the movie I didn't enjoy so much were some of the other characters with the exception of Sam and Annabelle they all actually seem pretty unlikable. Johnny Strong (haha what a name) the main character pulled off the likeable hero part. The other characters though I mean it was a tough choice between who was the bigger jerk. Acting wise the acting fit the movie.

So yeah a 7/10 for this movie. It was a decent watch for this type of genre.

This is another end of the world formula film. Thomas Rourke (Johnny Strong) is the rogue element who has survived on his own fighting berserker creatures who only come out at night. In Dallas he meets up with a group of people who want to find an airplane (try the airport) so they can all fly off to "Brave New World." Lance Henriksen plays the tough guy the head of the group, and Chelsea Edmundson the token leading lady saved by Thomas. Thomas has a plan, but nothing goes as planned.

Like most films of this nature, the budget confines it to a limited amount of sets. The idea that after two years fuel stabilizers might be needed is not entertained. This is a low budget "Mad Max" plus infected vampire-zombies. Characters are stereotyped.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity