Odelecol
Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
ActuallyGlimmer
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
Janis
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
mattressman_pdl
Die(ner) is a simple little horror film made for very, very little money. When accepting that, one can find quite a lot of enjoyment out of it.It's about a serial killer who murders a waitress and short-order cook during the graveyard shift of a roadside diner, only to run into some problems. The first is an arguing couple who come in and want to be served and the second is that his victims are about to come back to life as zombies. Throw in an old sheriff, some wry dialogue, and some originality and you have the recipe for a fun little microbudget horror movie.The only drawback is, as with most low budget films, the action is low and some of the performances are stiff, but the lead playing the serial killer is quite charismatic. Just give it a chance, especially if you're disillusioned by Hollywood horror movies.
yeodawg
A charming wise-cracking serial killer, sets up shop at an all-nite diner. Hoping to lake-out the 3rd-shifters that come in for coffee and pie. A bickering couple comes in and just as he's about to get started, here comes the dearly departed. Now this isn't a barricade the restaurant from the oncoming zombie apocalypse, in fact they don't even lock the doors. instead its a big farce as the couple has to wrap their brains around the fact that their brain eaters in they have to restrain. As they try to un-animate the recently re-animated. They also try and get help. As well as realizing their host is a serial killer who they have to escape from while avoiding the zombies. In one funny scene they ask the killer why he has a bag full of tape and rope? Well it's a tape and rope bag what else would you keep in it?
Slowblivion
Our story starts with Ken sitting casually in a rural diner chatting with his waitress, Rose. This conversation is tongue in cheek and results in the death of both Rose and the only other person in the diner, the cook. Of course, this is because Ken is a serial killer. While hiding the bodies, Ken is interrupted by Rob and Kathy who bicker about her want for a divorce not moments before entering the diner. Tending to them (with the intent of killing them, Ken is again interrupted by Sheriff Duke who strolls in for a coffee. Mysteriously, the two dead bodies hidden in the freezer reanimate and end up biting Duke in the neck. Rob and Kathy realize Ken is a killer and are essentially held hostage by him as he plays around carelessly for much of the film. Eventually Rob is eaten by a zombie in a truck outside the diner and Kathy is shot by a incompetent deputy sheriff and eaten by zombies. Ken gets his by being eaten by a group of zombies. Oh, and a very important denouement of a zombie getting into a truck. The plot is disappointing. Too much rides on Ken talking mostly to himself as other characters whine and wince uncomfortably. This of course is probably important as the whole film occurs on happenstance so to fill the void from one event to the next, needless chatter is placed. The story itself is too small for the roughly 80 minute runtime. Characters don't progress in any arch and the end result is everyone dies leaving me as a viewer to wonder...what was the point? Am I supposed to feel scared? Am I suppose to laugh? is there a subtext which I clearly don't pick up on? Was I supposed to side with Ken and his 2 cent serial killer philosophies which seem regurgitated from many other films or the whiney do nothing couple who have no respect for each other? I simply don't know. As this is a zombie film, gore has to me mentioned. It's not a lot... In fact, there's really only one decent zombie bite which is pretty tame and standard. Gore is nothing special. Continuity suffers a bit as boom shadows can be seen several times as well as blinds being open then closed at various times as well as general prop placement. Also story continuity is lacking, They're supposed to be somewhere in rural Idaho where it's "the loneliest place on the loneliest highway" yet at the end there are 20-30 zombies pouring into the diner... why? where'd these people come from? Acting conveyed little for me as the characters are so unlikeable to begin with it's hard to say that had they been done better the story and film would have been different. Music is repetitive and generic. Camera work is basically fine minus the fact that in many shots actors are framed awkwardly and focus at times is poor. (I say this is basically fine because you can't pick too much on such things given budget and what the film apparently was) Overall, just not very good. I give credit to Josh Grote (Ken) who I think did pretty well overall. And yes he does look and at times sound very much like Edward Norton. Honestly, if you take Paul Rudd and Ed Norton you have Josh Grote. I can't recommend this film based on the idea that I truly don't believe it's entertaining. It's not funny, not scary, not mock worthy, not gory, not original, not shot well, not set well, doesn't offer any real message...etc. This film has little going for it other than being produced in 8 days and for $500,000. (that's not impressive but it shows me that things were probably rushed and corners had to be cut) 2 out of 10.
Paul Celano (chelano)
First I want to point out the only actor I enjoyed 100%. That was Joshua Grote. Now the rest of the cast was pretty good at their parts. Not all the zombies though, some of the zombies were pretty bad. This film has a lot of dialog in it and Grote is speaking most of it. His character is not all there in the head and he did a great job of acting that way. I enjoyed watching him talk. But too much talking in the film lead to being a little bored. There was a couple gore scenes, but no real excitement. The scare factor was low too. Also there was some things that they touched base on in the film that were never resolved. One important thing had to do with Grote's character and I wish they would of resolved it. But overall it was a fun movie to watch. But it had just as many good moments as bad ones.
