After Effect (2012)

The US army wants a new biological weapon and they are testing it on volunteer students who want to make a quick thousand dollars. Once a group is selected they are put into the facility equipped with cameras, then gassed which is how the drug is administered. They sit back and watch the results.The drug makes them bleed from all orifices, then gives them a surge of energy making them incredibly strong wanting just to kill. They look like demon zombies. The difference in this film is that the infected people can be killed like how anybody could be. They don't take 50 bullets and keep going.My only complaint is the overplayed premise and Daniel Baldwin's presence.

I cannot believe I wasted my time watching this movie. The only scary part of this movie was realizing that I actually paid to see it. The script is child like, the direction is not even there, and which Baldwin is this, oh yeah the one they kept locked up in the basement. About two minutes into the movie I actually wanted to just gouge my eyes out, but I thought it has to get better I mean it could not get any worse. I was really wrong in these lines of thinking, I read the previous reviews on here and thought this might not be a bad movie. These reviews must be relatives of someone involved in the film because no competent person could possibly find anything thrilling about this film. PLEASE DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE!!!!!

A mixed bag of students and poor people sign up to be test subjects for a new drug with the promise of $1000 for their time. Of course it turns out that it's the army secretly looking to test their latest bio weapon on the unsuspecting volunteers. For the first 30 minutes hardly anything happens as we follow our hapless lovers go about their dull lives. When we finally get the volunteers all in one place they are all dosed with the gas (strangely one by one rather than all together), which wastes away some more screen time. Then in for next 50 minutes or so there's lots of running around seemingly endless corridors with the victims screaming and shouting at each other as the gas slowly takes effect. Oh, and the "twist" is that two of the group have unknowingly been given a vaccine which is also under test and may or may not work. A fairly poor execution of a story that's been told many times before. Watch 28 Days Later instead

I really enjoyed this film. I felt that it was a great Friday night flick. An entertaining film that gives you what you are looking for when you want to watch a thriller/scary movie with your buddies. Covers all the bases to engage you with the plot and characters. I don't think that the story line is new, however, I thought it was well written and the actors did a great job to capture my attention. After Effect has several great action scenes that have point of view shots that I thought were very cool and would make Michael Bay jealous. There were also these transition shots that brought you in from being a viewer to being apart of the experiment. Felt like that was extremely creative. A thriller film must have gruesome special effects to set it apart. When I watch an alien/zombie type movie, make up and effects, better be awesome to keep the story "real" and me believing. Now because of After Effect I have to ask myself how desperate in need of cash do I have to be in order to participate in a paid research study. Damn these movies and their psychological effects! NO spoilers here, see the movie!