Stake Land

Bursts with action, ideas and interesting characters.

Horror fans will celebrate Stake Land, and future horror-film directors should go to school on it. The flame is still burning -- and it keeps the undead away, at least for a while.

A highly satisfying low-budget horror-thriller from helmer/co-writer Jim Mickle.

Director Jim Mickle, who co-wrote the film with his star Nick Damici, has crafted a good-looking, well-played and atmospheric apocalyptic vision.

Mickle's observation of a devastated working-class America is so sharp that the horror elements, though effectively handled, come to feel like an afterthought.

It is a film of many ploooooches, meaning: stake in the chest? Ploooooch goes the sound effect. Yank it out again: ploooooch. Wipe. Rinse. Repeat.

The whole movie aches from tired blood.

I'm surprised there's so few reviews for this one. I found it to be incredibly enjoyable, the atmosphere, the acting, the action, the suspense. It's all there, and it all works like it should

Stake Land is a decent, atmospheric vampire/zombie film. Yet, it's made-for-tv budget let's it down. The film is often cheesy, lacks much in terms of character depth and the plot is largely forgettable. I came very close to ending the film within the first 15 minutes, I found it cheesier and lower budget than even the tv show The Walking Dead, but the ridiculously high reviews made me stick with it, and while I still think they're grossly overrating the film, it is pretty watchable.

Meh. It's not a bad movie, but it's not a good movie either. The characters often do stupid things apparently for no other reason than to further the story (sleeping out in the open, then abandoning the previously proven safety of a vehicle to run through a cornfield to name but a couple foolish things). And despite the world ending as we know it under a wave of vampires, with people living in constant fear and scavenging to survive, apparently civilization is still intact enough for people to make a living as barbers and bartenders in the ****, okay. If you're a diehard fan zombie/apocalypse movies, it's probably worth a look. Just go in expecting nothing better than a decent made-for-TV original SyFy movie, and you can't be disappointed.

The first third is good, the second third is bad and the final third is laughable, and not in a good way. It ends up taking itself far too seriously but doesn't have to writing chops to back that up. It evens runs out of ideas completely, resorting to cringing cliche.

its actually a bad movie i have no idea how people would give it more than 3 out of 10, its has maybe one or two good scenes the rest its just blatantly boring and stupid, the story felt like it was inspired by a cheap PS2 apocalypse game, good poster ****, boring, and pointless storybad actingbad characters awful villainsbad soundtrackworst ending i have seen in a whilestay far away from it!