Obviously made on an infinitesimal budget that was probably spent mostly on digital cameras, fake blood and all the cans of beer the characters drink in one of the first scenes, Darkest Day is a plucky if hardly original British zombie film. Like so many other films and TV shows involving an undead menace, it focuses on the group dynamic among a group of so-far uninfected strangers, although this iteration goes somewhat against convention by having all the survivors be studenty twentysomethings instead of a more heterogeneous mix of ages and types. Unfortunately, this makes it look more like a film-school project, an impression reinforced by the lumpen acting, one-man-and-a-synth soundtrack, and the stilted, dubbed-sounding dialogue. Nevertheless, bits of it, like the editing, aren’t half bad, and the use of Brighton and the South Downs makes for a refreshing change of location.
