A batch of forensic students under the watchful eye of their no-nonsense professor (Hawkman himself, Michael Shanks) get to practicing forensics field work on a dreary island housing a temporary body farm. While working with the corpses they come to learn that this island was once home to a prison where those in power experimented on death row inmates and said experiments have the nasty side effect of bringing the dead back to life. Difficult work monitored by their cranky professor is one thing but soon our group of heroes are up against flesh-hungry zombies/former prisoners on a piece of land with limited supplies, damaged equipment and no safe exit. Her humble fabulous Katherine Isabelle gets top billing and that makes me insanely happy. She’s joined by a cast of young and seasoned pros including Brendan Fehr (Roswell), my dude Brendan Fletcher (Supernatural, Freddy vs Jason) and Jesse Moss (Tucker and Dale vs Evil) among them. The decayed monsters sprinting around the island are delightfully realized and there’s some nasty violence dished out in especially gruesome set pieces. The first murder is brutal and lets you know this bad boy will not be fucking around. The number of threats grow as those slaughtered have the nasty habit of regenerating. Impressively watchable genre fare from a time when the market was oversaturated with the living dead thanks to a stellar cast, solid special effects and a simple enough plot with a unique setting. Also, Katherine Isabelle makes for an easy to root for fighter. It’s still a zombie movie from the twenty-tens so (for me) it can only provide so much entertainment but thankfully this is on the high end of the familiar scenario. A nothing ending also leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
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