Episode 368: The Silence After (2025) aka Lost in Darkness ((2022)

Our first (and potentially second) zombie movie from Barbados. It is really a post COVID, post vaccine, anti-vaxxer load of tosh in which we barely see anything from the government or the mysterious military chemical facility in the description, and instead are treated to the incompetent Kyle, Kelly-Ann and Bryan as they stumble from one zombie to the next, tripping over their own feet and being inconsistent in their abilities and belief systems.

Now, the gore is good, reminiscent of the 1970s Italian gore-fests from Fulci, and the zombie effects are in keeping too. But the acting and writing is so, so poor. When it is set in a single house, and one room in said house, and the rest is woodland and waste ground surrounded by corrugated iron panels, we aren't in for a fun time.

It was country 46, which was the highlight. The rest was poor. 3/10

Transcript

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Nah, yes, I'm back. It's been a long time, my dear listeners. Last time out, I watched the very awful zombiology from Hong Kong. Every day of the dead from Japan. That was truly, truly terrible. And one of the best zombie movies of the year from Korea, Colony. Either side of a catch-up with indie zombie movie maker Lee Donaldson from Dead Zero. This week, with Michael also hopefully watching Colony, we have an interview with Aaron Truss from the British Zomcom employee of the dead that is trying at the moment to get funding. And it does look superb. The concept work anyway, and whilst I'm also finishing all my cinematography on my own animated movie, Dradel of the Dead. I'm also looking at Netflix and asking them where the fuck is Zed Mom? It came out over a year ago, and you still haven't released it. It would be Cambodian, which would have been our 46th country if it had been out. However, I chanced upon this, The Silence After from 2026, and it's from Barbados. Barbados no less, so it does indeed become our 46th country. This is the Undead Symphony with me, Darren Smith. This is an episode, episode 368. And I am watching The Silence After. In the aftermath of a controversial pharmaceutical experiment, the island of Barbados is thrust into chaos. A mysterious outbreak turns civilians into ravenous reanimated husks of their former selves. The source, a military government contractor known only as Building Six. Now I've just watched this movie. There's very little military government contracting going on. There's very little anything going on, to be fair. Now I've been to Barbados and I think it's absolutely lovely. It would have been interesting to see their take on the zombie story, although the description does look very cliche. And having seen the movie, it is not the Barbados that I spent time in. Indeed, it is the shantytowns and the uh surrounding areas, not at all. The luxurious and stunning uh compound hotels on the beach, uh, like the Sandy Lane and the House, the hotels in which I have been staying. Um it gets a very generous 5.1 out of 10 on IMDB and was written and directed by Stockton Miller. Does that name mean anything to you? I'm sure outside of Barbados it does not. Uh the characters are Romario Kotoy as Kyle, uh Carly Hines as Jacob, and Gabriella Bovell as Kelly Ann. Insert Shrug emoji here, if you're not heard of any of those Barbadian actors or actresses. We also have a Linda, a Carl, a Rob, and some doctors. Uh even well, none of them. Not even the Prime Minister in this movie has a photo on IMDB. Even I have a photo on IMDB, albeit that is because I was a producer on the movie Mannequin, and I have 15 other thank yous. So let's see, shall we? Like I said, this is the Undead Symphony with me, David Smith is the resumption of normal duties, and I am reviewing in episode 368 The Silence After from Barbados.

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So let's get it on, shall we? We have blackness and screaming. And then we meet a guy. This is Kyle. He is covered in blood, and he's holding a crowbar. There is a woman, Catherine, who won't stop screaming, and she is holding someone who looks like they've just died. The guy, Kyle, is covered in blood and is being bitten by the looks of it, and everything already looks quite poor. Suddenly we have some drama. Dramatic music, and a zombie crawls in and attacks the woman, and she just let it lets it kill her because her baby, who's in alarms, actually not baby's a teenager, is already dead. We get terrible voiceover. It came viol and this is Kelly and we get it came violent in the dead of night. Camera footage we see from this building six. A duh it's a bit arty, it's trying to be arty. The footage is sort of found footage, it's actually um chest cam from security guards in this building six, which is the supposed secret government uh lab. Um the voiceover says talks about the zombie virus snuffing out life like a candle. Uh so yeah, there were zombies around there killing everybody. The security guard catches different zombie kills uh using the body cam before getting killed himself after a white doctor. Again, this is all seen uh on body cam, but also for some reason the body cam's got night vision. Didn't think they had that. Um, whilst the continued poor voiceover, uh we're supposed to enjoy it. I don't I don't even know if it's possible to enjoy. So um it's a classic medical miracle gone wrong as the awful narration continues with mind and reality splitting as we fought ugly with ugly. That's that's it, ladies and gentlemen. That's the level we we're getting. And I'm already thinking that this was a mistake, and I was only five minutes in. Uh, we now have multiple uh CCTV camera shots of slow shuffling zombies surrounding a car outside. A woman, I think it's a nurse, from the facility trying to get in the car, but literally just walking into the zombies and getting killed. The only thing keeping us alive is fear, apparently. We get a terribly bad CGI helicopter flowing over bridge flying over bridgetown. Um we have three schoolboys and a girl heading to school as we hear about rioting and demonstrating and armored security vehicles, and it's really poor, really poor writing, really poor acting. Now the cinematography isn't awful. Um but they then pass three dead bodies on the ground that are being looked after by paramedics. The locals are getting a bit vocal. The locals are getting vocal at the men in hives who are trying to distract them from what's going on. Whilst they are distracted, the paramedics are then overpowered very easily by the zombies who were up to that point dead and underneath underneath classic sheets. Uh there's then a bit of panic. These are running zombies somehow, or depending on which one you get. Uh, and they are the everyone's running for their lives, but everyone is getting killed, including the kids. Oh my goodness. See, they're shufflers kind of at the start, but then they get up and start running around, and it just doesn't make any sense unless you're gonna argue that the virus affects people in different ways. So, to give them some kudos, uh, the special effects are pretty good. The uh the zombie makeup and the gore from the bites is done well, but the rest is absolute shit as one of the kids trips over his own feet and kills himself by cracking his head on a well-placed rock. And now we meet Brian, an Indian nurse, uh, wandering around to terrible music. Uh, he falls down a bit of an InstaReels hole. Uh uh, actually, to be fair, I fell down an Insta reels hole at this point that lasted longer than the total amount of the movie that I'd seen up to this point. I'd just watched 11 minutes of the movie and I'd spent 12 minutes in Instagram trying to recover from it. Watching videos about dogs and writing the word AI slop and boycott on AI ads. A woman, this is Kelly, turns up and he has been waiting for her. They're kind of colleagues, he is a nurse. I'm guessing she is social services because they're talking about going to find a pregnant homeless woman that they need to check on because she is eight months pregnant. Um, they talk about the anti-vaxxers on the island going mad. Uh, and again, I had to take a break because it was awful. In fact, I'm yawning now. Oh god, I'm yawning, just thinking back on it. So the woman's Kelly, uh, and the nurse is Brian, who's Indian, uh, but speaks with a uh a Barbadan accent. Um, I actually spent quite a lot of time in the in the Caribbean when I used to live in New York because it was easy just to fly straight down there, you know. You go to JFK uh and then just head south, and you know, you go to uh I loved um I love Puerto Rico, so I went to old San Juan, stayed in El Convento in old San Juan. Um I loved Barbados and I loved um the Tucson Caicos Islands. Um I really do want to go back at some point. I'd like to go to um Cuaçao. Um I think it looks quite interesting and pretty. However, um the two of them are talking, and uh while she's talking about well, this vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, Brian says succinctly, this vaccine was made in a week. No testing, no nothing, and we are not guinea pigs. I'm sorry, but you're just a fucking district nurse who is got going off with social services to check on a pregnant homeless person. I doubt if you were in the lab, my boy. Kelly argues that it was developed by the experts and doctors, because the experts might not be doctors, and that the government endorses it, and the government wouldn't do anything to hurt its people. Oh, how naive are you, Kelly? Uh there are kind of overthrows of COVID at times here. We also get these CGI helicopters, and they're kind of like military helicopters flying around behind them because they're sitting quite close to the seawall. Uh, a helicopter flies really low, so it actually pulls up the water behind it, and they don't even react. Because all the helicopters were added in post-production, and they had no idea there was a helicopter behind them because there wasn't an helicopter behind them, with a tanoi telling people to shelter in place and not to engage with the infected. Oi. Where where when a cyclist happens to go past, both of them stop talking and watch them. Oi. This is the whole thing. I've seen it before, where stuff is added in post-production, and the people don't react to it because it wasn't there and they weren't told about it. So basically they're acting to within the scene, the concept of the scene, and they're acting what's there, and then suddenly there's like something else that's added in post-production, they just don't react to it. And I've sort of seen this many a times where there's zombie noises just outside the door, and they're just talking like there isn't, and in this case it's fucking helicopters. Ah. Anyway, I'm happy because I did lots of filming of Draidler the Dead today, got some pickup shots. Uh having someone else's eyes on it is really important. Um, it's gone from 32 minutes of my edit to um Daniel. Just you can come over harsh when you criticize someone, but you're not criticizing, you're saying, well, this doesn't work and this doesn't work. And he actually pointed out some things that didn't work, and removing them and replacing them with other things and doing a little bit of a tidying on down to 28 minutes. Bosh. The vilnious uh animated and short movie festival. Here we come. Anyway, so don't look now, there's a chopper right behind you, but you can't see it because you're focusing on a cyclist eye roll. So Kelly's friend Deirdre, um, who is homeless, well not really friend, she's a social worker, uh, is eight months pregnant. Uh and for some reason Brian's cooked for her, and he kind of must have feelings for her, even though he is not the straightest person, uh, or straightest character, anyway, in this movie. Read in that into what you will. Um he also finds that she she's like doesn't believe in she believes in a vaccine whilst he doesn't. It's like, hold on, you are friends. Surely this whole idea that she doesn't believe she believes in vaccines and you don't would have come up before. Cause you're friends. This isn't the first time you've talked about it, surely. Anyway, apparently Deirdre is difficult to find and homeless with her boyfriend Emmy, I want to say. Kelly then takes a phone call and the acting here is atrocious. This is her musical musician boyfriend Kyle, who was in the beginning of the movie, and it is awful. So I took another pause and jumped on IMDB just to work out what all the characters' names were because I thought for a while Brian's name was either Ryan or Jacob. Uh but it turns out there's another movie by Stockton Miller from Barbados with the Zach same cast, with the exact same names, and it was coming out in 2022 instead of 2025, and it was called Into the Darkness. The description of which is Panic ensues when protests turn violent and civilians are forced into survival as a mysterious viral outbreak plunges the island of Barbados into further darkness. So that was Into the Darkness from 2022. Let's just find the description of this. The silence after. Panic ensues when protests turn violent and civil hold the phone. It's the same bloody film, it's the Michael Avery Factor. Another movie re-released with a different title. But I'm not watching the other one. Let me just put that to bed right now. I am not watching the other one. So Kyle is a working awful musician. He's working on a song, and despite the island is falling apart, people are rioting, uh, there's this vaccine, there are murders. Uh he's trying to make a song and talk to his girlfriend on the phone, and it's awful, awful acting. I needed another pause at this point, and then I fast-forwarded something, and I fast-forwarded it. Uh, and whilst I thought at the time this was bottom five material, uh, I was only 15 minutes in of a 90-minute movie. So now we're in it's night time, and homeless people, including Deirdre, who is heavily pregnant, and her boyfriend Emmy. Nothing says we should have a baby like being homeless, drug and drug addicts, I guess. So they're sleeping in a single-person tent covered in newspapers. Uh her man, Emmy, then starts while he says, You should get some sleep. You're heavily pregnant. And here, eat this cake I found. Uh was given. Uh you're eating for two, which is a uh fallacy. Um however, uh he then, after she gets in the tent with the cake with the cake to sleep, he puts his radio on and wakes her up, making her really angry. We then have cries and screams in the distance, um and then a zombie woman appears and then falls to the ground. Uh they don't know she's a zombie, she just looks like she's bleeding to death. Emmy the guy runs over to her and then is grabbed and bitten by her without fighting her off, and Deirdre runs off into the darkness. Again, the gruesome practical effects are pretty good. I'm gonna give you a point for those. The zombie makeup is pretty good, I'm gonna give you a point for those. I'll probably give you a point for getting something in the can and finished. Again, like I said, the biting and the feeding is very well done. The the makeup of the zombies is good, it's just the acting and the writing and everything else is fucking awful. So, pregnant Deirdre heads off into the jungle, sobbing with a torch, and she finds, and it's actually done quite well, a creepy zombie sitting cross-legged in the um in the jungle. She puts a torch and it's not moving, it's not moveing, it's not moving, and then it sits up straight, cracking its joints and heads towards her. It's actually done quite well. Uh the zombie also was chewing on a hand. Hopefully it was someone else's. Kelly and Brian have been sitting by this car the whole time when a cop turns up to assist them to try to find Deirdre. Kelly then says, It's this way. So, well, if you thought it was that way, Kelly, why have you been waiting around this whole fucking time? Sat on the car with Brian. Why didn't the two of you just head the way that you already know? It is a bit tense but awful. As they find the zombie boyfriend Emmy, and he is bleeding all over the place. But for some reason, his head is out of shot, so we don't actually get to see his head. And I'm wondering, was this even the same actor? Is there a reason that we didn't see his head? Anyway, he is shaken and covered in blood. Kelly asks him, Are you good? Are you good? Jesus, I'm 23 minutes in, and Kelly is asking a man who is covered in blood, literally covered in blood, are you good? The cop also asks, Are you okay? Are you okay? As Zombie Emmy gets closer and closer and closer and closer. Within ha within striking distance, the cop shoots him once, gets one wounding shot off in the body, before the zombie kills the cop. Well fucking should have taken him down before he got too close, you idiots. You know what they say? You know in Leon the Professional when John Renault says we start with a sniper rifle, uh, and then you get a machine gun, and then you get a pistol, and you finally end up with a knife. We should probably do hand to hand after the knife, but if you get close enough to kill someone with a knife, they've got too close. Anyway, uh Brian earlier, because of all the rioting around the vaccine, had bought one of those um telescopic nights, you know, like you can beat people with. Um and he's brought it with him for self-defence, apparently. So when um the zombie uh Emmy comes for him, uh he gives him a tonk round the head. But then he stands over the zombie after giving a tonk round the head to talk about Kelly, and Kelly's like, let's go, let's learn, let's go. But they spend so long, Zombie Emmy gets up and attacks Brian again, only to get walloped again and again. Uh and then knock Brian over because he's fucking useless. At this point I I took a pause to have some ice cream because it's quite hot here. Uh I then took another ten minutes to uh fall into an Instagram hole before coming back to this bag of horse dicks. So pathetic Brian hits like a girl. Kelly runs off into the woods being as noisy as anything, snivelling and whining uh before trying to call her fuck. Quick boyfriend Kyle, who's too busy making his awful music at home with his headphones on. Although her his phone is actually on vibrate. So even with his headphones on, he should have felt the vibrations. And of course, while she's hiding next to a tree, of all the zombies in all the world, the one that comes and tries to get her is Zombie Deirdre, the pregnant zombie, who then starts heading towards her, gives birth on the way, by the way. And what comes out of her placenta and baby is not human in any way, not by the noises it's making. It's a weird monster thing. As Brian arrives just at the last minute to stare at the weird blob for far too long before giving Deirdre a bit of a wallop. They then run off after beating a pregnant newly well new a newly mothered zombie to death to find the cop from before, who was a giant man, they just watch him turn and come after them. But as they stand there doing nothing as it advances on them, it takes a machete through the back of the head from our friend and yours to Jacob, who is the new character we're adding. Back to the studio of the imbecilic wannabe musician Kyle, who puts on the news, and we get the Barbadian version of the classic zombie trope of TV News. The government blaming the violence on criminals. He then gets ready to find Kelly grabbing a crowbar, the same crowbar from the start of the movie. It was him at the start, uh, in a house with Catherine and her son before it all went terribly wrong. So obviously we're gonna end up there at some point. He can hear crying and gunfire as he heads out, and as he's heading out, this is just how pathetic Kyle is. Now, he is the number one listed actor in this. He is supposedly the star. Supposedly the hero. He opens basically they've got these doors, so they've got like the metal grating, the metal barred door for security, and a regular front door. He opens the front door, opens the barred door, and there's a woman there begging for help. But at before he reaches down to help her, she's dragged away into the darkness by a zombie nurse, uh, who then comes after Kyle. But Kyle is too dumb to be able to close either the barred door or his front door. Both of them close naturally. They're on a hinge, which would make them close naturally. All you have to do is actually push them. Uh anyway, uh he then gets bitten on the wrist of all places. Can't close the door, clan can't close the barred grating either. Bitten on the wrist. Uh he then falls over. Nothing, falls over nothing, uh, before the zombie comes into the house and he manages to force it into the bedroom and closes the door, the door opening uh into the bedroom, so the zombie can't get out. Pathetic uh is our Kyle. Talking about pathetic, Brian and Kelly have been saved by Jacob, who seems to be the only one around who's got any idea. Uh he's got a compound, he's been saving people left, right, and centre. Uh and sh he says to Brian, is she gonna be alright? Meaning Kelly. To which Brian, who is a nurse, a medical professional, um, who for the rest of the we're supposed to be checking on an eight-month old pregnant woman, um and who for the rest of the movie does patch people up and help someone who's having a fit, looks back at Kelly and goes, Oh, I think she's in shock. You think she's in shock? You're a nurse. Is that your expert medical opinion? Well, she could be in shock. Thanks, Brian. You're useless. Anyway, Jacob asks them, you know, what's been going on out there. Now I think it was the way that he phrased it because he's been out there the whole time rescuing everyone, including the worst actor of all time, Carl. Carl Yep, Carl. Uh anyway, he's been serving loads of people, and in this compound there are probably a dozen people. Then uh we're back with Kyle, and we have the people from the start, uh, the woman who was crying, Catherine that is, uh, and her son, who we also know was dead. Uh, and they are arguing with her violent husband and father of the son, who is being a real dick and shouty. Kyle goes out there to save the mother and the son and keeps telling the shouty mouthy dad to be fucking quiet. I've just been attacked. Stop drawing attention to here. The guy doesn't listen, and Kyle grabs the mother and the son and heads back indoors, closing the doors after them. We see these white guys, there are a few of them, all of them have got beards, all of them are in well, the loosest of military uniforms, uh, and all of them are armed with a gun and a machete. That classic, classic combo that all armies have. A small pistol and a machete. So gunshots are ringing out then in the neighborhood and everybody is panicked. Um, an armed guy is attacked out the front and is being bitten before Kyle can get to him to help. Uh, idiot son goes out to help too with the carrying the machete, um, only for the gate to start wobbling, and zombie dad comes through. Idiot son falls backwards over nothing, and is gonna be killed by the zombie dad before mum chops him into little pieces uh with the machete until Kyle has to drag her back. Back at the camp, Kelly is spending all her time looking at photos of Kyle, which is a big cliche because Kyle earlier was looking at pictures of Kelly on their phones. How awful. Byan patches everybody up, deals with people who is uh who uh have had fits, maybe epileptic, I think, um, which is amazing as he didn't even recognise that his best friend was suffering from shock earlier. Kelly then decides to head out because she's gonna go and try to find Kyle, and she finds a handgun, which is very weird, and she can hear weird screaming from an old building. Jacob arrives at that point to say, oh no, it's just an old building. There's nothing sinister going on here, which is probably the most sinister thing anybody can say, uh, because it's not at all sinister saying it. Outside of Kyle's place, the white guy um with a machete and a pistol uh is still killing zombies. Kyle helps him and then we sort of see these other zombies, and they were kind of it's very weird. I did fast forward a little bit, but suddenly Idiot's son Kyle and this white guy with a beard and a machete and a gun were in a complex that was kind of painted green. It's not the beginning of the movie, it was outdoors. There were zombies everywhere, and one big zombie in a hazmat suit with a yellow face mask. The leader, though the guy, the white guy, is trying to shoot this zombie thinking it's the leader, and every time they tried he tries to shoot this zombie, one of the other zombies who are shufflers by the way, jump in the way and take the bullet for him. And most of us, i.e. me, were thinking, what the fucking hell has just happened? Did we just jump into a different movie? Because I don't know what any of this be is. The white guy uh goes back to Kyle's and then tries to explain that different people react differently to the virus. Um giving the the COVID analogy. He there he basically says, Well, my mother got COVID and it didn't even what it didn't even affect her at all. I got COVID and I had all the symptoms because obviously um Kyle hasn't turned into a zombie yet, he's been bitten for quite a while. Kyle uh Catherine says, I need to go out and try to find my idiot son. Um, and the guy's like, I can't let anybody go out there. I'm not letting you go out there because on the off chance that he may be alive, I can't risk it. And he actually levels his gun at the two of them. In the most telegraphed of ways, the door slowly opens behind him and he turns, firing, and it's actually the teenage boy who gets hit multiple times and drops down dead, and he wasn't even a zombie. For some reason, Kyle then goes absolutely bananas and then beats the white guy to death with his crowbar off camera for far too long. Now, in the original cut of Draydle of the Dead, Morty Meiselman is a zombie who is beaten to death by Eli for one minute and 40 seconds to this wonderful slow klezma music, and you've just got the shadow of the spiked baseball bat coming up and down and up and down, splitting blood or brains all up the walls, and I loved it. But um anyone that's given me feedback said this is going on for far too long. As I'm chuckling away at 1 minute and 47 beating, they've managed to talk me down to 10 seconds of it now on a uh a drum solo. Um and then we're at the start of the movie. The mother's crying over a dead son, Carl is covered in blood and has been bitten. Uh at the same time, the camp is coming under attack from zombies, uh, because they are silent, these ones, including zombie Carl. Uh, the zombie that came in and then killed the mother, that's Catherine, at the start. He just she just let him kill her, is one of the school kids we saw right at the beginning. And um Kyle just sits there waiting for him to be killed by it next when it just sniffs him and then leaves. Because he is clearly infected, but and that's that makes you question this, right? Because when the zombies attack, they are eating people, they're eating you. Now, eating you versus spreading the virus is very different. 28 days later, they're just trying to spread the virus to you. As soon as you're infected, they move on. Uh Zachia, same for um World War Z. Whereas, you know, Walking Dead and any of the Romeros, the zombies are gonna eat you. Return of the Living Dead, they're trying to eat you because they want the brains, because they want to um have what whatever it is that comes out of the brain that's gonna you know numb the pain of being dead. However, these guys um are don't they just let Carl go. The zombie schoolboy lets Kyle go. Uh back at the camp, zombie Carl is killed by Jacob, and Kelly then goes to steal a car to head to find Kyle. Uh, when a zombie corners her in the car, it turns out that it's Jacob's zombie girlfriend who's been in this building the whole time, and they kind of had an agreement that she wouldn't kill all the people in the camp if he didn't kill her. But clearly the zombie didn't listen, because everybody is now turning up as zombies. Uh he then starts shouting and asking her why they killed their friends. They had an agreement. Kelly shouts to Jacob and then he is bitten by his girlfriend uh as Brian gets in the car and the two of them have a hug. Jacob then kills all the zombies around before he starts turning himself. He then heads back to the old building and sits down and looks at a photograph of his girlfriend after giving Kelly the car keys so they can escape. Now we don't see Kelly anymore, and we don't see Brian uh Brian and Kelly in the car, so we can assume they kind of would go to try to find Kyle, but we don't have any of that information. We're guessing. We're making educated guesses. Uh Kyle is listening to the radio now and being told to survive and survive as he peels the bandage off his bitten wrist, and it's still bloody and nasty. And we keep sc then we then before the credits, we cut back to that weird zombie baby and placenta thing, which is moving and it makes this weird alien noise, and it's just messy and bad. And that was the end. Um we don't know if Carl was found by Kelly or Brian or Kelly and Brian. We don't know if Kelly and Brian went for Kyle. Uh Brian had feelings for Kelly, even though he was clearly gay. Um fuck me. That's what I gotta say. Fuck me. Uh The Silence After, also known as Into the Darkness from Barbados. It was pretty basic, I've gotta say. It's pretty basic. Um we didn't actually follow other than the bearded guy, the white guy who got beaten to death by Kyle after killing the teenage boy. He was the only one who kind of had any knowledge. Everyone else was just dumb and local. Even the fucking nurse and the social worker and the cop were all useless and clueless. Um this is the biggest bunch of idiots, you know, who barely survived like one night of it. Um at the moment we've got Carl, Kyle, who is uh bitten and maybe immune, or maybe one of the lesser infected. Uh the white guy did talk about differing levels of zombification. Um, and then we've got at least Brian and um and Kelly alive in a car. Seems very localized. I mean, the the locations were kind of like by some shitty shops by the w by the water where we met the school kids, what looked like a recreation park. Um we sort of had like Kyle's house, this complex, um, and mostly just wasteland. That's that was it. I mean, to be fair, I mean I spent most of my time on Barbados in Swanky Five Star Hotels, and it's probably what it was like between the Swanky hotels. Um, I don't want to say that, that's probably but it is probably true that this is probably I mean, I'm sure Stockton Miller made quite an authentic Barbadan zombie movie. It was just done badly. I guess the actors are just poor. Um, the special effects were good, man. I mean, there's the special effects of the the biting and the flesh ripping and all of that business, the actual zombie effects were actually done really well. It was just the acting was really, really, truly dreadful. Uh, which and the writing didn't make it any better. So, generic, you know, post-COVID paranoia, don't have the vaccine. Uh, the vaccine's gonna turn everybody into zombies. Some people want it, some people don't. Um, and everybody ends up getting killed. Well, they we don't actually end up seeing any of this. Other than the opening, we don't see building six anymore, we don't see the government anymore, we only sort of hear them on the radio. Uh, and it's it was poor. I'm sorry. It was poor. I'm therefore gonna score the Barbadan, the silence after, or into the darkness, three out of ten.