It feels like a school project. Extremely low budget. Poor special effects. Plenty of holes in this. Many are much too obvious to just ignore. House Plants won't live for 5 years without being watered lol! Lawns don't mow themselves. Shrubs and trees don't trim and shape themselves. Gardens would be completely overgrown. Pools don't stay clean without electricity and a filter and chemicals. Also, after 5 years, a pool in the desert would be empty due to evaporation. Houses would fall into disrepair and gather heavy amounts of dust after 5 years being empty. Especially in the desert.

I saw no wild animals. After 5 years with no people or very little people, animals and nature would move back into the cities and towns. Pavement and sidewalks and patios would be overgrown.

The stalkers can track them with a sound magnifier, but they don't have a heat sensor to track them from the helicopter or vans. The sound magnifier doesn't pick up their talking to each other, or cooking or bathing or scavenging, or riding a bike, or hearing them shoot other people, but it picks up a tiny music box from a mile away.

They literally ride a bike and walk around in plain sight, when they are supposed to be being careful not to get caught or heard by the stalkers who are patrolling every street and searching every house.

Most people don't have Everclear just stocked up in their homes. It's 190 proof" means 95% Alcohol by volume, the remainder 5% comprised of water. And there were 2, brand new 60 pounders? Lol! I could see being stocked up on Vodka, but Everclear? Oops I could be wrong! I was just informed that Everclear was the liquor of choice during our real pandemic. Who knew?

After Ellie shoots (She's suddenly an excellent marksman, and had never even shot a gun before, or been shown how.), and kills the 2 stalkers to save Quin, the next 3 stalkers enter the field and see 2 dead co-workers lying there and they slowly and casually walk over to them? Shouldn't they be running with tranq guns drawn? And once at the spot, wouldn't they follow the drag marks into the bush and quickly try and find the killer(s)? Especially when they know how slow they'd be moving. One is deadweight due to the tranquilizer she was shot with, and is literally being dragged by the other girl. But they don't even glance in that direction.

Three stalkers take a pile of shots at them with the tranq guns but miss almost every shot. Yet they are apparently government employees. Most likely military who are trained marksmen.

Once the Stalkers abduct Ellie, Quin outruns the van while running through sand, rock and brambles all uphill and ends up in front of it back on the highway. Bizarre! At least Quin attempted to make it look like she was running fast. Still much too slow to outrun a vehicle travelling on the highway. When Ellie ran, it was like watching a person run in slow motion. Painful and kind of funny.

When Quin gets away and ends up in front of the van, all of a sudden she's a super trained marksman too. She kills all three and does a backhanded second shot at one of them for good measure, while not looking. Was humorous, and kind of cool haha!

There are plenty more holes that I could pick apart until there's nothing left. After saying that, I actually enjoyed this film. Ya I'm one of those. I can enjoy some of the worst movies. I find most of them humorous, and sometimes there's other great things that balance out the negatives.

Thankfully, the two young lead girls were actually not too bad in the acting department. They're new to acting and I thought they did a good job. The more films they're in, the better they will be. Giving this a 5, mostly to balance out the 1's, and because there were quite a few good qualities with the bad.

I saw this last year and dismissed it as too simplistic and poorly made. I watched it again tonight and while those opinions are still valid, I think the movie is fairly well made for an amateur project.

LOCATION. Other reviews point out some of the obvious flaws such as mowed lawns but that's a minor point. We see mowed lawns and flower beds in major post-apocalyptic movies and TV shows let alone an amateur production. We can finds scenes like that all through TWD. We can't ignore the reality that these type of shows are filmed in the real world with streets or houses blocked off for filming for only a day or two. Having said that I did find that the film makers were able to portray communities that appeared to be empty. Many movies do that only at night or early morning when they can get access to the streets but I felt this movie portrayed that emptiness in the middle of the day which is unusual.

PANDEMIC. The effect of the virus on people did seem a little extreme with the red skin and holes. You'd think people would die long before that but that is not a major issue in this movie. Again some reviews are saying that bodies are not decomposed after five years yet clearly some adults are still alive. Not only those adults hunting the kids but we see at least two adults in the end stages of the pandemic. So while the core of the pandemic might have been five years ago, some adults are still living and dying so not all would be decomposed. Also the pandemic is just the reason to set the story up. There was a feeling that they might have wanted to take that story in a different direction with the killing of the infected male but they never did.

CHARACTERS. Some reviews complain that Ellie is completely unprepared for this world. That's correct but that is what they show us. She still lives at home. She goes to her local dance hall. She has stayed in her own neighbourhood. She's buried her family in the backyard and we don't know how long ago they died. She might have been with some her family only up to months before we meet her. Yet she is able to forage for herself and can make choices when she needs to like killing the infected woman. One day she bikes over to the dance hall again and is then chased away so does go out unprepared. From her reaction I think we can assume this is her first time encountering the men in white.

The Quinn character is interesting as she is very practical and yet we could argue that knowing of the men in white, she could have been better prepared. Have "bug out" bags ready and placed in various locations. Having to go to the hardware store to get supplies when she had upwards of 5 years to gather that altogether. Again something that we see in more main stream movies as well.

The Men in White are neutral but also don't make any sense. Any teen who is still free and surviving on their own will likely have one or more weapons. All they needed was to have a team killed by teens and they would be a more military, well-guarded force. Not a bunch of guys with dart guns. We saw what happened to some of them.

ACTING. The acting isn't bad. Eve James as Eliie is actually better at the start of the movie when she is on her own. Kannon Smith as Quinn has a slightly more rounded character and plays it OK. I found I was interested in her character. Both are young novice actors so let's see how their careers might continue on.

LIGHTING. I also appreciated the fact that the lighting was bright and the filming very clear. Even the night scenes. Far more crisp than some better well-financed movies and TV shows.

BAD ELEMENTS. There were bad elements but so many are common in this genre.

*Grass and flower beds as mentioned above.

*Where are adults getting fuel 5 years later?

*Why are they not driving more off-road style vehicles?

*Disease make-up too extreme.

*Foolish things like there being cannibals. Really? There would still be enough canned food for years. You have access to thousands of guns (but you only have pistols?) and since there was no reference to the virus affecting other mammals or birds so you'd have an ever increasing wildlife population let alone the hundreds of thousands of all the various livestock still around.

All of these minor complaints can be found is so many other movies and TV shows.

In the end this is a low-budget movie, fairly slow, about a developing teen Lesbian relationship. With the subplot of youth against adults. Go into it as an amateur production and you'll find it worth your 80 minutes.

It is a shame that this movie went straight to YouTube, it never really got a fair go. I hope that at the least it spotlighted the actors.

It is a low budget production, the fact that it was released in 2022 and on YouTube before 2023 says a lot.

Too many people are judging this production harshly, maybe it's the soft lesbian feel between our heroes or maybe people expect big budget movies for free.

Honestly, it's not that bad, watch it and judge for yourself.

I have seen far worse in low budget films, at least the acting and direction were solid as was the sound effects and music score. Watch it for what it is, not what it could have been with CGI and a few million dollars more.