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When Evil Reigns
SCREENER/APPROX. 92 MINS/2006/AUSTRALIA NOT RATED
SCREENER/APPROX. 92 MINS/2006/AUSTRALIA NOT RATED
Chris (Alix Jackson) and his friends have just finished school and are hanging outside chatting, when a thunder storm slowly makes its way across
the city of Melbourne. Rain begins to pour, and all of sudden, right in front of their school, they hear the sound of car tires screeching and then a
loud crash. A young girl, who had been riding a bike, has just gotten splattered all over the road, and the driver, who gets out of his car in the rain
to see if the girl is still alive, unexpectedly opens the boot of his car, pulls out a sledge hammer and attempts and bash the girl’s head in, putting
her out of misery. Chris and his friends are terrified of what they have just seen, and as they look around, they see a handful of people bleeding,
twitching and dragging their feet, coming towards them. They quickly go back in the school and lock the doors, as one of them tries to grab Chris
through the iron fence door in an attempt to kill him. Frightened and scared, they try to call the police and report the accident they had just
witnessed, however, for some reason there’s no answer at the police station. In the distance they can hear people screaming and crying for help
throughout the city, while the rain still continues to pour down. Chris is soon joined by other students in the hallway who had also heard the car
crash. Chris then explains to them what just happened and they team together to lock down the school for their own safety, or just until they can
figure out what exactly is going on and why people are being so violent. It’s now night time and there are a dozen or so homicidal flesh eating
maniacs outside the school, trying to find a way in so they can bash, kill and eat Chris and his school friends alive. Can they escape the school or
will they be torn apart limb by limb.
Both brothers, Alix and Luke Jackson, teamed together to make this micro low budget film, When Evil Reigns, for $5000. It took them 6 long years
to create this hard hitting, violent slasher film that will shock movie viewers. When Evil Reigns is a movie with unnamed actors and even Alix
Jackson plays the lead role in this film as Chris, his acting skills steal the spotlight, no doubt, and so do his special effects, which I will talk about
soon. The other cast members acting skills aren’t too bad, though I did find myself a little bored. I don't know if it was their acting or the sound
guys fault, cause the from time to time it was hard to hear exactly what they were saying to each other, I kept having to turn up the sound and
down throughout the whole movie. That has to be the biggest downfall with When Evil Reigns, though it’s a good script and an awesome idea for
a movie.
The people outside the school in the rain are kinda like flesh eating zombies but if they bit a chunk out of someone, they didn't become infected at
all. The only way to become infected was if the rain water touched your skin. There was something in the rain that turned humans, minutes later,
into serial flesh eating killers, who didn't feel pain at all and who would stop at nothing to get to you. If these two bothers had a bigger budget
and a tighter script, their movie would be playing in every cinema across the world. Alix also did the special FX in When Evil Reigns, there’s a 30
minute guide where Alix shows you how to do four special FX tricks with cheap household products and have outstanding effects, which I was
blown away by. No offense to Alix and Luke but I have to say I enjoyed watching his teaching skills a bit more than his film, Alix shows you how to
create a slit wrist effect, bullet hole effect, a bite mark effect and a wound that has stitches effect, all these effects take only 15 minutes to do and
when he is finished, they look like something Tom Savini himself had roughly done. Just makes me wanna pick up a camera and create my own
zombie film now, thanks to Alix and his special effects tips of course.
The Jackson brother’s film, When Evil Reigns, is a good first attempt at film making, like I said before if these guys had a bigger budget their film
would be playing cinemas across the world. But they only had a budget of $5000, still they did a fucking awesome job, I think after time and a few
trial and error's these brothers will fully become well known Aussie film makers just like the Spierig brothers who brought us Undead back in 2003.
Keep up the awesome work guys and don't give up what ya doing, personally I’m looking forward to seeing what your next film brings.
the city of Melbourne. Rain begins to pour, and all of sudden, right in front of their school, they hear the sound of car tires screeching and then a
loud crash. A young girl, who had been riding a bike, has just gotten splattered all over the road, and the driver, who gets out of his car in the rain
to see if the girl is still alive, unexpectedly opens the boot of his car, pulls out a sledge hammer and attempts and bash the girl’s head in, putting
her out of misery. Chris and his friends are terrified of what they have just seen, and as they look around, they see a handful of people bleeding,
twitching and dragging their feet, coming towards them. They quickly go back in the school and lock the doors, as one of them tries to grab Chris
through the iron fence door in an attempt to kill him. Frightened and scared, they try to call the police and report the accident they had just
witnessed, however, for some reason there’s no answer at the police station. In the distance they can hear people screaming and crying for help
throughout the city, while the rain still continues to pour down. Chris is soon joined by other students in the hallway who had also heard the car
crash. Chris then explains to them what just happened and they team together to lock down the school for their own safety, or just until they can
figure out what exactly is going on and why people are being so violent. It’s now night time and there are a dozen or so homicidal flesh eating
maniacs outside the school, trying to find a way in so they can bash, kill and eat Chris and his school friends alive. Can they escape the school or
will they be torn apart limb by limb.
Both brothers, Alix and Luke Jackson, teamed together to make this micro low budget film, When Evil Reigns, for $5000. It took them 6 long years
to create this hard hitting, violent slasher film that will shock movie viewers. When Evil Reigns is a movie with unnamed actors and even Alix
Jackson plays the lead role in this film as Chris, his acting skills steal the spotlight, no doubt, and so do his special effects, which I will talk about
soon. The other cast members acting skills aren’t too bad, though I did find myself a little bored. I don't know if it was their acting or the sound
guys fault, cause the from time to time it was hard to hear exactly what they were saying to each other, I kept having to turn up the sound and
down throughout the whole movie. That has to be the biggest downfall with When Evil Reigns, though it’s a good script and an awesome idea for
a movie.
The people outside the school in the rain are kinda like flesh eating zombies but if they bit a chunk out of someone, they didn't become infected at
all. The only way to become infected was if the rain water touched your skin. There was something in the rain that turned humans, minutes later,
into serial flesh eating killers, who didn't feel pain at all and who would stop at nothing to get to you. If these two bothers had a bigger budget
and a tighter script, their movie would be playing in every cinema across the world. Alix also did the special FX in When Evil Reigns, there’s a 30
minute guide where Alix shows you how to do four special FX tricks with cheap household products and have outstanding effects, which I was
blown away by. No offense to Alix and Luke but I have to say I enjoyed watching his teaching skills a bit more than his film, Alix shows you how to
create a slit wrist effect, bullet hole effect, a bite mark effect and a wound that has stitches effect, all these effects take only 15 minutes to do and
when he is finished, they look like something Tom Savini himself had roughly done. Just makes me wanna pick up a camera and create my own
zombie film now, thanks to Alix and his special effects tips of course.
The Jackson brother’s film, When Evil Reigns, is a good first attempt at film making, like I said before if these guys had a bigger budget their film
would be playing cinemas across the world. But they only had a budget of $5000, still they did a fucking awesome job, I think after time and a few
trial and error's these brothers will fully become well known Aussie film makers just like the Spierig brothers who brought us Undead back in 2003.
Keep up the awesome work guys and don't give up what ya doing, personally I’m looking forward to seeing what your next film brings.
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