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Season 1, Episode 6, Aired

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A young woman named Helen wakes up with a hangover to a post-apocalyptic world overrun by zombies.
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  • The whole "tales from the crypt" revival thing looked promising at first. But this (and previous) episodes proves the opposite.

    3.2
    "Bad"
    By d-phrag, Nov 05, 2011
    Absolutely pathetic script, poor acting and the whole zombie cliche - oh My God, who does trust that a chemical could change human's DNA in a mater of hours, so they become zombies? And again, what's wrong with the zombies that they ALWAYS that slow? Surely, there are people out there with a reasonable explanation, but besides the lush curves of Briana Evigan's body, I find this one really painful to watch. Not sure if I will continue to watch this as it shows gradual degradation (er, is that correct to say???) Maybe I'm wrong, since I can't consider myself an expert in horror, but I've expected more suspense and less blood here.moreless

  • Another disappointing installment.

    7.5
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    By jenicecream, Jun 15, 2011
    I was excited to watch this episode after being disappointed by the last few. Unfortunately, I was disappointed yet again.

    I think I could have loved the episode because of the subject (zombies) and the twist ending. I, however, hated the main character. She was pathetic and needy. That dude was just not that into her. The whole party scene was painful to watch. Grow a backbone already. Why did she keep going on and on about how the female friend was the only one who understood her when her male best friend seemed to have a pretty good read on her? She then proceeded to tell the jerk "boyfriend" that he really got her. I don't understand.

    I did appreciate that the audience was given all the clues to the twist without being treated like idiots. In the end, I think that everybody got what they deserved.

    It should have been better than it was.moreless

  • A young woman wakes up to a zombie-filled world.

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    By Ritzik, Oct 11, 2009
    I had high hopes for this episode as it began to unfold. Unfortunately, it unravelled rather than flowed into a great episode. By the time you know what's going on, you're thrust into a small screen version of every zombie film made in the last decade. There's simply nothing new to see here. But, what it does lack in originality, it makes up in most other departments. The zombie hoocaust is very well done and there's a few thrills and chills to be found as you go along.The twist ending is fairly good and you shouldn't see it coming until the reveal. It's nothing Earth-shattering, but still a smirk inducing gotcha.moreless

  • Yet another trash cliche installment. Could have been better.

    5.5
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    By BillieBJones, Aug 23, 2008
    In the very begging the episode seems promissing, there's some suspense, but after some 15 minutes it all starts going downhill fastly. Personally i think the story was very poorly explored. Nothing against the zombies at all, i actually think as for the zombies themselves it worked as a "homage" to the theme, and did pretty good job. But there were so many variable factors in the story and the flashback recourse, and those were underused, as so many other things could have been written. The explanations for the origin of the infection and the way it's transmited and how it applies to the main characters and it's consequences in the end are just so failed and make no sense at all. There could have been so much more to it then the "i'm a drunk heartbroken teen angst zombie" finale.moreless

  • This is by far the worst one so far this season. Is it just me or does Briana Evigan resemble Rachael Leigh Cook

    2.8
    "Terrible"
    By SprinklerHead69, Jul 25, 2008
    I really want this series to survive. The writers are going to have to step up their game for the next one. The series itself is a bit like the Masters of Horrors, or Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes or even The Perversions of Science.
    Granted it is hard to come up with new stories and plot twists. This story was an assemble of already tried ideas. Zombies are hard to make original anyway. Throw in the flashback scenes with the second stoylines of best friend steal boyfriend with the ignored friend that has always loved you and even the little twist at the end was not enough to pull this one out of the firemoreless
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