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What do you get when some attractive students stay up too late inside the Large Hadron Collider and aren't told about radiation leaks? Zombies and lots of scary moments inside very long subterranean tunnels seem to be the answer, judging by the preview below for Decay, a film written and directed by actual PhD candidate and …

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  1. Sorry that handle is already taken. Silver badge
    Alert

    They're waiting for you, Gordon...

    ...in the test chamber.

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

      Re: They're waiting for you, Gordon...

      "This is bad. We are BAD PEOPLE! Why did we usher in the GREEN APOCALYPSE??"

    2. NomNomNom

      Re: They're waiting for you, Gordon...

      why do we have to wear these RIDICULOUS ties?

      1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

        Re: They're waiting for you, Gordon...

        "Oh you wanna know why? It's symbolic. The management wants you to know that you are their dog, so they keep you on a leash."

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Great

    Love a good zombie flick. Or a bad one.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Meh

      Just got done watching it, and not trying to slag it... but it is neither epically great, nor shockingly bad.

      It's a bit mediocre, which is really the problem I think. The zombies weren't really scary... they weren't fast or slow... for some reason I had no connection at all with the non-zombie characters and therefore didn't really care one way or the other when they died.

      There are worse ways to spend 75 minutes of course. Overall, I think this is a good effort - especially if it's really a DIY/Shoestring student film as advertised.

  3. Davie Dee

    interesting

    many people say that a lot of the Hollywood actors are as think as mince and there is definitely some evidence of that, if this film is accurate in that the actors are all highly educated that would also suggest that the opposite is true

    So could that mean there is a direct correlation between academic ability and acting ability

    nice idea, but some serious casting flaws

    1. frank ly

      Re: interesting

      Natural talent does come into it but acting is a skill, or craft, that needs to be learned and practiced, with feedback from mentors, peers and audiences. That's why the older and more experienced actors are usually the best ones.

      A high achieving group of physics PhD students have probably not spent much time developing any acting skills they may have.

      1. Davie Dee

        Re: interesting

        absolutely an im not criticising the actors in the film, as you say, they are what they are and without practice it would be hard to improve

        But yes your correct, I shouldn't draw lines where there are none.

        But it is curious that many of the young AAA actors or should I say media celebs, are a bit.... dim!

        1. teebie

          Re: interesting

          "But it is curious that many of the young AAA actors or should I say media celebs, are a bit.... dim!"

          Maybe this is because of the millions of people whose life plan is no more than "do a thing so I will be famous" a few of them actually make it

      2. Dave Bell
        Boffin

        Re: interesting

        There is some almost conventional language in acting, body language of various sorts including facial expression and a part of the craft is in being aware of and in control of that. But how well that gets taught in schools, or in amateur drama I wouldn't care to guess. Film allows more subtlety, because the camera is closer than the audience in a theatre.

        I wouldn't rule out these people doing some acting in the past, and if it's the rather exaggerated stage approach, well, this is a zombie movie. They don't have to be subtle.

      3. Pat 11

        Re: interesting

        "A high achieving group of physics PhD students have probably not spent much time developing any acting skills they may have."

        No, but by the time they make Professor they will have honed them to perfection.

        1. NomNomNom

          Re: interesting

          kids these days aren't taught the proper way of eating brains from a young age so what do you expect. it has nothing to do with drama school but all to do with the dumbing down of traditional zombie subjects

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    Eh, everyone knows that when the inadvertent LHC dimensional rift opens....

    We're going to get shoggoths, or maybe lawyers!!

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
      Mushroom

      Re: Eh, everyone knows that when the inadvertent LHC dimensional rift opens....

      We can handle a few shoggots. [Chomps cigar]. But lawyers ... get me the President on the phone!

      1. Crisp

        Re: Lawyers

        Get me Rex Kramer!

    2. Rattus Rattus

      Re: Eh, everyone knows that when the inadvertent LHC dimensional rift opens....

      "Shoggoths, or maybe lawyers"

      One might need a highly-trained eye to tell the difference.

  5. jake Silver badge

    ::yawns::

    Whatever. Look up "super-8" +SLAC ;-)

    I won't go into "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" ...

  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Nice story, Good quality recording,

    Poor actors

    1. Admiral Duncan

      Re: Nice story, Good quality recording,

      No plot + cheesiness + bad acting = brilliant zombie movie!

    2. BorkedAgain
      Trollface

      Re: Nice story, Good quality recording,

      It's better than your zombie movie. So there.

      (Also, as a bonus, quite unlikely to have the line "The neutrinos are mutating" in it...)

  7. southpacificpom
    Paris Hilton

    Paris

    Why wasn't Paris cast as the head zombie?

    1. Noons
      Joke

      Re: Paris

      Because she's already done a man-eating flick...

      1. Brent Longborough
        Joke

        Paris

        Yeah, but she did eat his *brains*

        1. Paul Crawford Silver badge

          Re: Paris

          Well she ate his little head, and that is where a lot of men appear to keep the controlling brain.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Paris

      Why would she be at CERN?

  8. nuked
    Coat

    "What do you get when some attractive students stay up too late inside the Large Hadron Collider and aren't told about radiation leaks?"

    Less-attractive students.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Mis-direction

    It's all a ploy to ensure that if footage of a real LHC-facilitated incursion comes out, it can be written off as an amateur horror flick.

    I'm not fooled.

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    http://thedailypixel.com/2012/01/29/concern-as-dr-gordon-freeman-appointed-head-of-particle-physics-at-cern/

  11. AceRimmer1980
    Boffin

    Residen

    TeV-il.

    The white one. Er, guys, you're putting it on me back-to-front..guys?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Residen

      "TeV-il."

      I see what you did there... but is TeV short for "TERROR-electronvolts"?

      Also, I'm waiting for the gay porn knockoff version, to be set in the Large Hardon Collider.

  12. Chris G
    Boffin

    It's obvious

    These are the long sought after Higgs Bo-Zonbies!

  13. Alan Watson

    The real inspiration

    http://xkcd.com/564/

  14. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    +1 for the Half Life reference

    Well done sir

  15. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    First zombie seen eating victim

    reminded me of F.E.A.R. intro.

    Similar cut/blur/lighting.

    Nice!

  16. Dr. G. Freeman
    Pint

    Sheesh you take one day off to go Christmas shopping and this happens.

    Oh well, *grabs crowbar*

    <need one these, mouths a bit dry.

  17. Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
    Paris Hilton

    I'm waiting for the grumble flick....

    Well Michael, I play the part of Mona Lott, the laboratory assistant to Dr Ben Over and Dr Hardon who invent a liquid that dissolves clothes that they spill on me and all my clothes fall off and then a micro black hole escapes from the hardon collider and invades my by body and starts it's sucking in everything around me...

    Ohhh but Michael, I'm telling you the plot, it's all done in the best possible taste...

    Cupid Stunt Paris. who else?

    1. NomNomNom

      Re: I'm waiting for the grumble flick....

      has the screen play been written by Patrick Stewart?

  18. heyrick Silver badge

    They seem to think the 480p, when ready, will be ~4GB...what, does this run for 5-6 hours or something?!

    1. Vladimir Plouzhnikov

      720p version is 4,634,399,046 bytes, 1 hour 16 minutes long...

  19. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    "This film has not been authorized or endorsed by CERN" unless it makes a packet then they will want a cut. Otherwise, it will be shunned by the CERN management.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Unless there's some serious product placement going on, then I doubt they'll be making a packet from a free download... Unless it's also a trojan designed to steal our banking info. Oh crap, now I'll have to cancel my download! Woe is me

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      It's Creative Commons licenced

      so I doubt it.

      Now, the rights to make a remake, on the other hand...

  20. Francis Boyle Silver badge

    Nobody expected

    zombies? The way things are I've started to expect zombies every time I go around the corner for a carton of milk.

    Zombies are a little overdone is what I'm saying.

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge

      Re: Nobody expected

      You prefer your Zombies fresh?

  21. Irongut

    Oxymoron

    "What do you get when some attractive students..."

    "Many of the cast and crew are also actual physicists."

    Actual physicists are not attractive.

    Film itself looks pretty good though so I will be downloading. Lack of acting experience is generally a bonus in low budget horror movies. Just watch Night of the Living Dead (or any early Romero movie) for the perfect example.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Alien

      Actual physicists are not attractive?

      They are at undergraduate level, though most of the girls realise at this level that they could get far more in banking or IT than research...

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    1. ssharwood
      Mushroom

      Re: Enter Andrew Loeb....?

      [SPOILER]

      Doesn't Andrew Loeb step on a mine and die?

  23. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    Wow

    I know people doing PhDs and it's not what you'd call a 9-5 punch-card job: good on you guys for finding time and making this!

    Now, the next move is to sell the rights to make a remake to Hollywood for ££$$...

  24. mhenriday
    Meh

    Why couldn't they do a feature film

    about «[s]nake-fondling blonde nude punts Polish coffins» instead ? Or did they wish to avoid infringing upon the Reg copyright ?...

    Henri

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