Notable Cast: Nana
Gouvea, Tom Sizemore, Eric Roberts, Jonny Beauchamp, Vincent Pastore, Chuck
Zito, Jeremy Fernandez, J.W. Cortes, Brett Azar, Rich Graff, David Gere, Kelly
Rae LeGault
Often times, it’s the low budget films that present the
biggest surprises for cinephiles willing to look beyond budgetary constraints.
This is where Black Wake falls in
the grander scheme of things. On the surface, the film suffers from its
budgetary limits often trying to push them in ambitious ways and that creates a
rift between the concept and the execution. However, if one is willing to look
beyond some of the sporadic performances and spotty narrative shifts, Black Wake offers an intriguing blend
of genres that lingered with me long after the credits rolled. For this story,
the film attempts to blend the traditional zombie apocalypse with a science
fiction/found footage approach and then enrobes the entire thing with a
Lovecraftian sense of dread and otherworldliness that gives it a fun concept.
The results might ultimately be mixed, but the dynamics are there and heartfelt
conceptual approach carries it through many of its pitfalls.