Devil's Playground

2010

Action / Horror

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 22%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 22% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.1/10 10 5321 5.3K

mercenary zombie apocalypse

Plot summary

As the world succumbs to a zombie apocalypse, Cole - a hardened mercenary - is chasing the one person who can provide a cure. Not only to the plague but to Cole's own incumbent destiny.

Director

Mark McQueen Photo
Mark McQueen

Top cast

Dean Forster Photo
Dean Forster as Infected Johnson
Jaime Murray Photo
Jaime Murray as Lavinia
Sean Pertwee Photo
Sean Pertwee as Rob
Craig Fairbrass Photo
Craig Fairbrass as Cole
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
855.07 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1
1.71 GB
1920*800
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by krachtm 6 / 10

Parkour zombies

The plot: After a new, experimental drug causes people to turn into acrobatic zombies, a brooding bruiser searches for the one person who can provide a cure.Devil's Playground is a derivative and generic zombie movie, but I still enjoyed it. It's basically a ridiculous excuse to show lots of gore SFX and stunt work, the dialogue and acting are often cheesy, and it's undeniably a ripoff of modern "fast zombie" movies (especially 28 Days Later), but if you're in the mood for a B movie, this will satisfy you. If you're expecting it to be original (or even fast-paced), you're sure to be disappointed. It seems assembled from scenes of other zombie movies, but the scenes are competently directed, even if the dialogue and acting are occasionally a bit cheesy. It doesn't really have anything insightful or original to say, but it does manage to throw in lots of impressive stunts. If you're looking for a movie about flesh-eating acrobats, I think you'd have a difficult time finding a better one than this.It's difficult to recommend this movie, but undemanding genre fans may enjoy it, despite the flaws. It's worth a view if you don't need anything better than a moody atmosphere, some B movie actors, and a simple plot. It's no classic, but it's a cut above the typical direct-to-video zombie movies that I've been watching lately.
Reviewed by mj68538 6 / 10

Perfectly adequate if a little unexciting. A bit like stew.

I've put down 'may contain spoilers' but you'd be hard pushed to find a spoiler for this film since almost everything in it was borrowed from one zombie apocalypse film or another.Take a pinch Resident Evil's Umbrella Corps, add a small portion of Resident Evil's Alice and garnish with a pinch of Omega Man for Cole, add a heaped teaspoonful of generic British actors / film locations and a healthy dollop of 28 days later for the infected/zombies. Place in a medium cooking plot, and allow to simmer for 92 minutes. Finally garnish with a sprig of Jaime Murray typecast as yet another manipulative woman, and you have the perfect zombie stew.Having said all that, it did have some interesting bits in it, e.g. Fairbrass' Cole totally stole the show, leaving Danny Dyer's character as little more than a minor zombie-fodder character with an above average number of lines, and in so doing made the film oddly watchable. Also the idea of adding in a couple of conniving 'outsiders' added to the film's complexity (it needed it). Both of these bits could have taken the film to a whole new level if it weren't for face-palm-inducing plot holes, e.g. Cole just happening to stumble across the one person he was looking for in the middle of the zombie-infested green belt, and the way the two 'evil' characters somehow persuaded the heroine they were more trustworthy than her best friend?!So overall, some interesting ingredients lost in a bland mix of stock zombie-movie moments. It'll fill up a hole if you're hungry for a zombie movie and don't want to challenge your tastebuds too much...
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