The Dustwalker

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I've been around IMDB long enough to realize that some people just seem to love to leave crappy comments for movies. not every film can be the "worst" ever made. i mean, i'll leave "santa claus and the ice cream bunny" to fill that spot for me. this film is slow and creepy. the acting is no better or worse than any other independent horror movie, but the story stuck with me after it was over. that's the sign of a good scary story, told well. a small dying outback town has a visitor from far away, and the townspeople are being systematically taken over by a parasitic alien lifeform. we're just as in the dark as the unaffected residents who don't understand what's going on. the scenery is gorgeous and it reminded me of another sci-fi story i read a long time ago, "stinger" by robert mccammon. another story of a desert community terrorized by aliens.

Not a bad film although some parts didn't make sense and the action was too slow in places. There are some great views of the Australian outback which added to the mood of the isolated environment. The CGI was surprisingly amazing, particularly for a low budget film. Could have been much more with more inventive and better executed action. 5/10 for good intentions

This is not fake review. This movie did a decent job at keeping me entertained from start to finish. I am not a professional reviewer. A sleepy little town out in the dessert has residents falling ill. Unable to figure it out, they do what we would do. Just see who is alive and gather them up. Then try and figure out what is going on. They learn along the way, they finally encounter some help. It's not a blockbuster Aliens vs Predator movie. So if you are looking for blood, guts and horror it's not here. This was just an enjoyable movie to watch for me with a nice plot twist in the end. I credit them since it was original and not some horrible remake of some of our classics. It's just slower paced and I'm not sorry I watched it. I liked it. I write some reviews because I watch stuff and hate seeing all the fake reports where they label movies a 10 10 10! All the time only to be a 2. I gave this one an 8 because of it's originality. They all did a fine job, the acting and dialogue. If you want a movie to kick back and watch leisurely, this is for you.

How could I do this to myself? How could I allow myself to watch a movie this bad? Is this a manifestation of a deep-rooted self-loathing that I have not addressed? I am almost half a century old, and I have seen a LOT of movies in my lifetime, but this was THE #1 WORST movie I have ever watched to the end. The acting is so horrible that it seems the characters themselves don't even like this movie...and they're the ones in it! Have any of them ever had acting lessons? I am convinced the producer just picked random people while walking through the grocery store one day and asked them to play these parts, and they said "Sure, why not." The plot is nonsensical and incomplete. It's like someone just taped all the scenes together with Duck Tape and forced it to be a movie against its will. This movie is so bad that it is protesting against itself. It doesn't even want to be a movie. It feels mistreated and abused, and it is still harboring anger and resentment against the producers and studio for forcing it to be a movie. It never even wanted to be made, but they made it anyway, and now this movie is ashamed of what it has become. It knows it's not its own fault, but yet it still feels guilty and dirty for becoming a movie, and being seen by actual people. It's just that bad. So bad, in fact, that the movie itself has become depressed and traumatized, and is now a troubled film with lots of baggage to work through. I hope no one ever does this to another film. I hope no one ever again picks random people from a Wal-Mart parking lot, shoves a script into their hands, and then records their lines on film 3hrs later. I hope no one ever again writes a screenplay while under sedation lying on the operating table waiting for surgery. I hope my eyes and brain forgive me for watching the entire 90+ minutes of the abomination. I honestly meant well. I thought it would get better. I thought there would be some big twist, reveal, or climax that made the initial mind-numbing torture of watching the film a fair and reasonable price to pay, but alas, there was not. I have violated myself by watching Dust Walker, and I hope I can live long enough to forgive myself for this. But one thing is for sure, I will never do that to myself again, because I love myself too much. And for everyone reading this review, my hope for you is that you will love yourself enough to not watch this film. Skip it, if not for yourself, then skip it for your children, and for your children's children. Why add more embarrassment and shame to this movie's shattered self-image. It already feels horrible for being what it is. Please do the right thing...and never, ever watch it. I beg you.

You're better off reading the dictionary then watching this movie

This is a small film, but it is still engaging. Reminded me of The Crazies but only set in a small Australian town and the source of the madness appears to be alien in origin. This has resemblance to a zombie film but more of 28 Days Later than Romero. Different, not a "great" film, but yet I found the main characters engaging. Not original and I predicted the ending fairly fast, but nonetheless I enjoyed watching this.

Not the worst I've seen, and that seems to be the best thing I can say about it. It's a low budget film, so I can deal with bad special FX's. But the acting was bad, and characters were unbelievable. The story itself wasn't too bad, with a better director it might have succeeded. A writer should not direct their own work, especially amatuers. It was very slow, all the way through. Not really worth a watch.

My wife and I found this movie on Hulu and watched the trailer - looked like a low-stakes horror film and it was rated 4 stars on IMDB. We decided to watch it, knowing it was probably not going to be all that thrilling. We were even more disappointed than we thought. Dialogue: I would say the biggest disappointment of them all was the dialogue. It was written the way a bad book writes exclamations. I think the Doc actually said, "Incredible!" at the beginning of a scene. People used nonsense phrases and ignored what others said for the sake of moving the story along. It was both hard-to-follow and difficult to understand. Plot: This movie made very little sense. We feel like the "big twist" at the end was both poorly explained and quickly ignored as the movie tried to end on a feel-good moment. The movie is basically, "What if that fungus that kills ants worked on people?" It jumps from scene-to-scene with no context, and lines that seem incredibly important one moment are completely ignored in the next. Basically, it was sloppy. Full of plots holes and unanswered questions. Acting: The acting was alright, it's not their fault they had to read a terrible script. The zombies themselves all made weird faces as if their instructions were, "Look like you smelled something bad and are mad about it." Graphics: The CGI whenever a zombie-person roared was just - bad. Left for Dead on the PS3 bad. The monster at the end was fine, but unexciting. The end of the movie just left us with a ton of questions - Did the alien accomplish the thing he was supposed to do? What are they going to do about all the dead animals they still have laying around? Do the people know the monster is a protector? Why would they continue to study a thing that was supposed to be destroyed? How did that alien-bug fly a spaceship? How was the alien able to create that massive dust wall? Magic? Are there more bugs currently infected like the pill-bug that infected the blonde girl? Is the disease actually gone? What happened to the grandma, the alien's spaceship, the first teenage girl, the teenage kids' dog, Frank, and Dean's baby? If we got any of these plots holes wrong, apologies, but we're not going to watch it again to figure them out.

The worst Australian film I have ever seen .. It is not worth watching and not worth talking about. Waste of time is nothing more