Mr. Shankland is a skilled director and his later films are wonderfully complex and engaging; but this early effort of his is essentially a pre-pubescent Zombie movie about a group of kids who become killing machines when they're mysteriously infected with some mysterious "virus." If you enjoy Horror movies that just dance from one scene of unrelenting violence to another for no apparent reason, you may enjoy this. But if you're looking for a film on a par with Shankland's later work in CLAPHAM JUNCTION or NO NIGHT IS TOO LONG, you can skip this apprentice work.