{"id":30417,"date":"2022-08-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30417"},"modified":"2022-08-29T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T11:14:11","slug":"it-stains-the-sands-red-2016-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30417","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It Stains the Sands Red&#8221; (2016) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z082922zview_itstainsthesandsred.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"753\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>It Stains the Sands Red <\/strong><\/em>(2016)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Colin Minihan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by:\u00a0 <strong>Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger<\/strong> and <strong>Merwin Mondesir<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0<em> It NEVER rests. It NEVER sleeps. It NEVER stops.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A zombie apocalypse has just started.\u00a0 Molly (Allen) and her boyfriend, Nick (Mondesir) have left Vegas and are driving to a remote desert airfield where friends are meeting to fly to a safe location.\u00a0 When their car becomes disabled and a zombie kills her boyfriend, Molly has no choice but to attempt to walk across the desert to the airfield still miles away&#8230; with the zombie in slow pursuit!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>It Stains the Sands Red<\/em> takes an interesting premise and through dumb \/ illogical choices of Molly (and the screenwriters), the film becomes less scary and more irritating.\u00a0 The idea of a zombie chasing you through an area where there are few places to hide, little in the way of weapons and a climate that will wear you down, while the zombie never tires, never sleeps and has no need for food or water is a good one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Still it would be hard to sustain a feature film where a zombie follows a person for 90 minutes.\u00a0 To their credit, Minihan and Ortiz add things\/people to the mix.\u00a0 Where the film goes south (for me) is when Molly begins to talk to the zombie and it responds.\u00a0 C&#8217;mon folks!\u00a0 Zombies are mindless eating machines.\u00a0 They don&#8217;t think, they don&#8217;t listen and they don&#8217;t respond to commands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">It Stains the Sands Red<\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0earns 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z082922zview_itstainsthesandsred2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It Stains the Sands Red (2016) Director: Colin Minihan Screenplay by:\u00a0 Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz Starring: Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30418,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30417\/revisions\/30418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}