TADFF XVI Review: DAY ZERO, Zombies Run Amuck In Brandon Vera’s Debut Showstopper
Filipino American former/first-ever ONE Heavyweight Champion Brandon Vera’s career turn toward acting in the last several years has made a few notable strides. Erik Matti’s Anne Curtis-starrer, BuyBust, certainly had its highs with Vera sharing the mantle and pulling more than his weight, enough to now proffer him up to action fans in a perspective turn for a lead role that now brings us his newest venture into action-horror with The Ghosting director Joey De Guzman’s latest, Day Zero. It’s been eight years since ex-soldier Emon (Vera) was arrested and incarcerated for getting into a deadly brawl. With his parole coming up, the first and only priority is to stay out of trouble, especially if it means he gets to reunite with his wife Sheryl (Mary Jean Lastimosa), and meet his hearing-impaired daughter, Jane (Freya Fury Montierro), as a free man. Despite this, however, and aside from uncouth inmates looking […]
