This is another low budget Canadian film shot mostly in the woods. It is twice as good as "Battle Earth" but then again, twice nothing is still nothing.

The film opens on remote Archer island in the Pacific NW. A small group of US forces are testing out a chemical weapon which causes a person to go into a berserker mode and see the world through a red filter. Some unspecified years later. John Paxton (Douglas Chapman) boards a charter flight that fate demands crashes on said island with expected results.

There is quite the cast of characters on board which made the film enjoyable to a certain degree. Also the metal music added to the production. Clearly this is one of the better low budget productions. The film has character, a zombie-ish plot, minor humor, decent sound track and plot holes , yet at the same time its short 72 minutes seemed like an eternity. The main problem was the lifeless John Paxton character who was secretive about something we already knew. At the same time, the attacking creatures looked like.. well regular humans.

Low end rental.

Parental Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

A plane full of people find themselves stranded on an island with several rage-infected psycho zombies. It's up to rough'n'tumble soldier Lt. John Paxton (a terse and credible performance by Douglas Chapman) to keep everybody alive.

Director Tom Raycove keeps the familiar, but still enjoyable story zipping along at a quick pace, maintains a gritty take-no-prisoners tone throughout, stages the attack scenes with aplomb, and delivers a satisfying serving of splatter. The solid acting by the game no-name cast keeps this movie humming: Kyra Zagorsky as the feisty Carla Frye, Giles Panton as tough take-charge dude Troy Connor, Philip Granger as no-count traitor Col. Donald Magnusson, Christopher Jordan Lee as bumbling fat guy Oscar Truman, Karina Carreck as the sassy Tanya Fox, Katherine Gauthier as the snarky Theresa, Kevin Stark as UFO geek Henry, Curtis Lum as the dorky Chen, and Graeme McComb as the wimpy A. J. A fun little Grade B horror/action flick.

Toxin is not as bad as Flesh Wounds and this is the only good thing I can say about it.

So lets begin: they pretty much covered all the basic moves in a zombie/action movie, and if one is familiarizated with this kind of films, the road will be straight with no bumps ahead. Nothing new whatsoever, just that so tired formula, applied over and over again, that I fail to see how this could even be put in the category "we all have to start somewhere". For 2014, even with a minor budget, this is bad, this is too low to be noticed by anyone and if so, I doubt someone will actually see any good in it.

Therefore my advice, unless you are a huge zombie devourer, look elsewhere. Lately some better zombie movies came out, like: Open grave, The returned, even Cabin fever 3.

Cheers!