You know, when someone introduces a short film to me by calling it “Left 3 Dead”, I start to worry.  I never much liked the Left 4 Dead series to begin with (not even a TRACE of Romero principles in there, and the zombies keep respawning, which is a joke.), so someone trying to emulate it always puts me on edge.

Flux operates almost like Stephen King’s Cell, with a signal driving people insane–or most people, anyway–and then they run around trying to kill everything in sight.  The difference here, of course, is that this is nowhere near as fleshed out as a Stephen King work would be.

But as short films go, it’s actually pretty fairly well done–they’ve packed a nice little twist ending in here which is pretty rare as far as that goes.  And the plot is at least mostly fleshed out.  So, yes, Flux is a solidly not bad title that you’ll likely enjoy should you take seven odd minutes to watch it.

The Screenhead Ten Scale hands this one a six out of ten for being solid if unimpressive, and well done if not overly fun.