This is an extremely good example of a film deliberately being rebranded because of the 2012 craze. It is, in fact, a perfectly decent shoe-string budget zombie film, originally Zone Of The Dead, that takes place in Serbia and involves Interpol agents attempting to move an ex CIA spook type, when all of a sudden everyone finds themselves surrounded by slow moving (or in some cases not so slow moving) grunting people who do not respond to commands or questions. Of course, they are zombies...but only the spook knows what they really are.
I'm actually kind of surprised that no one made a serious pitch to actually make a 2012 zombie film. When watching this for the first time, anyone expecting any 2012 tie in would understandably be confused. There is some mumbo-jumbo about a "day" and a "prophecy," but these are presented as Serbian Church teachings that are only barely mentioned. So, someone, somewhere, heard these, and thought, "hey he said "prophecy" once: let's put this on television as a 2012 thing---totally makes sense!." As I mentioned, as a zombie flick, it's really not bad. It's big claim to zombie fame is that it stars Ken Foree, who is really well known amongst us horror fans as a main character in Romero's Dawn Of The Dead (and as a cameo in the 2004 remake), and lately of Rob Zombie films.
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