Meat diet Oh, those zombies! How much has been said about them, how much has been written! Since the 60s of the twentieth century, zombies have become an integral part of film culture, gradually moving into the popular mainstream like the AMC zombie drama The Walking Dead. Most of the pictures shot on this dead topic were about the forces awakening the dead, about the terrible viruses that mow down most of the world’s population, but the fallen cannot remain dead, they direct their disfigured bodies in search of the survivors, their brains, warmth, love and place under the sun. In general, there were many variations on the topic, but they came down to the same thing.
However, the picture of the British Andrew Parkinson “Deathly Hunger”, is not quite about this – it is about how a happy family man, a scientist with a capital letter, an angel in human form, after a zombie attack begins to undergo inexplicable metamorphosis, taking him further away from the world of people and immersing him in the world of carnivorous zombies. Oh, if only! In fact, the film is about a dull guy who sits at home for about an hour and a half of screen time and looks at the ceiling, from idleness covered with acne and goes to the forefathers.
And seriously, Parkinson decided to stand out by shooting a drama about zombies, in the spirit of thinking zombies are also people, and at first glance it was really something new, a look from the outside, without running in fear, without the end of the world. The problem was that zombies had been populating screens for thirty years, and if the idea didn’t come for granted, there must have been a reason. One touch, and the picture, like a house of cards, crumbles. Zombies have always been perceived as something dead and returned to the world of the living, devoid of all feelings and emotions, and governed only by instincts. In the “death hunger” the main character after the bite continues to live quietly, and only temporary bouts of hunger prompt him to “hunt”, and it is not clear why he did not like a half-roasted steak with blood, why he needs living flesh? That's probably the diet!
Sometimes it seems that the ideal slogan for the picture would be the expression “better not to ask questions!”, because in fact, even the name is not clear – why zombies? because the whole picture the hero is generally alive, and bouts of cannibalism – well, this can happen to everyone. And the main character for the whole film never tried to find out what is happening to him - it's not a cold that will eventually pass! It’s also not clear where these strange zombie people came from, and what’s the difference? Where there are several cases there is a whole epidemic, but no, there is not a word about it either. So we come to the synopsis of the film - it is not clear who is going on, but he is very sad, because it is a drama ... about a zombie ... who is a man. It doesn't make sense, and it doesn't appear throughout the film. And you wonder how the picture is given as the winner of the award for best independent film at the festival of science fiction films held in Manchester.
The plot was not the main problem, because in fact, if you close your eyes to all the inconsistencies of the script, then there should have been a human struggle with something beyond his control, and the chronicles of pain in the title hint that it will be so. But here's the blunder again. To do this, you need to create a voluminous and interesting character, show his life, show that he has something to lose, tell why, and so on. But since the actors in the film apparently were not professionals, they could not show any feelings or emotions. And the hero emerged from a vacuum, like a man without a past, and it's not clear where the interest in his future would come from.
Throughout the film, the authors tried to show that the character is kind of bad, but all that was presented in practice is only indistinct convulsions and endless dullness. And of course, there were no five stages of accepting the inevitable in the picture, but at least banal malice! Absolutely emotionless film, and pity for the hero could only arise because of the appearance of social phobia with experience.
Here's the movie "Deadly Hunger," boring, weird and stupid. The film came out of nowhere and went nowhere.
