Vol.14: Canadian Zombie Trip Conceptually, Jesse Cook went further, he shot an anti-action zombie theme. Indy zombies to be exact. Another end of the world, but this time instead of a handful of survivors more than entertaining heroes. A blind guy with amnesia, and a pregnant girl, a police officer at the word, (not Easter eggs on Fargo Mr. Cook?).
They have to do a very difficult job for their position - to survive. And survival is very, very difficult, because the Canadian wilderness is teeming with voracious zombies, and the virus is rampant, and generates new batches of live cadavers. Good shot. Cinematography is pleasing. Soft cold tones, forest areas, sunset distances. If you do not take into account the wandering dead, you might think that you are watching a dramatic tape about the chase. In a way, though, it is. Since his debut, and before this film, it has been ten years. Jesse Thomas Cook clearly grew up as a director, from a cheap exploitative cannibal movie he moved to an indie wave on a zombie theme. He's proud. Given the fact that the teenage demonstration of the intestines disappeared, and it was replaced by the act of psychological breakdown. Nuff said.
Jesse Cook walked through a satirical horror, made his cannibal debut, and now, his last movie, suddenly, about zombies. And although Cook did not bring anything particularly new to the genre, he simply took the existing experience and realized some touching story in the middle of the zombie apocalypse. He noted that the idea of hopelessness looms in all his films. There are no tough guys or brutal husbands, there are only frightened people with a completely ordinary desire to live, and there are dead people with their despair.
The film asks for a genre of cold, leisurely narration. Once again the Canadian winter, again the sunset, again the winter sun, Cook does not change himself too much in terms of receptions. The main thing is that the frame was beautiful, and in the first place the idea, from the word indie. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Anyway, the film in which there is a lot of everyday drama, and very little zombie atmosphere as we used to see it in dozens of disposable zombie horrors. Cook gave his vision, which again earned a bonus in the director's piggy bank.