I'm happy to be able to spend another day with you. And here's another movie about flesh eaters made it to our screens, dear friends. What will our guest tell us today? Is it about people desperate to get out of town while a zombie apocalypse is in full swing? Or maybe people who have locked themselves in a house, church, or shopping mall and are fighting off an army of the living dead? Or maybe the story will tell about a man who slowly but surely turns into a hungry eater of foreign flesh and brains? No, no and no again. Everything is much simpler and therefore much more interesting. The fact is that this film can be characterized approximately as follows - the story after the final credits. After all, we are all used to the fact that after the attack of the living dead, two or three heroes survive and go into the sunset. And in today's film, we're going to talk about the very same survivors.
2038. Nineteen years have passed since the biological weapons bombs were activated and the world plunged into chaos and cannibalism. On the roads and scales of what was once called the proud word - America, there are two. Man and woman. Yes, they certainly have both names and pasts, but do they matter in a world that is slowly but surely dying? No, it doesn't matter. And the only important thing is that the couple in love is not the first year looking for a place that they can call home, they hope to find food, because their stocks are coming to an end, and given how long the zombie apocalypse has thundered, it is pointless to look for products in stores, and of course, the heroes hope to stumble upon if not the community, then other people, so as not to feel like the last people on Earth. And you won’t believe it, but soon the heroes stumble upon an army box full of canned food and a frightened young girl. Does God exist and is not blind to people’s prayers? Maybe it is. That's just after the manna of the heavenly trio of heroes begin to pursue infected and every day the living dead becomes more and more, and the ways to retreat are less and less.
So, what can we say about this painting? Well, first of all, we have an author's film, and if so, then you should not expect from the picture of milk rivers and sour shores, because the budget of the creators of this film was more than modest, and the actors were clearly not professionals, but it is important not this in such films. The important thing is, did the crew put their soul into this film? The answer is, yes, they did. The actors approached their work with all seriousness and they try to play as sincerely as possible, but sometimes it happens that they do not play to their images, but this is not so noticeable, because the main thing is that their acting is an order of magnitude higher than that we could see in modern horror films, and from that the heroes of the picture believe and sympathize with them. After all, you don’t often hear such words about the heroes of horror movies, do you?
What else? And there is a gloomy and oppressive atmosphere, the benefit of the heroes travel through the ruins of the old world while the operator filmes what is happening in grayish tones, adding a pinch of hopelessness to the world in which the heroes live. Yes, and musical accompaniment may not be enough stars from the sky, but it creates an atmosphere.
It’s all good, of course, but there is something in the film that can scare you off, dear viewer. First, the blood in the picture will be minimal and no torn limbs are not expected. Oh, yeah, a zombie apocalypse movie that doesn't show scenes of feeding the living dead. As for me, this is more a plus than a minus of the picture, but our tastes are different. Secondly, despite the oppressive atmosphere, the threat from the living dead does not seem to be something significant because dead people die as well as ordinary people and there will be no tricks like complete dismemberment and a bullet in the head in the film. Yes, it certainly makes you wonder why people lost the war on the living dead if they were so easily defeated, but let’s leave it to the writers. Thirdly, this film falls under the cinema of a conversational genre, rather than a horror story as such. Because most of the time, we're going to listen to stories from the lives of the characters, and what they're going to do and where they're going. Someone may find all this boring, and someone will like such a scenario. So decide for yourself whether all of the above is a minus or still a plus of the picture.
What's the end result? And as a result, we have a rather good author's film about the zombie apocalypse, which suggests a movie like "Battery". Well, if that's what I'm saying, Do you like experimenting with genres? Do you like independent movies? Watch this movie. And if you, dear viewer, aimed at the film in the best traditions of George Romero, it is better to refrain from watching. I wish you good luck and all the best.
5 out of 10