Director: Lowell Dean
Year: 2024
Country: Canada
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie
Plot:
Traveling with his girlfriend, a guy wakes up in a remote town with a strange woman watching over him as he struggles to keep himself alive while a zombie virus rages throughout the countryside, and as they try to help him sort his memory try to hold off the encroaching creatures.
Review:
Overall, this was a solid enough dramatic zombie effort. Among its best aspects is a rather fun storyline that seems geared rather nicely at handling the different elements within this one. The central setup offers a lot of likable factors for exploring the world here with the few bits of news about the ravaged state of the world and the race to get to safety which only results in the fateful c crash that separates him and his girlfriend as he awakes from the incident with amnesia about where she is so everything he discovers about what’s going on works just as well for the viewer. Exploring the abandoned state of the world and slowly coming to understand what’s going on with the series of encounters involving the straggler creatures that are involved and exposing new pieces about his past the more we hang out together with him and the woman taking care of him.
That allows for the film to have the requisite emotional resonance for some solid zombie confrontations. Given a great bit of backstory involving the plant-based virus that spawns the outbreak and getting brief bits about the way the infection spreads which includes physical deformities resembling the body being overtaken by plant-like beings, they have a lot to like here so that the resulting swarming scenes have some impact. Getting the first encounters early on with how they manage to confront the creatures in several effective flashbacks, getting more involved as time goes on with a series of interactions with other travelers that arrive at the house who slowly arrive there and reveal their own agenda. When everything comes together at the end with the different storylines here is a series of impressive resolutions that help to increase the action rather well with everything happening, giving the film some likable factors.
There are some big issues that hold this one down. The biggest drawback with the film is the slack pace that never really provides the kind of explicit zombie action wanted by so many of the genre fans. Relying on the relationship he has with the woman who’s taking care of him and helping him try to regain his memory, the fact that there are only those few encounters with the creatures and leaving only a few situations where the creatures are involved here with these other scenes taking up the rest of the running time. This leaves the film feeling more like a drama, especially with the series of revelations that come about in the final half involving the truth about what’s going on at the expense of the zombies, so viewers might be disappointed with this not going for the kind of material expected here. Otherwise, the cheapness of everything might be the main problem with this one.
Overview: ***/5
A solid if somewhat problematic drama including zombies, this one gets enough to be somewhat likable and engaging even though its main issue also might be somewhat offputting for those it’s trying to appeal to. Give it a shot if you’re curious about it or are fans of drama-heavy modern genre fare but those expecting full-on zombie carnage will be severely disappointed.
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