Director: Doug Roos
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Zombie
Plot:
In the aftermath of a worldwide plague, a lone man roams the woods trying to rid the world of the zombie plague that’s taken over the world while trying to safeguard the only other survivor he can find, who’s looking to take heed over the zombies so he can use them in his plans for world domination.
Review:
For the most part, this was a rather strong and effective indie zombie effort. One of the better factors here is the rather simplistic storyline that provides a fine way of going about bringing a low-budget universe to light. The simple premise, taking the well-established trope of a worldwide zombie apocalypse that has overtaken the world and rendered millions into ravenous zombies and then setting the action after that point with the lone warrior trying to go through what little remains of humanity, trying to survive, makes for a solid enough starting point. This runs through a lot of cliched beats in doing so, from the hopeful scientist wanting to restore order to where it was earlier, the lone warrior’s tragic past that makes him hesitant to trust anyone else, and the desire of the figure controlling the zombies to try keeping them in control so that the ensuing war is fought between them, but that still allows for the kind of engaging setup using these familiar points.
That leads into the solid zombie encounters that take place throughout here, keeping this filled with great makeup on the kind of budget here where it all looks incredibly impressive for what’s going on. The gnarled, twisted look featured here, involving the gruesome-looking zombies trying to grab whoever else is left and being chopped to pieces or shot up while trying to get everything prepared, leaves this with the kind of fun, action-packed encounters, with the two going around trying to kill whoever they can with swords or guns. While this is quite fun, there’s not much outside of those factors involved in anything here due to the dreary, plodding story that renders everything as a pointless rehash of what came before. They do pretty much the same thing in between killing zombies, and it never really resolves anything in the finale anyway either, keeping this one quite one-note overall, and like the low-budget limitations, are what keep this one down.
Overview: ***/5
A rather fun one-note zombie effort, there’s a lot to like here for this kind of genre effort, even though some of the issues here won’t be completely damaging to some, even though they’re present. Viewers with an appreciation for this kind of indie genre effort, who are fans of this style of indie fare in general, or who are curious zombie film aficionados, will have a lot to like here, while most others should heed caution.
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