A houseful of actors face the Apocalypse. Dumb-but-fun gross-out comedy with a bunch of moderately-famous people playing versions of themselves. Self-indulgent, but everyone is in on the joke and no-one gets harmed. Fine while it’s on.
Tag: apocalypse
World War Z (2013, dir. Marc Forster)
A UN investigator tracks a zombie virus to its source. The z-movie as big-budget spectacular; not quite action-adventure, not quite horror. A series of linked set-pieces, and not bad, though not for fans demanding a faithful adaptation of its source novel.
Stake Land (2010, dir. Jim Mickle)
A teen and a grizzled hunter journey across a post-vampire-apocalypse America. An episodic but imaginative spin on the genre, wth plenty of ideas, some clever spins on old tropes, and a fun central performance.
Legion (2010, dir. Scott Stewart)
An apocalyptic siege movie with a complicated backstory that starts off well enough, but doesn’t have its own story to tell once the Terminator-with-angels premise wears off. Some freaky moments, tho.
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