And some more movies...

'Alien: Romulus' deserved to have a post all to itself but I have been watching other movies over the last few days. This is a quick post where I can get them all in one place and say a little bit about them all. You know, like all the other movie posts here ;o)

Here goes...

'Final Days' (2020)

As the world crumbles outside, Aidan barricades himself inside his flat. With the infected at his door, Aidan finds that it's the loneliness that is the greatest threat to his sanity. Until one day, he looks out of his window to see a fellow survivor in the flat opposite...

'Final Days' has been sat in my queue for far too long so the other day, I took the plunge and gave it a watch. It's not a bad movie, a little lightweight and straightforward but tense in all the right places and an interesting study in loneliness. What I really got the most out of though was taking the time to listen to what the infected were screaming as they did their thing, it added an interesting slant to the whole 'infected thing'. I don't know that I'll watch it again any time soon but I'm glad I finally gave it a go.

'After the End' (2017)

A 17 year old doomsday prepper is proved right when a lethal disease brings the world to his knees. The only thing he never prepared for was spending so much time on his own. And he certainly never planned on being caught in the middle of a fight between a young woman and three men out for revenge...

And here's how you don't do a film about loneliness in the post-apocalypse... You don't drag out the loneliness theme and when there's hardly any film left, suddenly decide that you need to tell some story to make up for it. At least that's what it felt like from where I was sat. 'After the End' was beautifully shot but really could have learned a lesson or two from 'Final Days' about telling the actual story. Oh well, at least it was nice to look at in the meantime.

'Herd' (2023)

A couple trying to save their marriage find themselves caught in the middle between warring militia and encroaching zombies. 

Now this was more like it. 'Herd' is a real slow burner but there is loads to get your head round and the movie really plays to the whole 'humanity's worst enemy is itself' theme, which is key to any good zombie movie. 'Herd' doesn't do anything particularly new but what it does is done very well and it was a movies that I found very easy to get into and stick with.

'Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead' (2014)

A mechanic must battle through hordes of the undead to rescue his kidnapped sister, only to find that she is not as helpless as he thought...

I haven't watched 'Wyrmwood' for years but after watching those other films, I was after a zombie movie that was a little bit wild and I knew that 'Wyrmwood' fits the bill on that score. It still does, 'Wyrmwood' doesn't take itself seriously at all and as such, is the only film I know of that can get away with cars fuelled by flammable zombie breath. And that's before you get to the rest of it which is just as crazy, in a good way. I really need to watch 'Wyrmwood: Apocalypse' now :o)

I also found a bit of time to rewatch 'Bite' but I posted about that a while ago so won't go into it again. Click Here if you fancy reading the review.