Also watched – free via Amazon Prime – the recent direct-to-streaming zombie flick The Night Eats the World. Gave it a shot because it has a decent title and its set in Paris… which is relatively rare for a horror flick.
So it seems our young (American) hero wants his stuff back from his girlfriend after a breakup so he visits her apartment in Paris where she’s having a techno disco rave dance party. Fed up with getting no attention, he locks himself in a bedroom to wait for the party to end and falls asleep. He wakes up in the morning having slept through the usual Zombie Apocalypse. Everyone at the party is missing, blood splatters the walls, and all of Paris seems emptied out. A lot can happen in an eight hour sleep…
Our hero investigates the apartment building and finds a handful of zombies he locks up. He then finds he has plenty of food and water to wait for… rescue? Someone to show? I dunno what his goal was… but he basically just hangs out and gets bored because there’s really nothing to do in the apocalypse after you are safe. He spends his time with a drum kit, a paintball gun, and the old man zombie trapped in the lift.
The movie seems to want to say something about being bored… and, hey, the main character was indeed bored. But that’s about it. There are zombies but they are mainly outside and too dumb to break in and the hero has everything he needs so why bother escaping? This means there’s about an hour of time to fill before anything of note happens. That’s a long tedious hour and if the movie is trying to make a point about boredom, it certainly succeeded. I was, indeed, quite bored.
One positive note… the zombies are your twitchy, fast variety but they are also very quiet. They don’t moan and groan or snarl or growl… about the only sound they make are light tapping on walls and maybe some teeth grinding. It’s actually kind of creepy, to the movie’s surprising credit. Doesn’t do much with that but at least it’s different.
No point in seeing this unless you are a zombie movie completionist. I doubt you are and, if you are, there’s plenty other zombie flicks to catch before this one.
Score: 64