P. Thorpe Christiansen (writer143) I love a good, deep movie filled with symbolism and thought provoking scenes. But when it comes to horror flicks, I want to leave my intellect behind and just simply get creeped out. This is an unusual zombie movie. It is not scary, or even creepy. This movie is more about survival and loneliness than battling the undead. Enter Sam. He goes to his former girlfriend's apartment to pick up his things. After some awkward conversation amidst some overly loud music and a crowd of party guests, his former girlfriend sends him down the hall to the office for his things. You can feel Sam's uneasiness with the people and the noise. Avoiding the loud crowd, he sits in the office and finally falls asleep. When he wakes up, the world, as he knows it is gone, replaced by flesh-eating zombies. We never know how or why.This is the story of his survival, alone, isolated and trapped, in an apartment building in Paris. The first part of the movie was interesting as he searches the building, marking off apartments that harbor undead residents. Going into the various apartments, he begins gathering food in tote bags like a doomsday shopping trip. What's missing here? A couple of things. We don't know Sam, and very little happens in the movie to really clue us in as to who he is, and what makes him tick. We get glimpses but nothing concrete to make us care about him and hope for his survival. The second thing missing is zombie interaction. This is less of a horror movie and more of a psychological study on being isolated and alone, and the effect it has on one's mind. If you're looking for a movie that makes you think, with a side of zombies, this might do the trick. There is definitely a lot to think about here.

ajbarm Perhaps the avengers franchise and other similar blockbuster have actually hurt cinema far beyond i had expected. In those types of movies you don't really need any character development, maybe somewhat of a basic character arc, but nothing as deep as in this movie. This movie fell far more realistic than most movies with the zombie apocalypse theme that i remember having seen (i've seen 28 days, 28 weeks, world war z, all the dead romero movies and a few more i could barely care to count (besides the comedic ones like return of the living dead and shaun of the dead which i actually like)). It doesn't rely on a massive landscape to be successful, this relies on character development, a character study of someone that you can maybe identify with or you know someone that can be similar to him and that's how it draws you in. You begin to know how this character feels and what he is thinking through the course of his actions, there isn't even that much dialogue in it and it helps make it even more realistic if you were following someone in the same situation. His mental progression through this ordeal is something i had wanted to watch in a movie with the same theme so it felt really fresh and rewarding.If you don't care about a character study and a character arc, don't even try to watch this, if you care for good storytelling through actions, mental progression and relatively brief dialogue i can almost guarantee you will like this. Empathy is a key concept here as well.

depondt Complete garbage part from the first 10 minutes where there are no zombies....

matahari20-1 I just finished this. I very much enjoyed it. The undead in this are some of the creepiest in the genre because of their utter silence. The character of Sam really drew me in. You feel very much for him and he manages to portray just about every human emotion there is extremely well while finding ways to survive alone in the desert of death, horror and loss around him. This survival is not just about food and ravenous flesh-eating zombies. There are some small and brilliant experimental music scenes created when Sam finds ingenious ways to relieve his boredom and loneliness. He's obviously a musician . He plays drums amazingly too. There is a twist in there too. I don't want to give anything away except to say I didn't see it coming at all. There were many sad scenes. Some achingly sad. And a few humorous ones. Overall, this is an unexpected gem. Kudos!