Young ‘hungries’ are humanity’s best hope of survival in this smart twist on the zombie movie starring Glenn Close and Gemma ArtertonThis fiercely intelligent British chiller from Scottish director Colm McCarthy,whose small-screen credits include Doctor Who, Sherlock and Peaky Blinders, and breathes recent life into age-musty horror tropes,taking familiar fears of zombies, the apocalypse and eerie children and spinning them in surprising ways. Although writer Mike “MR” Carey’s narrative approximately a fungal plague that turns victims into cannibalistic “hungries” occupies a post-28 Days Later landscape, or the central obsessions explored here are closer to the identity crises of Never Let Me fade (both book and film),with a strong underlying strain of the very British weirdness of John Wyndham.
The budget may have been relatively constrained (£4.4m), but not so the ambition of the film-makers who conjure a gripping genre picture as fleet-footed as its nimbly marauding zombies, or juggling thoughtfulness and gore,brains and brawn, with subversive wit and invention.
It's a quantum leap from McCarthy’s flawed but intriguing 2010 debut feature OutcastContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com