A couple of terrorists (Evan Makrogiannis, Shun Serita) thought it a great idea to set free a mutated cholera virus in the fresh water sewers of NYC, a virus that ultimately turned the infected into zombies ...

Mother Rose (Manoush) has somehow managed to turn her place into a safe haven for the non-infected - and while she can be very proud of her efforts as such, her main problem is she has pretty much taken in the good - like good-hearted Matt (Stephen Kilcullen) or tough but fair army guy Tyrell (David Calderazzo) - with the bad - like selfish used car salesman Peter (Nik Taneris) or self-righteous preacher Father Albin (Demitri Kallas) with his brain-washed follower Angel (Ruby Larocca) -, which is of course only a fuse for conflicts. And then there are the two boys (Liam Makrogiannis, Johnny Dickie) she has taken in that trigger her motherly instincts - but one of them is actually infected, so all of this is a bomb that's really about to go off any minute ...

Now I'm the first one to admit that Survive isn't breaking any new ground regarding the zombie genre - but it really captures the feel of grindhouse and direct-to-video zombie movies from yesteryear quite beautifully, which would be remarkable even if the director wasn't in his mid-teens (and thus much too young to be around when the films he emulates were made and released). Basically, it's really refreshing to see a film that's free of post-modernism and instead goes for the jugular whenever the story demands it, and that just has fun with the horror genre the old-fashioned (but tried-and true) way.
Sure, not everybody will like it, but genre fans will at least get a kick out of the movie.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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