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Due to some botched up shady deal, a virus that turns humans into
zombies is released in a small British coastal town - so the gouvernment
sends in soldiers in gasmasks to search for possible survivors and
eliminate the zombies. The film follows a trio of soldiers, Weston (John
Chance), Anderson (Michael Himsworth) and Green (Richard Chance) in their
desperate effort to secure house after house and figt off zombies who
constantly seem to pop up out of nowhere. But all is not well in the team,
and eventually Green dies - and Weston suspects Anderson of having killed
him, yet he's in a situation in which he has to trust Anderson with his
life. Eventually, Weston and Anderson meet up with another trio of
soldiers, but while Weston is out paroling the streets on his own,
Anderson kills the other three. Once Weston returns, he finds evidence of
Anderson's involvement in their deaths, and learns that the gouvernment
has sent Anderson with him to cover the whole thing up. Anderson and
Weston battle it out, and ultimately, Anderson throws Weston off some
cliffs. But when he wants to deliver the evidence he was sent to find to
his employer, he is shot dead And the coastal village? It's nuked. A
zombie-flick shot the avant-garde way: The camerawork's unusual and
interesting, to say the least, the film is shot in black and white with
colour bookends, some of the filmstock is intentionally grainy, large
portions of the film are without dialogue, the gasmasked protagonists give
the movie an otherworldly feel, ... If you think though, making an
avant-garde zombie movie is necessarily a silly idea, well it is not, as
this film is in parts incredibly moody and intense - despite its low
production values - and many scenes you have seen way too often in other
zombie flicks seem fresh again. That all said, the film's unfortunately
less than perfect: With a running time of two and a half hours, it's way
too long for its rather feeble narrative, and the fact that all characters
wear gasmasks makes it incredibly difficult to follow the plot as such let
alone create sympathy for the characters. Still, The Veil is
worth a look, to say the very least.
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