Stake Land

w/d  Jim Mickle

Well done low-budget horror film. The premise has been used many times - some unknown disease has ravaged the population rendering many hideous ghouls intent on killing the remaining normals. In addition, crackpot religious cults have emerged posing a further threat. Set in the US the 'New Eden' our characters seek is Canada.

Perfectly paced, good use of action (if brutal) scenes, strongly drawn characters...the film gave a good sense of what surviving day-by-day in the remnants of civilization would be like. Menace was everywhere and only the alert and merciless would live. Human kindness and mutual support were the key.

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