When a zombie apocalypse sweeps the planet, old friends Jack and Patrick, as well as Jack's baby daughter Lu, are among the few survivors. Jack's wife, alas, doesn't make it.
Nine years later, Jack and Patrick live in neighbouring houses in the tiny town of Harmony. Their properties are separated by a chain-link fence, and Lu is living with Patrick, whom she believes to be her biological father. As the film will (eventually, glacially) reveal, Jack became an alcoholic after his wife was killed, and neglected his daughter. Patrick took her away and has raised her as his own ever since.
The one positive thing is that they haven't seen a zombie in years. Possibly the undead were wiped out by the ice age that seems to have swept the planet?
Actually, no they weren't, they've just evolved into a new form, white-skinned, blind and possessed of hyper-sensitive hearing. How dead things can evolve, how this can happen in a mere nine years, or why there was any need for them to be zombies in the first place, and not scary spindly monsters all along, are all questions for which the film will offer no answers.
Actually, no they weren't, they've just evolved into a new form, white-skinned, blind and possessed of hyper-sensitive hearing. How dead things can evolve, how this can happen in a mere nine years, or why there was any need for them to be zombies in the first place, and not scary spindly monsters all along, are all questions for which the film will offer no answers.
Anyway, eventually the new monsters turn up, and then a new character arrives to explain things to Jack and Patrick, and there's finally some action to enliven things, but it's very much too little too late. It's a shame, because the main cast here are all capable of solid work and I'd be interested to see them in something with a bit more oomph to it.
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