When a chemical attack spawns what can only be considered a zombie outbreak, things quickly slide toward the typical undead apocalypse.
Cassie Becker is one of the few survivors, steadily picking her way eastward across the country in the possibly forlorn hope of finding her brother and his family still alive. Initially she is entirely alone in her quest, but then she stumbles across a teenage boy who becomes her companion in the journey.
This human contact is welcome, but it prompts a resurgence of memories of Cassie's life before the disaster, and the more she recalls the past, the more she struggles with the present, and the stranger things seem to get.
You may well guess where After the Dawn is headed before it finally reaches its destination. I certainly did. I can see why, as an idea, it would have excited someone to make the film, but I feel like it would work much better as a Twilight Zone-style 25 minute short rather than a 90-minute feature. As is, the journey to get there is just too long and drawn out.
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