I love zombie movies, and appreciate fresh takes on the genre. However, the pointless and glaringly obvious errors and nonsensical events just say "lazy writing."
After "something bad happens" to a bus full of people and two heavily armed military men, wtf would you OPEN THE DOORS and not just drive the bus away??? There's no real sense of urgency, and the "look out" somehow misses the monster that runs right up to them.
Aside from that, it's apparently winter all the time? Only explanation for murder/suicide bodies to be left intact and not decomposed after years.
Girl sees a monster DIGGING UNDER THEIR FENCE, and not only doesn't mention the breech to her Dad, he never notices the huge hole either. Even later, when it's obvious the monsters are back, still nothing. Then, she goes OUTSIDE, at NIGHT, through the gaping hole, to put plastic flowers on a dog grave. UGH.
Neighbor doesn't mention that monsters are blind and hunt by sound, which would be helpful to know when fighting them off.
Gasoline goes bad after just a few months/years. Wth does all the fuel come from for the generator, truck, and snowmobile?!!? There's a windmill, that never moves in all the snow, why isn't it working to generate power? Wth did the battery for the truck that's been sitting for years come from? How are is it not just frozen solid after sitting all that time???
It's supposedly freezing cold, all the time, so no idea where the wild herbivore animals (non-hibernating rabbit, horse) find things to eat.
Zombies wearing underpants? Really??? WHY?
There are no other kids around, where does the girl get ideas about what is and isn't appropriate for her age? Too old for dolls? Who cares?!
Speaking of cold... as my Mom would say "WERE YOU ALL BORN IN A BARN???" They are CONSTANTLY leaving doors wide open, day and night. Gathering fuel to burn to heat those homes would require HUGE amounts of energy = calories = food = additional foraging =even more work. Leaving doors open like that, having uncovered single pane windows, etc is just plain stupid, and serves no purpose. Not that there's even a basic attempt to make it really appear cold. No frosted breath, no snow on actors after being outside.
Monsters INSIDE THE WALLS??? Which movie is this? Because anyone who has ever seen the inside of an actual wall knows how stupid this idea is. Builders don't waste valuable materials, space, and effort building in huge dead spaces inside walls unless they're perverts, serial killers, bootleggers, or smuggling slaves to freedom.
Finally- Wtf is up with the ending?! What are they looking at? A sunrise? A working city? A space ship? Disneyland? Who knows! Nine years and apparently they never found a short wave radio that should have allowed them to contact people hundreds, or even thousands of miles away... instead just one person only 50 miles away.
I knkw we are all dredging the bottom of our watch lists 11 months into this pandemic, but this one still isn't worth it. Go watch a classic, or short indie film collection. Or the inside of your eyelids instead.
After "something bad happens" to a bus full of people and two heavily armed military men, wtf would you OPEN THE DOORS and not just drive the bus away??? There's no real sense of urgency, and the "look out" somehow misses the monster that runs right up to them.
Aside from that, it's apparently winter all the time? Only explanation for murder/suicide bodies to be left intact and not decomposed after years.
Girl sees a monster DIGGING UNDER THEIR FENCE, and not only doesn't mention the breech to her Dad, he never notices the huge hole either. Even later, when it's obvious the monsters are back, still nothing. Then, she goes OUTSIDE, at NIGHT, through the gaping hole, to put plastic flowers on a dog grave. UGH.
Neighbor doesn't mention that monsters are blind and hunt by sound, which would be helpful to know when fighting them off.
Gasoline goes bad after just a few months/years. Wth does all the fuel come from for the generator, truck, and snowmobile?!!? There's a windmill, that never moves in all the snow, why isn't it working to generate power? Wth did the battery for the truck that's been sitting for years come from? How are is it not just frozen solid after sitting all that time???
It's supposedly freezing cold, all the time, so no idea where the wild herbivore animals (non-hibernating rabbit, horse) find things to eat.
Zombies wearing underpants? Really??? WHY?
There are no other kids around, where does the girl get ideas about what is and isn't appropriate for her age? Too old for dolls? Who cares?!
Speaking of cold... as my Mom would say "WERE YOU ALL BORN IN A BARN???" They are CONSTANTLY leaving doors wide open, day and night. Gathering fuel to burn to heat those homes would require HUGE amounts of energy = calories = food = additional foraging =even more work. Leaving doors open like that, having uncovered single pane windows, etc is just plain stupid, and serves no purpose. Not that there's even a basic attempt to make it really appear cold. No frosted breath, no snow on actors after being outside.
Monsters INSIDE THE WALLS??? Which movie is this? Because anyone who has ever seen the inside of an actual wall knows how stupid this idea is. Builders don't waste valuable materials, space, and effort building in huge dead spaces inside walls unless they're perverts, serial killers, bootleggers, or smuggling slaves to freedom.
Finally- Wtf is up with the ending?! What are they looking at? A sunrise? A working city? A space ship? Disneyland? Who knows! Nine years and apparently they never found a short wave radio that should have allowed them to contact people hundreds, or even thousands of miles away... instead just one person only 50 miles away.
I knkw we are all dredging the bottom of our watch lists 11 months into this pandemic, but this one still isn't worth it. Go watch a classic, or short indie film collection. Or the inside of your eyelids instead.