Extinction (2015)

Thanks for the memories!

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

This didn't start off too promising for me - a zombie attack on a bus load of passengers with lots of blurred, shaky cam (I hate that), indicating yet another zombie apocalypse movie (yawn, this has been done to death). But then it's fast forward 9 years to a frozen place called Harmony, where we find three survivors from the bus attack. Jack is living with a young girl called Lou, who refers to him as Dad. Next door is Patrick, a drunk who lives with his dog. They are no longer on speaking terms until events take a turn for the worse.. This film is a slow burn, it's more about the relationship between these three characters than the zombies (perhaps infected would be a better word to describe them). So it may put some horror fans off who may become impatient but I found the film to be well made, well acted and although it is quite predictable I was intrigued as to what was going to happen. One thing that I thought stupid however was that these creatures appear to be naked apart from wearing white pants! If you like horror combined with drama then highly recommended; if you just want a zombie gorefest either get prepared to hit the FFWD button or give it a miss.

Extinction: Two Men And A Little Lady, And Zombies.Yes theres a Zombie Outbreak or Zomboid rather as they are not dead. Starts out with all but 4 of a busload of evacuees being wiped out in an attack. Two men, a woman & a baby girl survive but the woman has been bitten.Nine years later. The men (living next door to each other) are bitter enemies, the girl lives with one who prefers a cloistered existence, the other is more of a survivalist. Flashbacks reveal the roots of their mutual animosity and the fate of the woman.The Zomboids have developed and are encroaching on the humans territory, this and their feelings for the girl force the men to cooperate. To scout out new territories.and to search for other survivors.While it does owe debts to I Am Legend and The Walking Dead this film succeeds on its own terms. A convincing Post-Apocalypse SF/Horror Thriller. 7/10

When are they finally going to stop making so many redundant, derivative and overly pretentious new zombie movies?!? No wait… Better question: when am I finally going to stop watching all those redundant, derivative and overly pretentious new zombie movies? If there are two sub genres that have truly outstayed their horror welcome, it's the light-headed zombie comedy and the depressing zombie apocalypse drama. The first of the two can still be enjoyable, in case you manage to switch off all brain functions, but the latter are usually very tiresome and pompous movies from aspiring young directors that desperately try to add something new without realizing that literally everything has been done before in the zombie film industry. The unique selling point of this "Extinction" (apart from the fact that it's a Spanish-American- Hungarian-French co-production) is an allegedly heart-wrenching sub plot about two fathers emulating for the love of their 9-year-old daughter Lu and, later in the film, the strange discovery that the zombies have seemingly evolved into robotic/mutant type of creatures. Their bite apparently isn't infectious anymore and they communicate with each other through shrieks, but seriously who cares? There's quite a bit of action in the opening ten minutes of the film, with a bus full the humanity's final survivors violently getting invaded by a horde of zombies, and then the plot leaps forward nine years in time. The world turned into a snowy apocalyptic wasteland and former love-rivals Jack and Patrick live as neighbors but don't interact with each other in a town called – ha ha – Harmony! Even though they haven't spotted a zombie in years, Jack is totally paranoid and doesn't allow his daughter Lu to set foot outside of the house. Patrick sends out radio broadcasts and goes out hunting with his dog. When the new and improved zombies return, they are forced to set aside old disputes and rivalries in order to survive. 80% of "Extinction" is dull and predictable. The remaining 20%, the opening and climax, aren't dull but nevertheless predictable and identical to dozens of other zombie flicks. The drama aspects entirely miss their effect and, in fact, aren't even that remarkable. Truly worthwhile zombie apocalypse dramas do exist but are rather scarce, like "The Battery" for example, while "Extinction" is just another millionth forgettable zombie flick.

This movie was made in Hungary. --Shortly into the movie a horse is shot dead, it looks very real. There is nothing in the credits that says no animals were brought to harm, so once again we have a movie made in a country outside the USA in which animals were killed to save special effects money. I don't like seeing this kind of thing, I guess a lot of people do. --There isn't much more for me to say about this movie, I was disappointed that syfy would promote this, but I guess I'm maybe one in a thousand that even cares about stuff like this --Anyone reading this will probably think, dude, what are you watching zombies movies for if this bothers you. The answer is, the horse has absolutely no say in its situation, its a helpless defenseless creature. A movie company may as well put a large predator into a holding pen with a horse that has no way to move or defend itself, and film the slaughter, slapping one another on the back about a job well done. --Thanks for reading