Posts Tagged ‘post-apocalyptic’

Short Take: A good mix of what is traditional with what is new

Directors: Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead)

Screenwriters: Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead)

Cast: Ethan Hawke (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), Willem Dafoe (Fantastic Mr. Fox), Claudia Karvan

Length: 1h 38m

Synopsis: In the year 2019 most of the world’s population consists not of humans, but of vampires. Like a plague, the supernatural makeup of these undead has spread to all corners of the earth, dropping humanity from #1 on the food chain down to #2. Vampires soon overgrazed on their primary food source, reducing the human population to less than 5% of what it once was. If starved for human blood long enough vampires are transformed/deformed into nothing but wild animals, which is a change the vampires want to avoid at all costs. A small number of humans continues to fight for their lives with the help of certain sympathetic vampires, and together their goal is to find a cure that will re-humanize the earth. Read the rest of this entry »

Short Take: A film of conviction and faith whose statements about religion are rife with controversy

Directors: Albert and Allen Hughes (From Hell, Dead Presidents)

Screenwriter: Gary Whitta (Debut)

Cast: Denzel Washington (Training Day), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight), Mila Kunis (Extract)

Length: 1h 58m

Synopsis: In post-apocalyptic America, decades after a natural disaster involving the sun and a subsequent war destroyed almost all life on earth, a man treks west in search of a civilization that will put what he has to good use in order to save mankind. What he has there is only one of anymore, and that is a copy of the King James Holy Bible. On his way west he finds a town that’s run by a very dangerous man who seeks to find his own copy of the bible and use it to control the minds of the ignorant and desperate. When the two men meet it ignites a struggle between good and evil that could alter the face of human civilization forever. Read the rest of this entry »