Sometimes a classy fellow like myself will watch a horror movie just because a lady friend wants to see the new trendy thing that is all the rage. Well, this is the latest "flavor of the week" that is creating lots of buzz on social media and like everything else that is currently so very important on Facebook-like websites I'm certain it will be completely forgotten within a week or two. Calling this film a horror flick is also being a bit generous as it really seems to be more akin to something like THE WALKING DEAD t.v. program(which was similarly on the tip of everyone's tongue up until recently when it seems to have disappeared from most folk's radar) which is just a soap-opera-ish end of the world thriller with intermittent scenes of tense terror. There are a couple of bloody moments here though, most notably an old lady who scissors her own neck to death, that keep it from being a total Lifetime "movie for women" situation, so that's nice. At over 2 hours though I couldn't help but feel this coulda been edited down quite a bit and maybe even told in a more linear fashion. My favorite bits involved John Malkovich as a grumpy fuck who is pretty much right about everything. There are way worse modern things you could watch but maybe wait a while so you don't look like some kinda hipster bandwagon-jumper!
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