Indie filmmaker and zombie fan Reese Eveneshen (
Writer/Director/Cinematographer)
previously made waves on the low budget indie zombie flick scene with his 2007
remake of
Night of the Living Dead, and with the follow-up film –
Dead
Genesis – Eveneshen seeks to tread familiar ground with a serious approach and
bloody-minded ambition.
“It's not a war, it's us kickin' ass!”
Beginning on Day 1 of the zombie apocalypse, we are quickly whisked through to
Day 231, with the crumbling of society, and a push-back by the living,
scanned-over with highlights. Families are literally torn apart (in an
eye-widening first five minutes that separates the men from the boys),
lawlessness takes over, and the 'War on Dead' begins with local militias becoming
heroes of a resurrected New Media Corporation. Stories of hope and survival are
transmitted to survivors as mankind sets about taking back what's theirs – but
at what cost to their humanity?
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