Friday, September 7, 2012

Exit Humanity (2011)

During the Civil War, Confederate soldier Edward Young sees dead soldiers come back to life.  Six years later after a hunting trip, he returns home to find his wife is a zombie and his son is missing.

After dispatching of his wife, Edward goes to search for his son.  Things do not turn as you'd hope and Edward sets out on a quest to bring his son to a waterfall he'd promised they'd visit.  A diary of his travels narrated by a current day relative entrusted with the tome provides the story.

Edward's quest brings him into contact with Isaac, who requests his help to free his sister Emma, who has been captured by renegade soldiers led by General Williams.  The renegades are trying to find a pure blood to fight the zombie infection.  Emma appears to be immune as she's been bitten but shows none of the after effects.

While the film is ambitious, it clocks in at almost two hours which is unfortunate as it would have been better as a short film.  Instead this low budget movie offers good make up and is well shot for the budget, but ultimately it's overly long and couldn't hold my attention.  I found the dialogue to be fairly boring. It's not that I need constant action to be amused, but give me something.  Good execution, but boring.  

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