The
Night Eats The World 9/10
There
be spoilers here. I decided to check this movie The Night Eats The World out on Amazon after seeing it pop up on a few best of lists. I knew
it was about zombies and involved a drum. That's about it. It takes
an odd mixture for me to like zombie films. There are so many of them
and they lean towards comedy, drama, or a mixture of the two at odd
times. People love talking about Shaun Of The Dead but I think Juan Of The Dead is a cool ass movie too. This movie though? No humor.
Just me sitting here with my cheeks clinched super tight wondering
what the fuck is happening and how this guy is going to survive it.
This movie does not try to be cool. It does not attempt to reinvent
the wheel. It is a story of one dudes survival against a horde of
zombies in Paris. Yeah, this is a French film but no one speaks it so
no need for lazy asses or people who look at their phones pretending
to watch a movie to worry.
This
guy named Sam played by Anders Danielsen Lie who is a musician heads
to this party thrown by his ex to pick up some of his stuff. Oh, we
have all been there. His nose starts bleeding and he finds a room and
ends up passing out on a couch. There are bumps and shit happening
but he does not hear any of it. He wakes up surprised and when he
heads into the hallway he sees his ex who turns around and holy shit
she's a zombie! The entire place is covered in blood, shit it all
jacked up, and he has no idea what happened. He looks outside and
sees a few wandering zombies who are silent as hell. This is not a
roaring zombie. They are not super clever zombies. They just rush at
your chomping.
He
starts securing the building he is in. Checking apartments in the
building for occupants. He starts listening to his tapes as he cleans
and gathers food. One day while scrubbing the floor he hears some
sounds and puts his head to it...blam! A hole explodes next to his
head. He waits a bit and peeps through the hole. An old man killed
his wife and himself. Sam lowers himself down there and, yay, more
free food. He finds an old man stuck in a lift and ties it shut with
a belt, finds out his name is Alfred, and talks to him sometimes. Sam
plays the drums which attracts zombies and wanders around trying to
not go crazy. One day he sees a cat outside and tries to lure it in
as I say “Leave that cat the fuck alone!” He goes out to get it
and ends up fighting some zombies and getting scratched. He heads
back inside to see the cat cuddling up with a zombie and shoots it.
Then he freaks out seeing he has been scratched by a zombie an puts a
gun to his head. He falls asleep with it on his chin and almost blows
his fucking brains out. He is not a zombie. Stupid. But not a zombie.
Sam
is losing his shit. He talks to Alfred more. Argues with him. Gets
drunk. By the way, they still have not said how all this shit
started. There is no electricity. No alarms going off. No army
swooping in. The heat is now gone. He has to get water by collecting
it in buckets on the roof. Shit's desperate. One night while he is
sleeping he hears a sound at his door and shoots it. He looks through
the hole and, holy crap, it is a woman! A cute woman. Her name is
Sarah and she is played by Golshifteh Farahani. He
hit her in the gut and rushes to help her. She slowly begins to heal
and he digs her. She tells him that they need to escape by jumping to
the next building which he says is impossible. She says he will die
here or go insane. He thinks they should stay for help. She walks
away and he rushes to her room to tel her she was right and notices
an X on the door. He opens it and her dead body is laying there. She
never recovered from the gunshot he gave her. So...yeah. He is losing
all his shit.
I
won't say how the rest of this ends. I really enjoyed this movie.
This movie has no background music. So much of this is silent which
adds to the creepy. Also the fact that the zombies don't run around
moaning and screaming. So awesome that it turned out that Sarah was not real! They don't even pay attention to you until you
make some noise. And this movie was a case of me not minding how shit
got weird. I did not care if it was caused by space aliens, a secret
experiment, or a virus. The idea of waking up from a party and things
being fucked up was enough. You can compare that premise to 28 Days
Later (and point out those weren't zombies) if you want to prove how much you know about zombie films and
how there are no original ideas. It is totally okay for you to be
that not fun person. I liked this and if you feel like being spooked
check this out on Amazon.
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