Sarah has a real penchant for Zombie movies. When it comes to horror she isn't usually the biggest fan, especially of anything paranormal. But zombies are obviously not real, so she likes them! Last night she brought home The Horde from work.
It started with a loose plotline to give us a reason why people with guns are in a condemned building in France. During the botched assault the cops and criminals find themselves in the middle of Judgement Day, surrounded by zombies, and watching there friends and neighbours who they just killed in the shoot out come back to get them.
There is some attempts to get a decent plotline in here, and perhaps if I spoke French I would have cared, but I didn't. As zombie movies go it managed to avoid quite a few clichés, building on the success of recent zombie-esque movies to avoid the usual tense moment build ups that are now common place.
It is violent, perhaps not in some aspects and in comparison to other zombie flicks, but watching one of the main characters flatten a zombies face on a pillar was pretty gruesome. One of the key features of this film was the hand to hand combat with the zombies. It suffers from clear editing and frame rate issues, but its pretty imaginative as you don't often see the humans squaring off with the undead. The movie has an overall arc, the beginning and the end essentially showing that everyone ends up dead, zombiefied or not.
If you are a zombie nerd like my wife and I, this is worth a watch. If you are casual on horror's, don't bother.
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