Páiric O'Corráin Extinction: Two Men And A Little Lady, And Zombies.Yes theres a Zombie Outbreak or Zomboid rather as they are not dead. Starts out with all but 4 of a busload of evacuees being wiped out in an attack. Two men, a woman & a baby girl survive but the woman has been bitten.Nine years later. The men (living next door to each other) are bitter enemies, the girl lives with one who prefers a cloistered existence, the other is more of a survivalist. Flashbacks reveal the roots of their mutual animosity and the fate of the woman.The Zomboids have developed and are encroaching on the humans territory, this and their feelings for the girl force the men to cooperate. To scout out new territories.and to search for other survivors.While it does owe debts to I Am Legend and The Walking Dead this film succeeds on its own terms. A convincing Post-Apocalypse SF/Horror Thriller. 7/10

airsnob So overall this is a great zombie movie. Don't listen to the haters. They simply have bad taste. Overall what can we really expect from a zombie movie anyways guys? So coming to it with that mystery solved , I walked away pretty satisfied. We all have heard the plot although reading the reviews I'm really shocked that people interpreted it in their own way. Like these two guys didn't know each other before the bus. But anyways I guess it's left up to interpretation and it pains me to say that ( a very obvious sign of a childhood friendship is at the dinner table when Lu asked what he liked to do as a kid and he said play hockey with my friends and the friend had a very obvious reaction ) OK so my only complaint about this movie is that Jack , the adopted dad and apparent fling of the mothers ( but we never find out for sure because dad was drunk and you know how drunk guys get . Or did he start drinking after the affair because he seemed to be a normal guy before the zombie invasion ) but Jack is obviously gay. I think this is becoming my pet peeve with movies lately , the actors can't seem to keep their gay out of it when they are supposed to be playing straight guys. Nothing against gay guys but it really takes the fantasy and illusion out of it and is downright distracting when the main lead is gay and we are also supposed to take seriously that he was a contender in this love triangle. Yeah. He can't. So that happened and it sucked. But other than that, this movie actually impressed me most at the end. Why? Because there was some deep messages there.. This dude Jack all throughout the movie was trying really hard to be a good dad and he was a good dad by default. How can you not be a good dad when you dedicate your life to a kid? But in the end, what makes us good parents is much different than making your kid do homework at 6. Or obey you all the time. It's sacrifice. A parent would be the only person on the planet that would gladly give their lives for their children to live. Only a real dad can do that. A real good dad. In this case it's the biological father , but in some cases it isn't. This movie managed to teach a great lesson about what real parenthood is about. While we are surrounded by soccer moms and grand birthday parties that would put a 16 year old to shame, a real good parent doesn't always look the part. Doesn't do everything right. Doesn't need everything in its place or in order. Because a real parent is willing to lay down their life for that kid. The truth is in them at all times and it colors everything they do. The bad dad in this case was still the best dad. He sacrificed his entire life for her to be near her and at the end to let her live. He didn't need any credit in that. He didn't need any props and that is what it's all about.

philipmorrison-73118 This movie had some interesting concepts, but also had some issues with the delivery. This movie is about a group of two guys and a woman and her baby trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. The woman gets bit, so it is just the two guys and the baby. The two guys head north where it is too cold for the zombies. The father, played by Mathew Fox, can't handle the trauma and becomes an alcoholic. His best friend, played by Jeffrey Donovan, feels he has no choice but to raise the girl himself and vows that his father will now have nothing to do with her. Time passes for 8 or 9 years and the little girl tries to get the two men to begin talking to one another and mend old feuds. Oh yeah, the zombies have adapted to the cold and are coming to get them. The filming of this movie is very dark and you can hardly see anything. The two actors played it up pretty well, but I couldn't believe for one minute that they would continue some long feud when they are fighting to survive. I like my zombies slow and dumb and these were fast and adaptable. The little girl does too many things to worsen their situation. The two guys have built a fortress to protect themselves and the zombies get in like it was nothing. A lot of little things brought this movie down from being a pretty decent concept.

Nigel P (Not to be confused with the Dinosaur drama of the same name from 2014, this film is adapted from the zombie novel 'Y pese a todo/And Despite Everything' by Juan de Dios Garduno.) Jeffrey Donovan stars with great intensity as Jack. His face may be familiar to horror fans as Jeffrey Patterson in 'Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2' (he was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Award for one half of the Worst Screen Couple in that much maligned film). Here, he and a little girl, the impetuous Lu (a brilliant Quinn McColgan) are two survivors of a zombie attack on a bus attempting to transport people to a 'safe zone' nine years earlier. Now, the world is in the biting grip of a very impressively imagined snow-scape. They meet up with Patrick, also a survivor of the attack and a character with his own story to tell, who is played with sensitivity by Matthew Fox. At one point we see a frozen cinema advertising screenings of 'At the Mountains of Madness' – maybe this is an in-joke: a film adaption of this HP Lovecraft story has been promised and 'in the works' for some time now. It seems the filmmakers here are suggesting the world will have frozen over before it sees fruition! 'Extinction' is a fairly intimate story of human tragedy and forgiveness with a freezing backdrop of both a second ice age, and the evolution and adaption of the zombie creatures still in existence. Amongst the hopelessness, there is a scattering of heart-warming moments – Jack, Lu and Patrick turning from enemies to (almost) friends over a meal instigated by the youngster. And if the image of a bedraggled man cradling his dead dog, himself attacked and wounded by a zombie, across a picture postcard apocalypse doesn't bring a tear to the eye, the viewer must have a hardened heart.Filmed in Hungary and Spain, the constant dazzling white makes for a stunning visual framework for the well-acted human drama that unfolds. Very occasionally, moments threaten to cross the line into overt sentimentality, but manage to rein themselves in with commendable restraint. Only moments after Patrick assures everyone that 'no-one is going to die,' it is his sacrifice that allows Jack, Lu and a nameless new arrival (Clara Lago) the possibility of freedom – albeit uncertain.