The Night Eats the World

The French movie The Night Eats the World is a good example of how it is possible to make a zombie movie that is a little different and still really very good. It is not a great movie and does not really bring anything new. However, it is a pretty good look at one man and his struggle to come to terms with a world that has literally changed overnight. The way he tries to cope with this is portrayed very well from a psychological standpoint. (01/08/2020)

When in today's flood of zombie movies someone can still come up with something fresh, it's very gratifying. All you have to do is combine a zombie film with the wordless post-apocalyptic subgenre of last man on earth, lock the protagonist in an apartment building and watch the zombie apocalypse purely from his limited perspective, through a window. And as is the way with last men on earth, they gradually get bored. So the hero is fighting boredom and loneliness most of the time rather than zombies (at one point he even tries to befriend his zombie neighbor). While there are moments when the boredom gets to be too much and we start to get a little bored with him, most of the time we enjoy the refreshingly minimalist concept full of off-the-wall ideas that we don't normally see in zombie movies. The zombies themselves are a little different here than how we know them. They don't make any sounds. They are completely silent, which is not only chilling, but also interestingly corresponds with the fact that this is actually a silent film for the most part. (06/29/2018)