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For a movie that uses mostly image to convey the story rather than dialog, it's rather bare-boned. Real impressive scenery is lacking, and impressive survival tactics that lead you to believe these people indeed survived an incredibly tough disaster for ten years, are virtually absent. Why do people live in tents, makeshift shelter and small caravans? No idea. They literally have a perfectly good house IN the movie.. at walkable distance. With a wood oven, a functioning tap (?) and even large caliber guns?! yet they choose to use sticks for self defense and a few stacked logs for a house What was the reason for this? It feels unenticing; it really does not make the most exciting cinematography. You can convey the post-apocalyptic ''feel'' outside of the house, they don't have to live like savages. Same with the scary ''wolves'', at least use wolf dogs.. you can clearly see they are just small shepherd dogs. They play quite a big part in the movie, seemingly being the factor everyone is mute as any sound makes them come in running like a fat kid to an ice cream truck, but they only sound scary, they look very friendly and for a supposedly incredibly vicious pack they really are a small one at that. Story wise, it's quite basic; story of revenge for his father and a rescue for his girl who is dangerously ill due to infection. Albeit a bit cliche, if done right fair enough. But there are no more twists, no sub plots, no character developments, just some randoms kill his dad and his girl is ill. Then he goes out to retrieve the medicine the perpetrators who murdered his father also stole, but locks his girlfriend in with a log. Why? What if he doesn't come back? If she needs to go to the toilet? Find water? No clue, there is a scene where the wolves find her but just a few barks and thats that, and by the time he gets back she's magically doing great, is outside and on her feet. So a great part of the story was quite literally for nothing Spoiler: He gets his revenge. This seemingly inexperienced young man with just a pocked knife just straight up kills 5 murderous scavengers armed with large blades and goes John Wick, murdering them one by one, yet most of the action is missing and the action that does happen is brief, mostly leaving crucial parts to your imagination. Yet what is shown is incompetence where he survives by luck rather than skill, leaving an automatic rifle behind, same with a revolver, forgetting to put ammunition in said rifle and setting off a trap wire which he knew was there. Backstory wise, well.. what backstory? The world ended abruptly, everything is winter now and there is no food, people are eating each other. Oh, but the literally fucking movie starts with them hunting a fat fucking pig, which they ''lose'' after tracking it for 2 minutes, but not before seeing a fish near the marsh where they lose the pig and then a couple of minutes later a bunch of wolves passes them. So everyone is starving yet there is an abundance of animals thriving in the not-so-dead forest, not exactly Mad Max where the world is a literal desert, is it? Really, it's not all bad, the actors have mostly done a convincing job, the shots and editing is really not that bad But this movie could have gotten so much more grit by adding a few extra layers with a beefier backstory, more realistic survival, a bit more elaborate story with a build up towards the show-down with the scavengers

The plot is interesting but parts of the story just literally reject giving weight to their parts and it is palpable that the original main actor left halfway through the making of the movie It could've been a solid movie but the action is just poor and not really believable, they stand around in a shootout 5 meters apart in a 1v5 a la John J. Rambo and the guy is just standing there talking and reloading, almost like a videogame where the rest of the characters will just simply wait for him to continue doing what he is doing.. there's no tension, just background noises to show ''there is a shoot out'' and unlike Rambo, who was a real boogy man bc he actually was a highly skilled MAC-V-SOG the best of the best now you're looking at a martial art teacher with basic infantry training taking on several trained cops? why miss out on that sorta weight? it's a movie, give the guy a medal and make him the best of the best, else it just seems silly same goes for why he's doing this for his cousin? why not his brother? just seems like you're missing easy extra weight but ok, not that important if the action was just done more realistic i would have given this a solid 7/10, the score is ok, the acting (minus the action) decent and the shots are well enough to be a good movie

Not great, not terrible. The acting is fine but it really feels more like an action movie than it does a horror It paces straight through, no character development and gets down to the possession and the old priest vs demon battle Just feels rushed and not really scary, or building any world or legend, just quick tricks and some fighting It definitely isnt like the other horrors out there, its an action/adventure disguished as a horror

It started out pretty promising, acting was alright, you wouldnt notice you're watching a B, tension was good, story and setting were interesting enough to carry it til about halfway then it's starts to get vague and a bit drawn out, a few scenes the acting is dipping below the set standard, feeling more like a B movie over time then the ending is quite chaotic and adds little to the story other than just a frustrating mess of gore and violence. not that i have anything against those but in this case it added little shame, it couldve been interesting if they kept it shorter and more coherent with some more details and focus on the demonic entity rather than just random people running around with a bag on their head while getting shot at