Sam stops by his ex-friend’s to collect his ‘tapes,’ only to find a raging party happening. He has a few drinks and eventually passes out in a locked room. When he wakes up the following morning, the world is quiet and everyone is dead… Or undead.
Sam begins the task of cleaning up and clearing out the Paris apartment building, and fortifying it for a long haul. He must forage the former residents pantries, and meticulously budgeting his finds, all while desperately trying to stave off boredom and paranoia.
After what seems like months, Sam meets Sarah. But Sarah has a different philosophy and tries to convince Sam into finding a way out, instead of just staying put.
The whole movie plays on that ‘desperation and loneliness,’ theme, but still works in quite a few good zombie scares.
And those zombies were great! Squarely Romeros, but not TOO slow! And they were completely and totally silent. No growling, no gasping, nothing. Now you might not think this is huge, but, I’ll tell you, there is a massive creepiness factor to that, and really makes being moving around risky in a dead quiet world.
Aside from that, it is a standard ‘guy wakes up and everyone else is dead’ movie, (file along with ‘#Alive’ or ‘Rammbock,)’ but still done really well, and served with a deep look into the psychological trauma of enforced isolation.
But let’s see how it holds up to the completely objective, and totally non-biased grading tool - The ZMR!
Well, the movie’s slow pace and the overall lack of originality may have dragged it down a bit, but those awesome undead, big budget production quality, and cool special effects earned The Night Eats The World a 2.66 out of a possible 4.0. This puts it as an above average entry in the Zombie Apocalypse film world!
But overall, it is just a fun, scary, creepy, zombie movie!
Oh yeah, there is also pretty cool YouTube trailer here:
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