The apocalypse. I
love it. I love everything about it, I love the potential for story and
human study is presents, I love the whole idea of society crumbling
under the threat of some force, and
I revel in writing about it. “After” is yet another take on a zombie
apocalypse, except this time… it’s through the eyes of a zombie. After a
presumably horribly bloody death, three survivors, held up in a large
house, draw their attention elsewhere as their father lays in the next
room slowly dying. Through his eyes, we watch his last sights as his
children run back and forth planning an escape from the zombies outside.
He then emerges and begins wandering the house, with his children
struggling to fend him off without killing him.
Through this
we watch a zombie apocalypse of Romero proportions as they
run around looking for an escape and have to contend with
him as he attempts to bite at them and becomes one of the
crowds of zombies waiting outside. Shot without a score that
enhances the realism and with a sheer black and white bleak
style, “After” is really a fantastic horror ditty that gives
us a rare view into a zombie’s aimless existence and their
inability to keep their urges from even their closest
relatives.
I got chills up my
spine as Kemp and the Digitribe crew ace the feeling of carnage and
sheer hopelessness while dropping us right down into the middle of this
nightmare that obviously has no hope of ending any time soon. Radio
reports blare in the background, and the cabin fever has obviously
gotten to these characters, and they’re now forced with their own father
who has risen and wants some fresh blood. This just an excellent look
through the eyes of the walking dead without any camp or satire to muck
it all up. Like a preamble to an epic zombie film, “After” is a
wonderful independent horror flick.
I've never seen a more horrific indie zombie movie before, and in only
seven minutes "After" succeeds as a great zombie film, a wonderful short
film, and an utterly original concept all at once.
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I've never seen a more horrific indie zombie movie before, and in only
seven minutes "After" succeeds as a great zombie film, a wonderful short
film, and an utterly original concept all at once.
