{"id":22825,"date":"2016-10-18T04:38:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22825"},"modified":"2016-10-18T04:38:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T08:38:30","slug":"what-we-become-2016-blu-raydvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/what-we-become-2016-blu-raydvd\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Become (2016) [Blu-Ray\/DVD]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wwb\"<\/a>It\u2019s \u201cNight of the Living Dead Yuppies\u201d in what is easily one of the most asinine foreign zombie movies of the year. In a year where we were able to see brilliant zombie fare like \u201cTrain to Busan<\/a>\u201d and \u201cSeoul Station<\/a>,\u201d it\u2019s sad we have \u201cWhat We Become,\u201d a pretty frustrating horror drama that ends just as it begins to pick up steam. It\u2019s not really a zombie movie, but it feels like one heavy handed commentary on how vicious and cruel we become when we\u2019re faced with the task of surviving and caring for one another. It\u2019s nothing we haven\u2019t seen covered in George Romero\u2019s films, or \u201cThe Walking Dead,\u201d before. Yes, when faced with survival, we will tear each other\u2019s throats out for a can of beans, the military is shifty and violent, the elderly are usually the first to go, and deep down we\u2019re all selfish bastards. Also kids never stay in the damn house, even during a zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n

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Set in the Danish suburb of Sorgenfri, we meet a small family that has suddenly been thrust in to the center of a mysterious virus that has spread all over their neighborhood and surrounding suburbs. As the sick begin to rise, and the infection spreads, the suburbs are closed off and locked down, as well as heavily monitored by the military. Before long, dad Dino and his family begin to observe the activity of the military hoping to outlast the infection and find out what\u2019s occurring. Director and writer Bo Mikkelson sets up the idea that the military are just treating the hosts as guinea pigs, before long that plot element is oddly dropped. We\u2019re then fed another zombie movie. By the second half it becomes apparent we\u2019re following a group of really stupid and idiotic characters, all of whom act well beyond any kind of logic or common sense. Every character is written as either painfully selfish, or inept, including young son Gustav, who seems hell bent on helping his next door neighbor and risking his life for her, just for the sake of sex.<\/p>\n

Dad Dino is depicted as gullible and clueless while mom Pernille is inexplicably cruel most of the time she\u2019s on screen. Mikkelson also sets up a lot of plot points he never answers. So is the infection airborne or not? Are the dead conscious some how? Why are they attracted by light? What is it about the dark that makes them drift off? Do head shots bring them down like normal zombies? How did the infection spread? Why did some of the dead drift back to their old homes? Did the military have the infection under control or not? Was Denmark infected or just the small suburb of Sorgenfri? \u201cWhat We Become\u201d clocks in at seventy seven minutes, and doesn\u2019t pick up team until fifty minutes, and then the narrative simply screeches to a halt. \u201cWhat We Become\u201d feels like a tired retread of zombie fodder we\u2019ve seen a dozen times before; it\u2019s a sub-par and forgettable horror drama asking for a lot of investment in a story that goes nowhere.<\/p>\n

The release from Scream Factory comes with a DVD copy of the film. The release only comes with the original trailer for the film, which clocks in at almost two minutes.<\/p>\n