{"id":40239,"date":"2023-07-02T16:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T20:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40239"},"modified":"2023-07-02T16:40:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T20:40:46","slug":"tales-from-the-apocalypse-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/02\/tales-from-the-apocalypse-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the Apocalypse (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019m shocked at how great \u201cTales from the Apocalypse\u201d was, and I say that as someone that loves a good apocalyptic yarn here and there. While I wouldn\u2019t be quick to compare it to \u201cTrick r Treat\u201d as the premise has explained, it manages to stand on its own two feet as\u00a0 great anthology filled with five great science fiction shorts obvious influenced by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Rod Serling, and Richard Matheson. I\u2019m also glad a lot of the shorts picked for this film aren\u2019t the usual tired tropes, but aim for something so much more meaningful and thought provoking.<\/p>\n

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William Hellmuth\u2019s \u201cAlone\u201d is my favorite of the bunch centering on a space pilot named Kaya who managed to barely escape the explosion of her ship. Now with little fuel and dwindling resources, she finds her pod drifting in to a massive black hole. To bide the time she makes contact with another lone space explorer who is also trying to stave off loneliness. \u201cAlone\u201d is such a thoughtful and heartbreaking tale about being stuck in a hole and finding a will to live thanks to friendship and companionship. \u201cCradle\u201d from Damon Duncan is a sad but interesting tale of Eade, a fourteen year old girl that has spent her whole life on a space ship. After the disappearance of her mother, she\u2019s forced to save her father when an accident puts him in to a coma.<\/p>\n

As she ventures in to the computers anxiously trying to help her dad, seemingly lost camera footage reveals something about Eade\u2019s life she never expected. It\u2019s a marvelous short film with a great performance by Jaqueline Joe. \u201cLunatique\u201d from Gabriel Kalim Mucci is a beautiful film that sadly suffers from a climax that feels unfinished. That said it\u2019s very well realized and interesting tale that flips the script mid-way allowing us to garner a second glance at the world we\u2019ve been introduced to. With some great effects and costume work this is a nice bit of dystopian warfare. \u201cNew Mars\u201d from Susie Jones is a sweet tale of a civilization on Mars that is preparing to colonize and have taught the new generation to avoid \u201ctraps\u201d like emotional attachment and lust.<\/p>\n

But when Venus 7 forms affections for her friend Mars 3, she\u2019s forced to confront her feelings, especially as the mandatory \u201cpairings\u201d of couples looms. It\u2019s a well made and more minimalistic tale with a great commentary about how love is as natural as any other bodily function. The most high concept is \u201cAI-Pocalypse\u201d from Lin Sun is a great capper that pictures a world run by AI. When one of their androids Sonia garners a consciousness and attachment to her makers, she takes it upon herself to not only fix humanity, but correct it. \u201cAI-pocalypse\u201d is a beautifully made and fascinating take on the idea of Artificial Intelligence and if there\u2019s any difference being ruled by humans of androids nearing a human consciousness.<\/p>\n

\u201cTales from the Apocalypse\u201d is a marvelous compilation of pretty stellar science fiction short stories. I hope fellow genre fans look out for it.<\/p>\n

On Digital and DVD July 4th<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m shocked at how great \u201cTales from the Apocalypse\u201d was, and I say that as someone that loves a good apocalyptic yarn here and there. While I wouldn\u2019t be quick to compare it to \u201cTrick r Treat\u201d as the premise has explained, it manages to stand on its own two feet as\u00a0 great anthology filled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[103,104,302,501,703,794,865,906,1087],"class_list":["post-40239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-apocalypse","tag-drama","tag-indie-film","tag-mystery","tag-post-apocalypse","tag-robots","tag-science-fiction","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40241,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40239\/revisions\/40241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}