2009 · horror · action · thriller
Against the Dark
Directed by Richard Crudo1h 33m2009
When most of the population of Earth is infected by a virus and transformed into flesh eaters and blood drinking creatures, a group of hunters lead by Tao and his sword chase the vampire zombies to eliminate them. Six non-infected survivors try to find the exit of an abandoned hospital crowded of the infected creatures. Meanwhile, the military is ready to bomb the whole area.
Our read: Against the Dark (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive horror · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / action, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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