2012 · action · horror · thriller
Rise of the Zombies
Directed by Nick Lyon1h 30m2012
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heroes are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
Our read: Rise of the Zombies (2012) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / horror, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- cold
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