The film was effective, made a huge profit and launched a zombie genre onslaught that is still going to this day. Make no mistake, most zombie movies are complete trash. But there are some good ones that have been made in the wake of Snyder's remake, including George Romero himself with three films, and of course things like Zombieland, The Dead, and Shaun of the Dead.
But for every good one that has been made, there have been at least a dozen that fit the term hot garbage. The television show The Walking Dead was launched from its source material which was an excellent comic book. Even today some 19 years later, The Walking Dead (after it Spawned a spinoff a handful of years back), has belched three more spin offs as the original itself came to a close.
The Night Eats the World is an outstanding zombie film in a zombie era coming up on 20 years of primarily garbage. It’s the complete opposite of most zombie films. You don’t have a small or medium size group of survivors trying to find a way to live, or contact other survivors as they engage in action film pyrotechnics.
You do have a single survivor named Sam who wakes up alone, and though that did happen in 28 Days Later and even The Walking Dead for that matter, where it goes from there is a completely different direction. Sam, our lead, finds ingenius and creative ways to hole himself up in the apartment building that he’s in, and survive for a long time.
As a loner to begin with, Sam begins to question however, whether or not being alone is what he really wants now that he’s gotten the ultimate taste of it. I recommend this movie in a big way. If you’re into chewed flesh and gunplay, you’ll be disappointed. It’s a cerebral film that makes you think, and brings you to an ending that makes you think even harder.
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