Hello all and welcome the last day of the Eurozombie Week
and thankfully I managed to find a gem in all this muck. Yes after a bit of research into the subject
matter I can honestly say I have found a Eurohorror zombie film that is easily
better than Zombie Lake and Oasis of the Zombies. I knew it was out there and
all I had to do was wade hip deep in the depths of mediocrity and the movie
appeared like a beacon of hope to the genre.
So strap on…your pistols. Grab
some food and booze of course and welcome to the night that knows little to no
end. This is La Horde.
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| Filthy Jacque won't stand for this. |
Kim: This is spoiler
Jimmy, we don’t have to do this…
Our movie opens with a bit of CGI drama laid ruins and a
bald headed man roaming about, following up with the flashback sequence of the
rest of the movie. Yes it is a bit of a cliché
film starter but it does pick up. A crew
of crooked cops plans to hit these ruthless gang bangers for blowing away one
of their own. Their badges mean nothing
on this aggressive vigilante act and they full well know it. They are not looking for the law but good
old fashion street justice. Our boys pimp slap their boys, fights of gun
and fist break out in this building the bangers are holding up in.
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| Man, Black Fridays are brutal! |
Meanwhile outside of this building; explosions are seen and
heard, sirens are screeching and insane garbled rabble is running about the
streets. You know, Black Friday in the
states. Our cops and robbers stop their
reindeer games long enough to find out what is going on outside and are
terrified to see the very building they are in is under siege (starring
Steven Segal) a giant mob of the flesh rendering zombies. Our collective groups have to team up to fend
the zombies off long enough to find an exit from the building. Just
a reminder to those curious that this film is insanely graphic, a large grab
bag of gore gags, some fast paced camera and editing so photophobics may want
to bow out now. Also these are not your
Romero disarrayed zombies ambling along and stumble on a fleeing human
zombie. These suckers are adrenaline
fueled, fast clip moving uber zombies that claw, tear and rend anything and
everything until they get their bellies full of that sweet delicious
flesh. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
I had a quick few highlights about the film and crew. Our director/writer/actor Yannick Dahan pulled off his very first
full-length film with impressive hand held work, dolly tracked hallways and
even a few crane shots for scope. His
best friend writer/ documenter Arnaud
Bordas (Maniac: Carnage culte, Our New Wave and CinemApocalypse) forged
a series of vapid expressions and stale sayings with overdone concepts and
still manage to produce a horrific vision of desperation, human frailty and
uneasy alliances for self-preservation. While the fullness of the impeding apocalypse
was not rendered as well as I would have liked it to be, the movie does
establish mass hysteria, rioting and utter chaos brought to us by this wave of
undead.
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| Soo...cocktails gonna happen or what? |
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