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During the last 10-20 years, the zombie horror sub-genre has been beaten to death (no pun intended) by filmmakers and studios with great and not so great results. From the horrific to the comical, from the endless thrills of Train to Busan to the seemingly interminable Walking Dead, and its spin-offs.
Despite this long parade of films, series, and short films, it is fun to still find some efforts that don't try to reinvent the wheel, but are still effective to some extent. That is the case of this short film from Icelandic filmmaker Ómar Örn Hauksson. Undying Love is a fairly simple short about a lonely man (Hilmir Jensson) trying to survive in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.
At roughly 12 minutes, it's hard to talk about it without spoiling anything, but I'll just say that it was fairly well made, and well acted. With that little time, Jensson does a solid job conveying all the mixture of emotions that his character goes through. It might not bring the genre back to life, but it sure gives it a jolt.
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UNDYING LOVE
(2011, Hauksson)
A film from Iceland
(2011, Hauksson)
A film from Iceland
"You have to eat, darling"
During the last 10-20 years, the zombie horror sub-genre has been beaten to death (no pun intended) by filmmakers and studios with great and not so great results. From the horrific to the comical, from the endless thrills of Train to Busan to the seemingly interminable Walking Dead, and its spin-offs.
Despite this long parade of films, series, and short films, it is fun to still find some efforts that don't try to reinvent the wheel, but are still effective to some extent. That is the case of this short film from Icelandic filmmaker Ómar Örn Hauksson. Undying Love is a fairly simple short about a lonely man (Hilmir Jensson) trying to survive in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.
At roughly 12 minutes, it's hard to talk about it without spoiling anything, but I'll just say that it was fairly well made, and well acted. With that little time, Jensson does a solid job conveying all the mixture of emotions that his character goes through. It might not bring the genre back to life, but it sure gives it a jolt.
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