Howling and Yolanda's, feature length treatment, of their 2013 hit short of the same name. Same 7 minute short, plus 98 minutes of padding.
How this script got the nod, is a mystery. Also; Martin Freeman in the lead? He is a limited, tv calibre actor but he is surely above this type of nonsense?
Now, for the mind melting nature of the "padding".
The short was incredibly simple in its premise; An infected and dying father tries to secure safety for his infant daughter, in a zombie apocalypse.
He is so committed to this, that he even finds a way to use his own death as a means to ensure a future for his child.
Note; The short has absolutely zero hint of anything political. The film? Oh, boy!
The extra 98 minutes of padding, is your brain on Social Justice;
- Incidental Aboriginal Australian war parties saving humanity (I swear ta Gawd, I'm not making this up!) and led by, wait for it, war-painted Aboriginal female warrior? Check!
All "White Men", as slavers, kidnappers, rapists, weaklings, morons and farcically ineffectual protectors of their own families? Check!
(In fairness though, whitey gets the sexual equality treatment in genocide. All "White Women"in the film, fare no better than their men, as all are either diseased and dying or killed by their menfolk.
In other words; REDUNDANT.)
Aboriginal peoples, as only hope for survival of the dying White race? Check!
Probably sounds more like a political rant, than a film review at this stage. My apologies, chaps.
Just you try sitting through the fucker. Awful.
I'll be on the hunt for it.
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