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The Horde (2009)

Director: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher

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Fusing zombie apocalypse with gangster violence, French co-directors Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher trap a hit squad of four corrupt, vengeful white cops and a vicious, multi-racial drug gang in a deserted Parisian tower block surrounded by thousands of hungry, undead ghouls. The police were planning to take revenge for the murder of their colleague, but are forced to form a volatile alliance with their enemies, and bury the hatchet in some zombie flesh.

More of a relentless, action-packed thriller than a horror movie as such, ‘La Horde’ nevertheless features copious amounts of gruesome violence. A scantily-clad Claude Perron is chilling as the morally blank female cop Aurore, and there’s a darkly comic cameo by Alain Figlarz, as the building’s eccentric, ex-army caretaker. Whether the film does enough to earn its nihilistic ending is open to debate, but if we see the zombies as President Sarkozy’s dispossessed ‘scum’, rising up to take over the streets, this latest example of the French new wave of horror does at least have the Romero-like guts to address a topical social problem.

Author: Nigel Floyd

Time Out London Issue 2091: 16 – 22 September, 2010

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Robert said...

Posted on Jun 16 2011 06:44 Yet another 4 person unlikely team versus the Zombie Apocalypse of Unknown Origin. With absolutely no plot whatsoever except kill the zombies and don't get bit (yeah, yeah, we all know that already) My guess is the Zombies are actually angry movie-goers that actually paid money to watch this tripe trying to get their money, time and brain cells that were destroyed watching this, all returned to them.
If you're wasted and need a good laugh, enjoy, otherwise don't waste your time...

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