Review of Stake Land (2010) by Teddy B — 19 Dec 2011
The Road meets Dawn of the Dead. This is a zombie/vampire post apocalypse road movie with affecting characters and haunting images with blood, brains and heart. It has created an impressive, immersive world with ferocious set-pieces.
The melancholy feel reclaims the form for the low-budget, art-exploitation era, think Mad Max. The cast is great with upcoming horror queen Danielle Harris as a pregnant teen, Kelly McGillis makes a surprise return as a middle-aged nun and writer Nick Damici as Mister, cool as the late Charles Bronson.
It's a good little genre piece with style and vision and where its monsters are proper vampires. A key scene is where vampires are dropped like bombs from the sky in one showstopper. It's highly promising with plot developments that surprise, an unusually full-blooded genre mash, edgy rather than slick, and well worth a look.
The Motherland may be doomed, but the future of spineless filmmaking looks very bright indeed.
This review of Stake Land (2010) was written by Teddy B on 19 Dec 2011.
Stake Land has generally received positive reviews.
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