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Descendents (2008/Lionsgate DVD)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C     Extras: C     Film: C+

 

 

In the near future the earth has been decimated by an unknown virus, turn all into undead zombies. The surviving humans can only live in domed cities, armed militias in biosuits will shoot any found out in the open, but there only a handful of children who are immune and these children carry the hopes and fears of all...

 

Jorge Olguin’s Descendents (2008) revisits overly familiar territory.  Consider the following:  A young girl, Camille was born into a world of chaos.  She had only heard in stories of times when humans play outside.  Journeying with her mother she learns how to survive, to avoid humans who want to capture her, dissect and study her.  The children who were born immune the zombies would not attack them but instead protect them.  Camille has flashbacks of her mother telling her to find other children who are like her and make the journey to the sea where they would be safe.

 

This was a reverse zombie movie, it took the perspective of a young child.  The humans in the story were more monsters than the zombies, they would rather dissect and dismember reproductive organs to find a cure for themselves.  The film was in a constant different hue and had a fake CG sky line of a ruined city/world.  In the end reveal that the new generation of surviving children had blue skin and traveled to the sea because there was a gigantic zombie leviathan that would protect them.  At least they tried something different, but this genre is just too played out.

 

Extras include making of the film, trailers and music video.

 

 

-   Ricky Chiang


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