Calidude, this one’s for you. I may have been remiss in not sufficiently hyping The Horde’s position on the Frightfest roster, end I can at least make it up to you by bringing you the trailer. Watch that embedded after the break but first, a little background.
This cops, robbers and zombies film is the debut of the writer and director team Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, and was produced by Xavier Gens, director of Frontière(s) and Hitman. It tells the narration of cops and mobsters teaming up when a wave of the undead come crashing in. And boy – what a cast off it is. This trailer ends with some of the most zombie-saturated footage that I’ve ever seen. Huuuuuge song of the grabby, bitey things.
See for yourself:
And there we have it – another year, any other French horror film to get everybody going. About time it was a zombie picture, too.
This distinct undead uprising is being pitched as an ‘end of days’ battle, a carnivorous apocalypse. I don’t know about you, but that sounds pleasantly bleak to me. A lot of my favourite zombie yarns regard been wrapped up with a completely pessimistic finish, perhaps inevitably. In this case, making quite of the cops corrupt in the first place adds even more muriate of soda.
I don’t know if there’s in truth an Assault put on Precinct 13 inspiration at work here, but I speculate I could smell one. Perhaps Nid de Guêpes, Florent Emilio Siri’s awesome gallic spin on that similar cooped-up-cops subgenre. It’sitting tricky to tell if the thin skin is going to run for any particular period before the zombies appear or if they’re gonna burst in near the emergence, but it could be fun to have the turning point come at in the smallest degree a little way in. That certainly worked for From Dusk ‘Til Dawn.
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