Sunday 6 February 2011

Ten Films 2010: The Horde



Everybody in The Horde is revolting. While Paris burns a team of plainclothes police raid a rotting tower block with the extracurricular intention of rubbing out a group of cop-killers. Captured and beaten, the group is then forced to team up with their vicious quarry when the sprinting dead appear. Although not particularly moral to begin with, the sky rise slaughterhouse brings out a poisonous venality in our survivors. Loyalties are reconfigured, then shed as ruthless personal safety becomes everybody's primary concern. Power shifts rapidly as the survivors struggle to fend off the berserker zombies and dangerous ego trips. The Horde is notable for inviting viewers to re-evaluate how they view the stampeding dead. Are they meat things to be gleefully pulped, or ex-humans we should pity?

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