Extinction (2015)

Here's the thing. For some reason a great deal of critics didn't enjoy this movie but me, I thought it was awesome.

Here's why - it's not a fast paced one it's not epic, also thankfully it's not found footage.

Extinction draws influence from various sources. There's a great deal of "I Am Legend" about it - last few people on earth struggling to survive while threatened by flesh eating mutant-zombies.

Add to this "The Descent" - where the beasts evolve yet are blind and rely only on hearing to hunt.

Finally season with a dash of George A.Romero style - where we never find out how or why these zombie creatures came to be, yet the focus of the movie is the human interaction between the isolated survivors. In fact there are elements (and I'd even lay money on a wink) to almost all of Romero's classics.

Our main guy, the doctor from Lost and his neighbour were attacked by the first wave of zombie-mutants nine years previous to the film's main setting but since then (adding into the mix the neighbours daughter) they live metres from each other not speaking as something happened between them to cause an unforgivable rift. They live in isolation, leaving only to hunt or scavenge. The daughter has never gone further than the fence surrounding her house.

This all changes when the mutants that the survivors had believed to be wiped out, but have just been waiting and growing stronger, start to approach their stronghold.

What follows is a human story set in a zombified environment, as more is revealed we start to understand just why the two men live as they do.

Great gore, great jumps, some feely scenes and a fantastic cast.

Blink and you'll miss it moment:  a brilliant touch near the start where our hero is riding through the frozen, abandoned town. He passes a cinema that was showing "At The Mountains Of Madness". A movie adaptation of this H.P Lovecraft classic has been in the works for a while now, maybe we will be seeing it sooner than we think.

8/10 Masks