
Regi: Yannick Dahan, Benjamin Rocher
Skådespelare: Claude Perron, Jean-Pierre Martins, Eriq Ebouaney, Aurélien Recoing, Doudou Masta
imdb.com
Synopsis:
North of Paris. In order to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, corrupt cops four go on a rampage in a condemned building serving as the mobster's hideout. Now trapped, the officers are about to be executed when the unimaginable occurs: hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures invade the building, savagely attacking everyone. Unexpected alliances are made when their lives are threatened by the unthinkable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2f2y-boMJc&feature=player_embedded
Har visats på filmfestivaler runt om i världen. Play.com (UK) säger att den släpps 20 september på DVD så förhoppningsvis kommer även den svenska utgåvan inom en snar framtid.
Artikel på /Film:
The Horde Trailer
September 10th, 2010
The genre is not dead. I can categorically declare that there is some life left in this lifeless corpse of a subject many have said is well past its welcome. I’d say that with the advent of things like The Walking Dead and the fabulous Dead Set (starring a pretty spunky Jamie Winstone) from a couple of years ago there is still creativity to be mined here.
This trailer shows just how you get someone interested in a subtitled French film when you think long and hard about what it is that can get this demographics’ attention: guns, blood, and violence. Malevolence, really. I can’t really get any kind of meaningful, narrative footing, at all, when watching this trailer but that’s fine. When you really get down to it, unless this is going to be Harvey Weinstein’s latest Oscar push, it’s alright if the principal actors don’t open their mouths. It’s a great sleight of hand, really, as your head spins too fast to notice no one ever utters a word throughout the running time of this thing.
It doesn’t waste any time from the beginning with the dog who’s barking like a madman, the ski-masked thugs who are on one side of a door, some shotgun toting baddies on the other, a taut violin just screeching in the background, and then, bam, we see a pack of zombies locked in cages. It’s a split second but it’s long enough for you to do the dude math: guns + violence + no talking + crazed zombies in cages = good. You don’t question why there are zombies in a cage, not how someone put zombies in a cage or why someone’s keeping these zombies as pets. It just looks cool and Empire’s pull-quote only strengthens its value proposition.
From here it is just a flurry of ADD style direction with people running, zombies crunching, people fighting, ladies kicking, and a stylized line of guys with guns just unloading a hot hailstorm of lead into an advancing pack of bloodied, frenzied ghouls. Directors Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher ought to be proud of how close this looks to a film that could have been mistaken for a Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor production as this is the kind of movie that is just daring you to at least watch some of it.
Additionally, I know there is a debate about whether zombies should lumber or if they should be of the speedy Zack Snyder, Dawn of the Dead, variety. Myself, if zombies are a representation of mindless consumerism, as some have said, shouldn’t it follow that as the world’s social and commerce institutions have grown in speed so too should follow the zombies? I think so and I like the idea of Die Hard with brain eaters at the center of it. Yippie kai yay.
Edited by Synon, 30 September 2010 - 08:28.




