The Human Race - Watch this film is you like to see heads exploding

Have you seen ‘Scanners?’ Did you like the bit when the head explodes?  If you answered ‘Yes’ to that then you should definitely watch ‘The Human Race.’ It’s a film primarily about people’s heads exploding (occasionally interspersed with the odd pick-axe through someone’s neck).  However, what little ‘story’ there is when brains aren’t flying towards the camera, concerns a seemingly random group of people who get spirited away from their everyday lives, only to find themselves part of a twisted and lethal game where they have to race each other... or their heads explode.

Think ‘Battle Royale’ or ‘The Cube.’ It’s kind of like that (only with more exploding heads).
And, believe it or not, it’s actually quite good.  Yes, there isn’t much of a budget; what little money went into making this film was primarily spent on blood flying from holes in people’s necks.  Naturally, they couldn’t afford and big names either, but it’s still quite a fun little sci-fi/survival-horror film to watch.  Any negative criticism that it seems to have attracted centres around a ‘lack of story.’ Yes, there’s not much of a story, but there was there much of a story in Battle Royale?  There’s only so much of a story you can build around eighty people who have to force each other’s head to explode in order to survive.

If you like your films short, sweet and filled with decapitated bodies, then give this one a go.

And remember... keep off the grass.

8/10 The Force is definitely strong with this one