The Horde - Meanwhile... in France

If you've seen the British zombie film '28 Weeks Later' you'll probably know what I mean by the title. Basically, `The Horde' is Frances answer to Britain's 28 Days Later franchise. It's almost as if it's set in the same world (and possibly the same world where Germany's `Siege of the Dead' and America's 2004 remake of `Dawn of the Dead' is set).

If you've seen any of the above films, you'll probably know what to expect - running zombies (no `Romero shufflers' here!) and shaky camerawork, depicting a dark, violent and gritty take on zombie lore. Here we meet a quartet of Parisian police officers who are taking the law into their own hands by storming a run-down tower block in order to execute some drug dealers who murdered a colleague of theirs. Sadly, all does not go according to plan, as the night they pick to exact their retribution, the undead start their rise from the grave. We never find out the cause of the outbreak, only witness the effects, as the cops and `robbers' have to band together to survive.

It's a pretty claustrophobic atmosphere we have here. 99% of the entire film is set within the dilapidated tower block. It's violent, it's nasty and it's effectively 28 Weeks Later - the Aftermath.

If you haven't had your fill of zombie movies (and can put up with the French subtitles - also, I've watched it dubbed and that's not so bad either) then give this one a go - it's pretty good.

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that