Exit Humanity (2011)

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A narrator (Brian Cox) reads a journal from the 19th century about the outbreak of the dead returning to life. It's 1865 Tennessee. Edward Young (Mark Gibson) is a Confederate soldier who encounters undead Union soldiers. Six years later, his home is attacked, his wife killed, and his son Adam goes missing. He finds him turned and has to destroy the body. He is in despair after losing everything. He finds Isaac in a desolate farmhouse.This small Canadian horror indie is too slow and too long. There isn't enough to justify the extended length. I can deal with the indie factor but it needs to be tighter. The lengthening of every scene strips away much of the needed intensity. I would also definitely eliminate reading the journal aspect. This concept of a zombie apocalypse in Civil War era is intriguing and could be compelling for an indie. The execution here is unable to make this good enough to seek out.

I haven't yet seen this film from beginning to end yet as it's always shown very late at night on British TV. What I have seen I've enjoyed but I don't think that it is primarily a Zombie movie, it is more a 'man against adversity' movie and the antagonists could have been bandits, deserters, native Americans, escaped slaves, degenerate backwoodsmen, almost anything. Of course the wife and son thing would have been problematical but not impossible. The one thing that let this movie down for me was the soundtrack. Either the copy that is being shown on British TV has a serious fault or else the film had the worst sound recordist in the history of film. As I said earlier this movie is only shown late at night so I have to watch it with the sound turned down and it is absolutely impossible to hear the narrative due to the background music overwhelming it - by about 40dB.

This film is serious, artful, and epic. Being a fan of zombies, I've seen my share of terrible movies just because they contain the walking dead. This is definitely not one of them.Exit Humanity is a story of redemption, rebirth, and the horrors that come from not the supernatural horrors stalking the hills of Tennessee, but of the cruelty of man and the poison that resides within.This film is the classic maturation/acceptance story. Far from the drek that is continually pumped out of the low budget horror genre in which people die gruesomely as the main plot device, Exit Humanity takes the concept that zombies are only the setting for the real storyline. What we are treated to is a deeper look into the characters and the lingering touch of haunting past deeds.We are presented with many thought-provoking instances and artistic licensing that reflects more enjoyment that the typical rend and tear zombie film. The ending scene is poetry, a mirror image, two sides of a coin, the paths of damnation and salvation catching briefly a glimpse of each other.This movie is beautiful and deserves nothing less than the highest rating. If you enjoy the heroic journey or the Freud/Jungian aspects of mythology given visual production, this is the movie for you.

This appeared to be a promising film, but I am unable to get past the first 15 minutes or so because the sound track is so dreadful, often with music and "FX" running loudly in the background.Where the technical people placed the microphones, I don't know, but this presentation is unforgivable.The narrator has a very low, mumbly voice ~~ to make matters worse.I give this film 4 out of 10, cannot be more generous I'm afraid. There is little more that I can add to make this review up to 10 lines, other than my absolute amazement at the stupidity of the producers in allowing this motion picture to be released as is. Yes, it had great promise, but it has been utterly ruined by the sound track and the MUMBLY voiced narrator who is overly-dramatic and sounds silly.