![]() ![]() The latter viewed an undead attack through the eye of a home video camera and treated the result as "found footage" - a great post-"Blair Witch" embellishment, considering how much of horror's effectiveness lies in what you don't see. ![]() Such an approach might have yielded the first fresh contribution to the zombie picture since "Rec". ![]() I've never read Brooks' book and don't have any immediate plans to, but the notion of telling this tale in a roundabout way, by having survivors of the conflagration sit there and talk to an unseen cameraperson-perhaps against a plain black background, with or without cutaways to still photographs or "news video"-is electrifying to consider. I'm sorry, but before we take this movie apart, let's take a closer look at that last phrase: "oral history of a zombie apocalypse." Those six words tell you everything this film gave up by going in a conventional direction.
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