Color me surprised when this movie is completely different than whatever reasonable expectation I had. Another movie trying to grab a piece of the Hunger Games crowd. I didn't really know what to expect prior to watching this, but I felt that part of me was probably expecting what I just talked about. That's clearly not fair to the film, but it is what it is. ![]() It's definitely a mixed bag, but the point is that I wouldn't be surprised if some people just didn't give this movie a chance based on what they thought it COULD be. With that said, I did see the trailer (just now) to confirm or deny whether or not it tried to play into this tropes associated with the YA post-apocalyptic genre and I don't know how well they manage to avoid giving in to them. I mean, really, I didn't see the trailer prior to watching this, but I imagine that it would be really easy for a lot, if not most, people to dismiss this as another YA post-apocalyptic type film, like The Hunger Games, Divergent, Maze Runner, among others. This same man attempts to get this young woman to join his community of people. Regardless, this same young woman meets a handsome man. They're talked about throughout the film, but they're never seen. ![]() Funny thing about this movie, though, is the fact that The Changed themselves are an unseen threat. ![]() And, of course, they refer to these creatures as something other than zombies, here they're called The Changed. Young teenage woman trying to survive the harsher new world that has been ravaged, seemingly, by war and some sort of disease that, invariably, changes people into zombie-like beings.
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