The whole premise of this film is quite interesting. You've got to see the film in order to properly appreciate what its trying to capture. The film was primarily shot at Three Caves, an abandoned quarry, in Huntsville, Alabama. Additional filming was done in Fayetteville, Tennessee. Director Jim Torres, who did a horror film short in 2001 for SadoMannequin actually did go ahead and win the Robert Rodriquez Award at the Hollywood MiniDV festival for this film in 2008. However, with that said, you pretty much would have had to actually have a real bomb go off 20 years ago for Hollywood to actually get this bad again. 20 years after the world comes to an end, Sarah (Azura Skye) is pregnant and about to give birth to the first baby in 15 years. She is pursued by people who want her baby, and she tries to find the mysterious voice on the radio Michael (Joshua Leonard), who could help her. It makes no sense whatsoever that this woman would actually just walk out into an abandoned city just to have a baby unless she was respectfully being tortured by her mother or some other family member because of her unfortunate pregnancy. Supposedly, it was told that she was forced from her basement home by drought and those that relentlessly pursue her because they want her baby. Why? For food? Sarah crosses paths with Michael in a cavernous, underground refuge of disparate survivors. Any science fiction premise just doesn't work here. Whatever happened 20 years ago is certainly not made clear in relation to why people can not have children. The impetus for a Sci-fi slant is totally cut off at the knees and is never even partially explained as to what happened beyond some sort of limited nuclear war. I could live with that sort of premise, that nobody knew what really happened, however the landscape in the film just didn't look that half bad, even at the end when they got to the city. I suppose it was meant to be ironic that the woman, who wanted not to have her baby in a cave or basement ended up giving birth in an underground parking garage. Somehow it turned out more believable that production couldn't afford any other set. The film actually does establish a sense of mood, however its a sense like you feel when you are partially interested in watching something but your eyes keep shutting and you get all tired even though the music and the film has spawned your interest, but because you took your Ambian, the feeling of mood soon becomes deep sleep and you wake up around 4:00 with the beginning intro cycle waking you up after playing for several hours. It is from Three Caves that Michael and Sarah will embark on a journey beyond the boundaries of the Southern Corridor and into the unknown future. The existential feel of this film is culminated at the blue bottle tree were the visuals were extremely stunning. Cinematography was purposely unpolished, which in my opinion, was a plus. Good acting rescued this film, no stiffness or pandering to the camera. Sara is specifically very convincing & easy to empathize with. The film was quite original in a simple way, is was not a typically post-apocalyptic mess. No radiation freaks, no scantily clad bikini babes, no dune-buggy rally, no mad-max thunder-dome stuff. Sometimes the simpler, the better, & that is what won it a 3/5 The clown jester-doctor was quite annoying as well as the character of all character developments that went nowhere and made you wonder what this clown did before the bomb.Read full review
I thought this one was well done . I wish they would come out with a movie showing the people having to use things to make other things.. Dealing more with their own survival then fighting . but all and all i liked it
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