exlibrislarsen

The Collapsed: “Shocking, fearful quality.”

There are two prevailing opinions of post-apocalyptic  stories. The first is that they are part of a tired, played-out meme, and the  second is that they are well-established genre pieces tracing their lineage  back to Mary Shelly’s 1826 novel, The Last Man.  Neither  opinion is wrong any more than it’s right. It all depends on the quality of a given work—and that’s just what you get with Justin McConnell’s The  Collapsed. Quality. Shocking, fearful quality.

A week removed from the utter and unexplained collapse of  civilization, Scott Weaver (John Fantasia) leads his wife, son and daughter  through the wreckage of the urban center they called home. His hope is to lead them to…

Read the rest of the review at TheHorrorZine.com.

This entry was posted on August 24, 2011 at 9:49 am and is filed under Movie Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.