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The Battery (2012)

Horror | 101 minutes
2,52 100 votes

Genre: Horror / Drama

Duration: 101 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Jeremy Gardner

Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim and Alana O'Brien

IMDb score: 6,2 (11.213)

Releasedate: 13 October 2012

The Battery plot

"In a land ravaged by the undead, Ben and Mickey must learn to survive... each other."

In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey struggle to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outsmart the batter, the batter. The batter in this case is synonymous with the zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey regularly disagree about the course to be followed.

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Insignificance

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Super slow zombies with zero threat. Made for $6,000, shot mostly freehand and two guys to carry the film. They do surprisingly well. Two different characters where the interaction between them plays a bigger role than the presence of the undead. Everything at a calm pace and quite fascinating for a long time. The fire is somewhat stoked when it appears that more people are surviving. After that it feels like Gardner overplays his hand a bit. His film could have been shorter, but it doesn't die out completely either. This way the lock still has effect. Perhaps just a little too little to be really memorable, although it has a scene that can just linger. The One Pitch Bitch isn't just scared.

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Onderhond

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Blergh.

The zombie scene has already been chewed out, this film also deletes the interesting elements and leaves a lot of nonsense. You get two slackers strolling around in a deflated world, that's pretty tricky to make interesting. Gardner does not succeed at all, on the contrary.

A lot of the work falls on the shoulders of the main actors, but they are both insufferable. Bad acting and annoying dialogues ensure that the drama does not take shape for a meter. The humor doesn't really get through either, leaving mostly irritation.

The direction is just as tame, the zombies are few and far between and look cheap, the film is barely moving forward and drags to its end. If there is a bit of action then, it's cutting and pasting from other films. It's nice to try something different, but then you also have to have the talent for it. That is completely missing here.

Nah, nasty movie.

1.0*

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Shadowed

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Sympathetic but somewhat bare addition to the horror genre. Fortunately, Gardner knows that zombies are relatively exhausted and therefore aims for more obscure elements. The film mainly seeks it psychologically and is less concerned with suspense. That is of course not a problem, but make sure that the scarce horror that you put in it actually works. Director Gardner works slowly and fails to communicate the seriousness or threat of the situation for a moment. It may be said that the protagonists Gardner and Cronheim do a more than creditable job. Carrying almost the entire film together. I also liked the ending and the film doesn't really stop anywhere. Still, especially for a film like this, as a director you have to dare to take risks. That hardly happens in The Battery. So you look at something that is quite distinctive, but you never really dare to unpack. It's always a shame when a movie like this comes to an end, but oh well.

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