Being a zombie novelist (who isn’t these days, right!) I tend to watch a lot of zombie cinema. Most of it is a good example of what not to do. However I just watched a new zombie film, Exit Humanity, that is the exception to that rule.
Exit Humanity is set in the years just after the Civil War where Confederate Rebel Edward young returns home to find things a little on the undead side at home.
The bad (lets get it out of the way)
Brian Cox is top-billed in the film, although he is only the unseen narrator. The uniforms look too ‘fresh from the costume shop’ (and made of Gaberdene) for my tastes. The general is cliche and the lever-action 92 series rifles and Colt peacemakers are about 10-30 years too early for the film.
The good
Its a very well done piece of zombie horrror that stays with the watcher long after you see it. Its a refreshing look at an old-school could have been. In the end its haunting and visually well-done. Ive seen much higher budget zombie flicks that don’t tell a story 1% as good as this one.
Better yet, if you have Netflix its availible online for free!
Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
