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Excellent but underrated film

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I'm not as enthusiastic about this film as other reviewers here are, though the low overall rating shows I'm not alone in my feelings. Part of the problem was that I guessed the "reveal", the twist, early on. It was pretty well telegraphed, if you paid attention to the start of the movie. As short as the movie was, I actually started to get bored with it at about the 1 hour mark, probably because of that.One thing I didn't quite understand, though. At the end of the movie, the daughter sees the sunrise and says, "302 days", since they were counting the number of days they had been in hiding, and the mother replies "Not 'days'". Maybe I'm reading too much into it, looking for some deeper meaning. I guess it's as simple as she meant they preferred the dark over daylight, since they were hiding from the "Breathers". And because of, well, that other thing?

We follow a father a mother and a daughter hidden in a bomb shelter near a school. They hide from what they call The creatures/the breathers. What matters most is survival. They've made it for 301 days so far is not willing to give up now. The bomb shelter is now their home, and whole world and hey've made a set of rules in order to survive, which later will be less ambiguous. Towards the middle of the film it gets more interesting when we finally get to see a glimpse of "the breathers" big black shapes with glowing yellow eyes, you get the feeling that they're either some sort of werewolf or Zombie. But little did we know they're the military with night vision goggles. And the real threat is actually the family and the rest of the people hidden in the town. Now the set of rules are explained, why they must keep calm is because otherwise they'll trigger the virus and become a zombie, I'd compare it to the HULK. They've outsmarted the virus and learned a way to control it, so when they trigger it and become crazy zombies they can defend what ever threat is coming their way and then go back to being normal, and I would assume that's why they believe they deserve to live and not get slaughtered by the military. You're giving clues throughout the movie about the twist, but you never get time to let it sink in and puzzle it together, but once you get to the end it gets all clear, which I really like about it. It's a new take on the virus/zombie genre, that I think any zombie lover would like.

So I am really starting to dislike these movies that are so poorly lit, it's difficult to see what's happening on the screen. Unfortunately this movie is full of scenery so dark it makes me want to adjust the brightness of my TV, which I know doesn't need adjustment based on the day time scenes. As far as the twist goes, I've pretty much guessed that based on the "we're different"speech mommy gave. It reminded me of a similar bit of dialogue from the movie "the others" which had a similar twist. To be honest the movie isn't bad, I got it as part of a multipack of horror movies, but I'll probably only watch this the one time and eventually forgot I even own it.

Chills and suspense from directors and writers, The Duff Brothers (Matt and Ross). Things change suddenly for a North Carolina family; Ray (Alexander Skardgard), Claire (Andrea Riseborough) and daughter Zoe (Emily Alyn Lind), being forced to take their average existence to the refuge of a fallout shelter; and there they will be for 301 days. That devastating day leaves them with memories, but there is also the fear of what may be looming above the surface. They have managed to stay hidden; but that day has finally come that their safe haven has been breached. Oh yes; there is something out there and it wants in! Surviving takes on a stronger meaning.