While this is all pretty predictable in terms of the script, "La Horde" does manage to entertain by ensuring that its audience never gets bored. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned: first, their quarry, gangster Adewale (Eriq Ebouaney), is able to get the drop on them, and start torturing them, then this big mess becomes an even bigger one when scores upon scores of the living dead start to overwhelm humanity, as the apocalypse seems to have begun. (Not that it skimps in the gore department at all, though, far from it.) A quartet of detectives - Aurore (Claude Perron), Ouessem (Jean-Pierre Martins), Jimenez (Aurelien Recoing), and Tony (Antoine Oppenheim), find the dead body of a colleague and turn rogue, vowing to avenge his death. It benefits from its breakneck pace and intensity, and is just as much about character as it is bloodshed. The French film "La Horde" doesn't exactly bring a fresh approach to the over saturated zombie genre, yet is still entertaining enough for what it is. Reviewed by Hey_Sweden 7 / 10 Routine but enjoyable. Claude Perron's fight scenes are especially entertaining. The visual effects and choreography are excellent.
Though the film is not utterly humorless, it stops well short of comedy, and carries its plot admirably. The script is, though predictable, a lot less absurd than the usual horror film, and never insults your intelligence. Most of the characters actually have their own personalities and the acting is good.
Romero's more serious efforts, I have rarely seen a zombie film which was created with the level of TLC that went into The Horde. The Horde, though redolent with the usual genre-defining campiness and cliché, is not a self-parody, and does not bother to explain itself.Īside from Mr. Don't be fooled by the complete absurdity of this premise. Inexplicably, zombies are destroying civilization, and Paris is burning. As the torture, interrogation, and killing of police slowly reaches an apex, it becomes apparent that the cops and gangsters should probably be the least of each other's worries. They lead a seemingly suicidal, unsanctioned, raid on the gang's compound and are almost immediately captured. Recommended for those who have been waiting for an independent horror film which does not simply make fun of the genre.Ī team of angry Parisian police officers vow revenge against a gang lead by two Nigerian brothers who have recently killed a friend of theirs. Not recommended for fans of typical zombie films. Reviewed by mstomaso 6 / 10 Much better than it deserved to be
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