ZOMBIE MOVIES – The End? (2017)

The End? is an Italian language Zombie Horror film with a straight forward premise:

Claudio Verona is a young and cynical businessman. One day he gets locked in his office elevator before an important meeting with a client, and this annoying obstacle turns into a nightmare. For outside that metal cage, a deadly virus has begun to infect and transform people into extremely violent and dangerous zombies.

Rai Cinema
The End?

Spoilers Below

Claudio is a shmuck. The End? makes that very clear in the first fifteen minutes. Claudio is a high powered businessman and an ass. Claudio cheats on his wife. He treats the working class people around him horribly. When Claudio finds himself stuck in an elevator while the Zombie horde rages through the building it does seem like a bit of karma.

The action takes a little while to get going. Thankfully the action starts around the 22:30 minute mark.

Marta Dies

Marta finds Claudio. Claudio is hopefull he might be saved, at least until Marta gets dragged off screen. The Zombies are in the building! This quickly leads to the sub story of Claudio’s wife who is at home as someone bangs at her door.

Claudio then loses his cool. He screams and yells in panic. While I get that Claudio would be scared out of his mind, I don’t get screaming and yelling while there are Zombies trying to eat you just outside the elevator. Maybe try to draw less attention to yourself? Even worse, try not to turn your back on the opening to take a call.

Marta Dies Again

At this point there is a good bit of gore, but there is also still an hour left in the movie and I’m curious how the next sixty minutes are going to play out. I am happy to see Claudio finally learned a lesson when he sees another survivor, and instead of screaming does a bit of whispering instead.

Several other survivors come, go. The zombies make quick work of them before a police officer shows up and gives Claudio some real hope – and a gun.

With a bit of help from his new fellow survivor Claudio eventually makes it out of the elevator. The city has been overrun, but there are still survivors. The ending was good, and avoided one major trope, which gave it points in my book.

The End? Scoring

So how did it do overall? The End? scores a 64/100, putting it at the higher end of the “Rainy Day Movie” scale. What cost it points? The End? didn’t really break any new ground, but the special effects were good and the acting was above par. The movie is in Italian, so it is subtitled, but it is still worth watching.

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#Alive2020100Action / Infection
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I Am Legend (2007)200780Action / Infection
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Z Nation, Season 2, Episode 12

Party with the Zeros is the first of a two part story.

The episode has a strong start. There is a nice zombie fight scene that lasts a few minutes. Including a very nice “doorway clearing”.

That is then followed by a nice run and gun sequence. The run and gun sequence eventually leads to Team Murphy being saved by the Zeros.

I would describe Party with the Zeros as a set up to the 2nd part. After the initial action, the episode becomes a story about Vasquez. We learn why he wants revenge against the Zeros so badly. They killed his family. Meanwhile Murphy is forced to “work” with the Dr. Walter Kurian, aka, Dr. Death. Dr. Kurian is apparently stringing along the leaders of the Zeros, promising a cure.

While in the heart of the Zeros headquarters Vasquez tries to kill Hector Alvarez, aka “Escorpion” for what he did to his wife, but Warren stops him, gaining the trust of the Zeros.

The episode ends with Vasquez about to get a bullet in the brain.

Party with the Zeros Scoring

I’m giving Party with the Zeros a 64 as after the initial action it slows down and set up the cliffhanger ending, putting it in Rainy Day territory.

SeasonEpisodeEpisode NameScore
11Puppies and Kittens95
12Fracking Zombies80
13Philly Feast80
14Full Metal Zombie81
15Home Sweet Zombie75
16Resurrection Z81
17Welcome to the Fu-Bar83
18Zunami64
19Die Zombie Die… Again29
110Going Nuclear79
111Sisters Of Mercy82
112Murphy's Law80
113Doctor of the Dead91
21The Murphy90
22White Light81
23Zombie Road90
24Batch 4760
25Zombaby85
26Zombie Baby Daddy86
27Down The Mississippi87
28The Collector63
29Rozwell69
210We Were Nowhere Near the Grand Canyon72
211Corporate Retreat85
212Party with the Zeros64
213Adiós, Muchachos69
214Day 190
215All Good Things Must Come to an End 94
31No Mercy90
32A New Mission77
33Murphy's Miracle80
34Escorpion and the Red Hand70
35Little Red and the Wolfz79
36Doc Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest73
37Welcome to Murphytown 67
38Election Day80
39Heart of Darkness70
310They Grow Up So Quickly85
311Doc’s Angels70
312The Siege of Murphytown70
313Duel90
314Everybody Dies in the End70

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Z Nation, Season 1, Episode 8

Zunami picks up a little bit after Welcome to the Fu-Bar ends. Addy and Mack are off on their own, and Team Murphy is stranded, out of gas, out of water, and starting to suffer from dehydration, all while the massive Zunami is about to come down on top of them.

The Zombie Horde is Migrating

While Team Murphy struggles to survive the horde, Citizen Z struggles with a gas leak, which his subconscious tries desperately to help him realize.

Team Murphy is forced hide in a morgue’s cold room, while Warren is left to survive in a body bag.

We also see just how deep Murphy’s darkness is. He steals water from a woman and child to give to his group, which almost sounds like tough as nails survival, but then then he opens the door to let the woman and girl get eaten by their zombified husband and father. Taking the water might have been “okay”, but killing them just shows how deeply disturbed Murphy is.

Zunami Scoring

There honestly weren’t any great Zombie Kills this episode, let me know if you disagree. This, and the fact that the episode was more suspense than action cost it points for me. I scored it a 64/100, putting in the Rainy Day territory. The first of the season.

SeasonEpisodeEpisode NameScore
11Puppies and Kittens95
12Fracking Zombies80
13Philly Feast80
14Full Metal Zombie81
15Home Sweet Zombie75
16Resurrection Z81
17Welcome to the Fu-Bar83
18Zunami64
19Die Zombie Die… Again29
110Going Nuclear79
111Sisters Of Mercy82
112Murphy's Law80
113Doctor of the Dead91
21The Murphy90
22White Light81
23Zombie Road90
24Batch 4760
25Zombaby85
26Zombie Baby Daddy86
27Down The Mississippi87
28The Collector63
29Rozwell69
210We Were Nowhere Near the Grand Canyon72
211Corporate Retreat85
212Party with the Zeros64
213Adiós, Muchachos69
214Day 190
215All Good Things Must Come to an End 94
31No Mercy90
32A New Mission77
33Murphy's Miracle80
34Escorpion and the Red Hand70
35Little Red and the Wolfz79
36Doc Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest73
37Welcome to Murphytown 67
38Election Day80
39Heart of Darkness70
310They Grow Up So Quickly85
311Doc’s Angels70
312The Siege of Murphytown70
313Duel90
314Everybody Dies in the End70