for a lesser known zombie flick this is not bad at all. it's got a couple kills that are entertaining, but the plot is pretty lukewarm and the characters are--for the most part--unlikable and idiotic. if you like zombie flicks watch it, if only, because there's nothing else around these days.
Not entirely dissimilar to [Rec], but there are no innocents here. The survivors who have to work together to survive are a group of corrupt cops, a gang of drug dealers, and a half-crazy Vietnam vet (and if you know when France pulled out of Vietnam, you know that he's not exactly a young man). Plays nicely off the various social problems in immigrant-heavy areas, and adds some quite convincing ultraviolence... well-made, recommended to zombie buffs, but perhaps not unmissable.
Oui, I style myself a connoisseur of les films du zombie, but even extended sequences of a ripped female cop kicking the z out of a zombie bitch (her choice of derogatory term, not mine) and a muscular giant screaming "I am a fucking Nigerian, you bastard," while repeatedly slamming a guy's head into the wall couldn't save this low budget attempt at action/horror that takes all the bad things about American movies and melds them with all the crap I hate about French ones.
There's a couple of things I thought everyone knew by now, when it comes to zombie-encounters. First, if you see one(or many) you don't stand in awe waiting to see if someone is capable of breaking the glass separating you and them, and secondly you aim for the head, you don't riddle their torso with bullets....and don't get me started on that, let's say bitch although the c-word is more accurate, of a female lead.....pluspoints, if few, for some nice zombie-beatdowns.
Lighting is a problem in this movie. Half the cool kills you cant see anything. The characters are not people you want to cheer for. And, for those two flaws this movie suffers alot..the ending is kinda decent..but all in all...watch 28 weeks later way better
Very weak all-over. Terrible characters you won't give two shits about, messy and amateurish camera movement and editing which removes what little suspense there was, repetitive action in the same grimy corridor sets. Zombies are being dispatched by headbutting them. I just... I don't... God I need a drink.
The effects were good but other than that this is mediocre at best. The editing during the attacks is atrocious, the quick jarring edits that this film uses doesn't make the action more intense and exhilarating like it's suppose to, it instead just makes the action confusing and sloppy. It'd be much better if the editor didn't have a shit fit making this. I hate French horror movies, but whoops I somehow ended up watching this.
La Horde is another uncompromising movie from france that´s characterized by massy violence and gore compareable to frontiers, high tension or martyrs. the flimsy story is illogical and stupid, but la horde scores will some well paced action szenes, and great effects. therefore only recommendable for horror and splatter fans.
I wasn't keen on the camera work in this film, as I was often confused as to what exactly I was looking at during zombie scenes. Other then that, La Horde has a fantastic conclusion, and the effects are great.
A most brutal zombie film. Much along the lines of the original Doom 2, and Ultimate Doom which various members of cast and crew credit for inspiration. It shows, and any true fan of the games should watch this film. THIS is what DOOM the movie could have been.
Très bonne surprise. Un poil superficiel, pas d'explications superflues, un peu trop de ralentis inutiles. Mais quels bons personnages, de bonnes répliques, une bonne pêche et du défouirallage en règle bien gore. Que demande le peuple ?