At a military lab besieged by zombie-like “hungries,” a team of scientists and soldiers experiment on children infected by the fungus that creates the hungries to try to find a cure. The lab is overrun and a small group of survivors flees with one of the children reluctantly in tow; in the post-apocalyptic landscape overrun with hungries, a terrifying vision of the future emerges.
This is a nice entry in the zombie apocalypse genre, with an interesting take on the cause of zombieism (a fungal infection similar to Ophiocordyceps unilateralis), some strong characters (particularly the girl Melanie), and a thought-provoking ending. It clearly owes a debt to “Day of the Dead,” but its characters are less black-and-white, and the acting is quite a bit better. While there are certainly credulity gaps, as in all such movies, the logic of the infection and responses to it holds together surprisingly well, and the ending is certainly surprising and satisfying.