Rent Die Alone (2024)

Ok Zombie Film - Die Alone review by GI

Highly derivative but somewhat absorbing zombie film that riffs on similar films such as 28 Days later (2002), Annihilation (2018) and the Tv series The Last Of Us and utilises amnesia as a narrative tool in a similar way to Memento (2000). This Canadian production tries to take the virus induced zombie narrative and add an interesting twist. A young man, Ethan (Douglas Smith) wakes up in a crashed car but has no memory of how he got there only that he was with his girlfriend Emma (Kimberley-Sue Murray), who his now missing. He finds he's in a post apocalyptic countryside and is taken in by Mae (Carrie-Anne Moss), a confident woman who has survived. But heading off, despite her advice, to look for Emma he discovers there are corpses that have intertwined with trees and plants roaming around needing human flesh. Only Mae can give him the answers he needs. There's a cleverish twist that you'll probably work out before it's revealed but the film lacks any real shocks, horror or nastiness despite an attempt to deliver a different type of zombie albeit The Last Of Us is a clear influence on this. It's a B movie horror flick that has some entertainment value but overall it's a film that doesn't take the genre much further.