New Life (2023)
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- Synopsis:
- Jess (Hayley Erin) is a woman on the run, desperate to cross the Canadian border to escape her past. On her tail is Elsa (Sonya Walger), a resourceful agent, whose recent life-altering diagnosis leaves her one step behind. As their chase narrows to the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, holes in Elsa's investigation begin to fill with fresh bodies. Soon the pursuit spirals toward its harrowing confrontation between the two women, in search of meaning and redemption, on the razor's edge of catastrophe.
- Actors:
- Sonya Walger, Hayley Erin, Tony Amendola, Jeb Berrier, Ayanna Berkshire, Betty Moyer, Blaine Palmer, Kevin-Michael Moore, Lisa Cross, Nick George, Colton Ruscheinsky, La Johnson, Tim Blough, Jeffrey Arrington, Dan Kyle
- Directors:
- John Rosman
- Producers:
- Mike Marchlewski, T. Justin Ross
- Writers:
- John Rosman
- Aka:
- Эпидемия. Новое заражение
- Genres:
- Horror, Thrillers
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Reviews (1) of New Life
Watchable Plague Carrier Pursuit Drama with Massively Hammy Over-acting - New Life review by PV
This is a bit like a B-Movie '28 DAYS LATER' with the latter the way superior film. The classic late 1970s TV drama SURVIVORS ploughs the same furrow as do later TV series, the Belgian CORDON being one of the best.
In the age of Covid, there are loads more 'plague' films. CONTAGION (2011) more or less predicts the Covid 19 pandemic complete with lockdown. THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN was Michael Crichton's early hit novel from 1969, about a virus from outer space, a film consequently directed by Robert Wise. THE BLOB is a highly entertaining a late 50s version of the same.
This is like a TV movie really, with a low budget, set in rural small town America and it includes THE most massive hammy over-acting I have seen for years in this, which is worth watching for the hysterics and screams!
Like most movies now, the main leads are all female, the baddies and clueless people all male. Sigh. I think (white) men are banned from lead roles in such movies post-metoo. Now there's sexism!
I loved the credits, BIG letters for once, top deign. Not sure why the Bob Dylan song is so significant. Maybe the director just liked it?
2.5 stars rounded up.