Post-apocalyptic thrillers don’t come much leaner or meaner than Northern Irish director Stephen Fingleton’s gripping debut feature The Survivalist. The world’s population has polluted the earth to the point of extinction – a fact snappily brokered by an opening graph comparing increasing oil production to a rapid decline in the worldwide population – with the few survivors living off the scraps that the land provide. Our rugged unnamed hero (Martin McCann) lives in a rural shack surrounded by woodland, spending his days growing crops in his garden and whiling away his time looking over photos of his past, presumably long dead, wife.
Naturally, this being a post-apocalyptic world, there are roving marauders, though our hero’s garden is fertilized with the bodies of those he’s successfully fended off. He has his suspicions when teenager Milja (Mia Goth) and her mother Kathryn (Olwen Fouéré) arrive at his doorstep to ask for food,...
Naturally, this being a post-apocalyptic world, there are roving marauders, though our hero’s garden is fertilized with the bodies of those he’s successfully fended off. He has his suspicions when teenager Milja (Mia Goth) and her mother Kathryn (Olwen Fouéré) arrive at his doorstep to ask for food,...
- 10/19/2015
- by Ed Frankl
- The Film Stage
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