Episode 75: Here Alone and What We Become

Send us Fan MailA switcheroo here. I was planning to publish our episode on the battle of the 1970s long titled movies, with Let The Sleeping Corpses Lie at Manchester Morgue from 1974 and Children Should Not Play With Dead Things from 1972. However, Michael is playing catch-up and do we will publish that one next week.And so it gives me, more of a fan of survival horror, to give my slant on the genre a chance. This episode I am therefore watching two movies with a heavy survival theme. First we have Here Alone, where a woman (Ann) lives by herself in the woods after a viral outbreak. She uses tricks and methods learnt over time, and from her now deceased husband, to forage, and scavenge from local houses, avoiding the infected. But then, against her better judgement, she helps two fellow survivors who challenge her strategy.And then we review the Danish What We Become. This did remind me a lot of the English movie Containment. And it follows the lives of a Danish family as a virus breaks out locally and the government contain them in their houses. Disinformation, misinformation and lies come from the authorities as they discover the truth about their predicament. Both very good, both on the positive side of the scoring too. Check them out Here Alone and What We Become, both on Amazon Prime.