EXTINCTION is a cheap Hungarian zombie flick that goes for the post-apocalyptic vibe on what is obviously a tiny budget. The setting is a snowbound house, where survivors hole up a decade after an apocalypse wiped out mankind and replaced them with feral, super-fast flesh-eating creatures. The protagonists are a couple of rival guys and a kid and they spend most of the screen time either fighting or in an uneasy alliance. The horror aspects of the production turn out to be very limited, at least until the climax, and for the most part there's just one zombie on screen at a time. What I disliked about this film was the look - all dark, cold and blue, just like many modern digital horrors - and the fakeness of the CGI effects, which render all of the big stunt scenes quite laughable. The acting is okay and the story offers more structured characters than you typically see in this genre, but this is nothing to get excited about.

This movie had some interesting concepts, but also had some issues with the delivery. This movie is about a group of two guys and a woman and her baby trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. The woman gets bit, so it is just the two guys and the baby. The two guys head north where it is too cold for the zombies. The father, played by Mathew Fox, can't handle the trauma and becomes an alcoholic. His best friend, played by Jeffrey Donovan, feels he has no choice but to raise the girl himself and vows that his father will now have nothing to do with her. Time passes for 8 or 9 years and the little girl tries to get the two men to begin talking to one another and mend old feuds. Oh yeah, the zombies have adapted to the cold and are coming to get them. The filming of this movie is very dark and you can hardly see anything. The two actors played it up pretty well, but I couldn't believe for one minute that they would continue some long feud when they are fighting to survive. I like my zombies slow and dumb and these were fast and adaptable. The little girl does too many things to worsen their situation. The two guys have built a fortress to protect themselves and the zombies get in like it was nothing. A lot of little things brought this movie down from being a pretty decent concept.

The world has come to an end, flesh hungry zombies now inhabit the planet, only two men, Patrick and Jack, and Jack's daughter Lu survived. Living in the aptly named town of Harmony, which is now snow covered and surviving only just. A divide separates Patrick and Jack, but soon they must unite when the Zombies hit the town.I had read the usual reviews an was almost put off, it's true we have been swamped with Zombie movies over the last few years. You can't even visit a Cinema without the latest offering attempting to outdo the last. But there is something strangely enjoyable about Extinction, put together in an altogether more serious and grown up manner it has some very good points, some really strong production values, it certainly looks good, it's well acted, Matthew Fox puts in a good shift, even if he is hardly recognisable from the Lost days. Some great tension, a few jumpy moments.On the downside the film is overlong, at almost two hours I did lose interest a few times, some of the scenes are a bit too dialogue heavy, they could definitely have done a bit of editing to get it to ninety minutes. At times the story seems almost small scale, considering the enormity of what's occurred, the confines make it a bit small at times. Some aspects of the storyline were glaringly obvious too, you knew what was coming.Not a film you'd go raving about the monsters and the effects, it's more then that, it focuses more on the characters, the story of survival and human relationships. Pretty good, 7/10

I'm surprised that I went to the trouble of registering and then writing a review for THIS movie. First time movie review for me. I saw a preview of Extinction on another movie I watched at home and it looked intriguing. Despite all the free streaming I get, I even paid $3 to watch this. Happy to say I was not disappointed, in fact, I was impressed. This is a solid piece of movie making. Cinematography was evocative and effective, creating a powerful framework for the story...and even played with some of the themes of the movie; there were a few scenes when the blues of winter almost looked like greens and I questioned what I was looking at...is that grass? Or snow? Hope or no hope?Acting was solid. I like both of these actors. I was introduced to Jeffrey Donovan recently on the 2nd season of Fargo and I get it now, he is good. Mathew Fox is convincing. The girl also is a fresh new face.Zombies, and I'm a bit of an expert here, are sufficiently terrifying because they are fast enough and slow enough to scare you (World War Z...too fast and as a result not much of a connection. Walking Dead, too damn slow). Don't want to expound on this too much as it would spoil it.But the real treat for me was the story and ensuing questions that inevitably accompany such a plot. It's one of the reasons I loved Walking Dead 1st season so much. In the face of such adversity, what would I do? Again, no spoilers, but I found myself wondering what I would have done and any time a movie can get me to talk to myself, I know it's doing something right. Lastly, the more important plot within a plot, the relationship, was cleverly peeled back a little at a time. Not too little to annoy me, but enough to intrigue me. This is what sets this apart from other 'zombie' movies. It's really less about them and more about the 'remains of the day' that make this a winner in my book.I believe this movie was never released in theaters, too bad, but glad I found it.