Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
"Stake Land" bursts with action, ideas and interesting characters.
– Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Apr 2011
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Shows that a savvy mixture of characterization, atmosphere and gore-eographed suspense can make even the most familiar fright tropes feel vaguely organic again.
– Robert Abele,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr 2011
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Jeff Grace's melancholy music underscores the atmosphere of bleak dystopian despair, leavened by flashes of humour and hope.
– Nigel Floyd,
Time Out,
15 Jun 2011
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Other undead movies needlessly foreground the action. "Stake Land'' has its fight scenes, but here they're secondary.
– Ethan Gilsdorf,
Boston Globe,
16 Jun 2011
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Mickle's observation of a devastated working-class America is so sharp that the horror elements, though effectively handled, come to feel like an afterthought.