Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Delivers everything that horror fans might want from a post-apocalyptic thriller - rape, self-immolation, youngster harvesting, throat-slitting, more rape - everything, that is, except a reason to care.
– William Goss,
Film.com,
13 Jan 2012
rotten:
In the end, the pace of the film is just too sluggish to maintain our interest and, at under two hours, it feels longer.
– Bruce Demara,
Toronto Star,
19 Jan 2012
rotten:
It's a rare movie where the most likable character onscreen, and the feel-good hero of the damnable show, is none other than the hardy cockroach.
– Rick Groen,
Globe and Mail,
20 Jan 2012
rotten:
The tale quickly degenerates from a dramatically promising clash of personalities under pressure to a gratuitous display of rape, murder, torture, dismemberment, madness, ugly misogyny, naked racism and yelling.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
20 Jan 2012
rotten:
The film's only point appears to be lurid delight in topping one atrocity with another.