Charming and brutal

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Six years after the American Civil War a former soldier, Edward Young, tries to survive the zombie apocalypse as told by his diary and sketches; narrated by one of his descendants. The film begins in 1865 when dead soldiers stand up and attack the living. Armed with muzzle loaders and cavalry swords the war ravaged population is quickly decimated. The first third of the movie is very good. The scenes with Young (played by Mark Gibson) alone or with his horse are well acted and well written. Once Young meets other survivors the script often feels rushed and sometimes a bit cheesy, actress Dee Wallace' lines especially so. There are a few other issues: The scenery doesn't look much like Tennessee; which of course it isn't as it was filmed in Ontario. Young's repeating rifle is a few decades early for the setting but I can live with it. Normally I would criticize a zombie film for trying to explain the cause because explanations usually seem dumb but here it is handled very well and I have no complaint. Despite some obvious flaws it was a sincere effort and it kept my attention.

I would probably consider this the best zombie movie of 2012. Keep in mind that there weren't much going against it. The latest Resident Evil movie was decent, but nothing really new.Exit Humanity it a total B-Budget zombie movie done right. It is slow paced, which I know some people would hate on, but I enjoyed. The director got the atmosphere right with this one. You end up caring about the characters. Acting is well done, along with the settings and music score. Make-up was the only thing that really showed this as a B-Budget endeavor.I would be willing to invest in a future film effort by this director. He's going to go up in Hollywood. Other directors have tried to do historical zombie movies, but this was the first one to actually do it well. He obviously strived for "epic" movie, and managed to succeed. Well done sir!

I usually pass up anything that is described as horror or says zombie in the title since the original zombie movies like "Dawn of the dead". I'm not sure why I chose to watch Exit Humanity. I think it was for a lack of anything interesting to watch. I'm happy for this lack in judgment. Exit Humanity turned out to be nothing like I had expected. It is well written and well acted. I wanted to give it more than 7 stars but then I am very hard to please. I think the failure of most zombie movies is the idea that there needs blood, guts and more blood and guts instead of intelligent dialog and story line. Exit Humanity is worth watching.

For all its drawbacks, it had some worthwhile elements, too.Films often suffer for lack of money. And it showed in this. It's not the fault of the Director. He can only work with what he has. But the movie suffered as I didn't latch into the scope (big or small) of the zombie outbreak. Everything was remote and small. I would have preferred a scene in a town. At least one.I'm not going to belabor the story. Zombies in the old west. I'm a sucker for zombie movies as I think it's an interesting metaphor for society and is a variation on a disease threat. A walking disease.I did like the structure of having these long vignettes. They would dwell on pacing but then latch into something different. Lose wife and look for kid. Find kid and then have goal of burying his ashes at the waterfall. Find motivation helping the new friend. Going back and rescuing the girl. Going over 80 minutes was ambitious for this sort of movie and it somewhat paid off.The pain of the lead was initially interesting but ended-up being way overused in the end (i.e. the screaming in anger). But a good amount of human moments that did pay off.A good collection of older B actors.But I don't really think there was an epilogue. The scroll had that the zombies were walking in present day but they never took care of tying that together.The book aspect of telling the story was interesting.And the animation worked, even though it was likely a cost-cutting measure.