Excellent adaptation.

Crappy film

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

From the beginning, this is clearly some kind of post-apocalyptic story featuring Ann (Lucy Walters) suffering the indignities of a world without amenities: a world that is starkly beautiful and deadly dangerous. Director Rod Blackhurst takes full advantage of the mesmerising locations and presents us with a convincingly isolated existence. Indeed, for a good while, the only dialogue is featured in flashbacks to a more fruitful past. The music too, by Eric D. Johnson, is suitably morose and ambient.Whilst the going is undoubtedly and convincingly tough for Ann and those few she meets up with, it's pretty galling for the viewer too. For a long time, the trivialities that make up their existence become pretty wearing and the (understandably) melancholy dialogue gets rather dull.Love is found within the desolation between Ann and Chris (Adam Thompson) and not even the overdue reveal of members of the living dead spices things up hugely. Chris's step-daughter, teenage Olivia (Gina Piersanti), in shorts and a flimsy top, is chased through the woodlands before the creature is despatched, gore-free, and only then do we get a scenario that could fall under the horror banner. It's a long time coming.I'm quite surprised to read online reviews that praise the first two thirds of this only to be disappointed by the final act. For me, it is the other way round. Whilst I am a huge devotee of slow-burning horrors, the build-up is so morose and uneventful that the final act makes it worthwhile: the pay-off, although brief, is pretty effective and proof again that it isn't the monsters you need necessarily fear, it is the person standing at your side.

I was really hopeful for this movie, a zombie flick with a big emphasis on survival. This movie however, more so hiding out and depressing flash backs rather than storyline or action or explanation as to how what happened happened. A great reminder to, if in this situation, think with logic, not with emotion and guilt. The unlikeable leading lady makes a huge,stupid decision which is the endings twist. Not great for survival at all. Not happy Jan. Basically a slow moving movie, you think there will be quite a few more exciting moments than there is, so its a let down.

Movies filmed or funded out of NY and environs have consistently been of the lowest quality, noncreative, unoriginal and cheap of any location on Earth (well, maybe Mexico & Thailand are in the same ballpark). Support for this film as an example: 1. Virus produces zombies. Mechanism never explained; extent never explained; nothing explained with regards to the "infection". Boringly overdone plot concept anyway. 2. Zombies running, actually sprinting. How if they're dead? Romero, alive or dead, would be aghast. Zombies living in a fenced-in area, and off of what? It was just them; eventually they would need some meat. Even that isn't clear if they're dead. 3. Cinematography was mostly poor quality - view of lake, nondescript woods and leaves. Occupied half the film. 4. Acting was robotic and consisted mostly of flashbacks to pre-virus days mostly on preparing survival skills for the apocalypse. What forest foods are edible; making a camp, etc. Exciting! 5. Dumb ending, actually not an ending. Just our main protagonist driving away. 6. Kickstarter funding. Does that mean they did it for the money? Can't be for the need for another zombie flick. 7. Coup de grâce - film can't even pass middle school spelling. Cases in point, two subtitled lines: (a.) "the car drove pass" (b.) "the wound oozed puss".

I am really impressed with what "Here Alone(2016)" delivered. It was a really interesting film that started great but had a terrible third act.At the beginning of the film you can already notice how the shots, colors, and score really build an intense atmosphere, really amplifying the loneliness of our protagonist (Ann). The first act is mainly presented as a sequence of moments showing Ann's survival habits. They are organized and shot in a really effective way, that's reflected on the great photography this film has.So, overall, seems like a good film. But here are some really misses made by the creators. Some minor problems were there like the bad connections on some "action" moments, like when Olivia is being chased apparently by distance by a Zombie that instantly is cut already having her down struggling to leave its grip.But besides those minor mistakes here and there, what really killed it for me was the 3rd act.Since Olivia and her stepdad (Chirs) were rescued by Ann, we start seeing a shady relationship between them, reflected on the way Olivia envies Ann after Chris starts to fall in love with the protagonist. That envy leads to the 3rd act, Olivia knocks Ann out, ties her up and scream to get the attention of the zombies telling them where lunch time is. That was all a big writing flaw for me. First of all because we can't clearly see through that relationship between Olivia and Chris. We can't tell if it is some "dad and daughter" thing or something sexual, even with the scene coming to the 3rd act when Olivia seems to be undressing to seduce (????) her stepdad. The reason for the envy is not clear and kills the whole story. Then it all comes to the dilemma at the end... last round on the gun...both Chris and Olivia (Mrs Hormones teen) are being attacked...whose zombie to shoot. That as a weird attempt to make a "vengeance or not" situation. Which honestly didn't seem like a dilemma at all. How it was seen in shot, saving Chris was simply logical, since he could try himself to save Olivia with his butcher knife. But Ann chose the girl (suggested as a way to "forgive herself" for what she did with her daughter). I can't see how the writer wanted that to be the ending for the dilemma and the film, since at that moment that situation is not on focus, yet the b**ch move by Olivia.Also, as an ending thought, IF Olivia and Chris relationship was sorta dad and daughter, wouldn't it be too much "normal life" problems to care that he's in love with another woman? I mean, it's a survival situation. MANY films forget that characters should not behave in an apocalypse the same way they behave on every day life...that's why we watch the film.