Tag: Cargo
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Tribeca Film Review: ‘Cargo’
In 2013’s “Cargo,” a seven-minute viral video that cleverly subverted several walking-dead clichés, directors Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke devised a novel way for a zombie-bitten father to lead his uninfected infant child to safety. Now, reteaming with star Martin Freeman for the Netflix-bound feature version, the duo wind up indulging the overplayed tropes at…
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‘Cargo’ Review: Netflix Zombie Movie is ‘Train to Busan’ Meets the Australian Outback — Tribeca
Thanks to George A. Romero’s game-changing “Night of the Living Dead,” the horror genre loves to imagine a world decimated by the decay of civilization, where humanity fears the primal darkness that lurks inside, waiting to be unlocked by a mysterious outbreak or freak accident. But the zombie resurgence that overtook television, video games, and…
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‘Cargo’ Trailer: Martin Freeman Has 48 Hours To Save His Kid In Netflix Zombie Film
Nowadays, it seems like you can throw a rock and hit a new zombie film or TV series. The premise of the dead coming back to life to feast on the living has turned from unique and different into fairly commonplace in the last decade or so. So, when a zombie film comes along that…
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‘Cargo’ Trailer: Martin Freeman vs. The Zombie Apocalypse
Martin Freeman had a quick cameo in Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead, but now he’s headlining his very own zombie movie. We’ve been writing about the Australian film Cargo for years, and this new trailer tells us when we’ll finally get to see Freeman brave a zombie apocalypse in an attempt to save his…