Starring - Lily Sullivan (Evil Dead Rise, Lunacy), Callan Mulvey (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Children of the Corn), and Richard Roxburgh (Van Helsing, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman)
Release Date - 2025
Genre - Horror
Tagline - "Redemption in a world gone dark"
Format - Streaming (Online Screener)
Rating (out of 5):
I've went through a zombie phase this year after spending a few years actively avoiding them unless they were sent to me for review. I absolutely loved The Walking Dead comics when I was in high school and the show when it was released when I was in college. Sadly, the show became so popular that it spawned so many piss poor clones and shitty zombie flicks. Zombies had invaded store shelves and they all lacked originality and fun that made the sub-genre so entertaining in the first place. I decided to dive back into zombies this year and binged the entire Walking Dead series along with most of the spin-off series. Since then I've watched a dozen or so more zombie flicks and keep looking for more. I think enough time has passed since The Walking Dead hype initially started and the sub-genre is back to being more original and creative. A few weeks back I received a press release for the zombie flick Forgive Us All and I had to see it. I reached out to them and they were kind enough to send over a link for review.
The film follows a young woman trying to survive deep in the woods after a virus has wiped out most of the population. Those that did not die after becoming infected has turned into flesh eating madmen. Her survival is put into question she finds an unconscious man who is being hunted by an organization that tries to enforce rule on those that are not infected.
Forgive Us All looked like a solid end of the world zombie flick starring Lily Sullivan who won many of us genre fans over with her performance in Evil Dead Rise. Sadly, this was not the case and the movie was difficult to finish. The acting in this one was decent for the most part. Sullivan does a solid job for the most part but a lot of the scenes without dialogue from her was a little awkward to watch. Her blank stare and emotionless demeanor is a bit odd to watch and makes the scenes feel very awkward to watch. The star of the film for me was Richard Roxburgh. His performance was fantastic but his character was underutilized. I would have loved to see more of his character so we could watch him ham up the scenes. The supporting cast is hit or miss. Some do a decent job while others feel more forced or overdramatic. The story for this one is could be trimmed down into a 20 minute short which would have worked in the movie's favor. The movie itself focuses way too much time reminding the viewer that the film's protagonist lost her daughter and is living a simple life in the woods. The remainder of the film is spent with her butting heads with the older man, presumably her father, over the man she found. A lot could be cut from this one which would fix the pacing tremendously. Also, the film is about a world ravaged by infected killing those that are healthy but we get very little of this. Hell, most of this is shown in flashbacks and those are few and far in between. Finally, the film isn't a graphic one. We get some blood and some make-up effects but nothing that would stand out to genre fans. Overall, Forgive Us All sounds more like an apology from the crew behind the film than an actual title. The movie is extremely slow paced, uneventful, and very lackluster. The artwork I was sent does very little to represent the film properly and is easily one of the weakest zombie films I have ever seen. Skip it.
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