Zombie movies have been done every which way, and then some.
It’s been said often, but bears repeating, that it’s difficult to bring
anything new or fresh to the genre. But a movie doesn’t need to reinvent the
wheel or do something entirely unheard of in order to be effective. Dominique
Rocher’s debut feature, The Night Eats the World, falls into
a category with films like The Girl with all the Gifts,
Train to Busan, and The Battery, movies that,
while they don’t necessarily blow up the categorical conventions, do what they
do well, put an inventive spin on the proceedings, and breathe a bit of life
into what can be a stale horror subset.
