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A soldier (Richard Glover) is awoken from stasis to find the world completely destroyed. Venturing into the wasteland he is faced with the devastating loneliness of being the last man alive. (synopsis via UK Horror Scene)
For a guy as upbeat and doggedly optimistic as myself, I sure spend an awful lot of time in dystopian realms, neck deep in the post-apocalyptic horror of TV shows like The Walking Dead and Falling Skies, and movies like Divergent, Warm Bodies and The Edge of Tomorrow.
I am not entirely why I enjoy the end of civilisation as we know it and the resulting messy aftermath but enjoy it I do; it perhaps has something to do with the idea of watching the world come to an end while I sit snug and safe in my lounge room or in a plush cinema seat, contemplating what I will have for dinner, confident there’s a better than average chance the cataclysm hasn’t it while I was thus engrossed and life will go on after the credits have rolled.
One thing I do is know is that when it is well done, and Gavin Rothery’s The Last Man looks exceedingly well done – something you would expect from the Concept Artist & VFX Supervisor of Duncan Jones’ superlative sci-fi masterpiece Moon – you actually feel as if the world has shuffled off its mortal coil and you are as alone as the survivors, or in this case, survivor, trying to come to grips with the end of everything you’ve ever known.
With a soundtrack by English singer-songwriter Charlotte Hatherley (Ash, touring instrumentalist for KT Tunstall and Bat For Lashes et. al) and an apocalyptically-appropriate haunting sense of foreboding and tension throughout, The Last Man looks just the right sort of film to be a part of London’s FrightFest, where it will premiere on 23 August.
Afterwards, it will hit the film festival circuit with Gavin Rothery promising via his website that The Last Man “will be released online sometime mid-2015.”
So ditch your Pollyanna outlook for its 20 minute running time and get ready once again to dive into the darkness of the apocalyptic abyss.
(source: Hey U Guys)