Over the past decade, the movies have obsessed over doomsday scenarios of all kinds — global warming, global cooling, nuclear war, earthquakes, asteroids, aliens, zombies, shortages in water, oil or ...

Sometimes you take a premise and wring it for all it’s worth and you add some soul, humor, great casting, and gritty action to give it the right flavor. That’s exactly what the post-apocalyptic ...

Last year one of my favorite midnight horror movies of the Toronto Film Festival (plus Fantastic Fest, too!) was Jim Mickle's Stake Land, a fresh new take on the vampire genre with lots of blood and ...

In the grisly prologue, teenage Martin, played by Connor Paolo, becomes an orphan and is more or less adopted, like a dog, by Mister. Like so many post-apocalyptic scenarios, "Stake Land" concerns how ...

I think I found my favorite Midnight Madness film of 2010. Vampires have become an overused, cliched and tired "villain" in genre flicks recently, but that doesn't mean an indie gem can't come along ...

It’s not like the world needs a great deal more vampire-and-zombie-apocalypse entertainment, but it’s good to see practitioners of the craft occasionally keep it real. By “real,” of course, I mean an ...

Set in a post-apocalyptic world midway between "Zombieland" and "The Road," the genre-enlivening "Stake Land" is a highly satisfying low-budget horror-thriller from helmer/co-writer Jim Mickle.

This review was originally published on April 22, 2011. It has been reposted for the DVD and Blu-ray release. Jim Mickle’s “Stake Land” is proof that a film can be terribly familiar and yet still be ...

Stake Land’s trenchant worldview, both dystopian and completely rational, shows an affinity with the likes of The Road, 28 Days Later and Night of the Living Dead By Justin Lowe Claiming intermediate ...