2. The Battery
Zombies are back in vogue big time. It's not very often a Zombie movie comes along these days that really makes us want to sink our teeth into it (terrible flesh eating pun) but The Battery is certainly one of those. You see like all good Zombie flicks The Battery isn't about the undead at all. It's about the relationships between the people who are surviving in this scary new world. George A. Romero knew this, The Walking Dead knows this and so does Jeremy Gardner, director and star of this festival favourite. Gardner stars alongside Adam Cronheim as a couple of former baseball players who have banded together to increase their chances of survival in a world where the dead have come back to life. The pair couldn't be any more different despite their shared love of baseball with Gardner portraying Ben a beardy, wild man who has no qualm smashing the s**t out of a Zombie's head in contrast to Cronheim's more reserved and perhaps human Mickey. For much of the film we simply watch the relationship between the two develop as they wonder across New England in search of other survivors and a safe place to lay their heads. Unfortunately though Ben and Mickey's relatively easy existence post apocalypse is about to come to an end as they find themselves trapped inside a car for the entire third act. In a stroke of cinematic genius Gardner has us trapped in there with them at the same time so as each agonising minute passes we feel it too - something we haven't seen done so effectively since Michael Haneke's Funny Games. Battery is likely going to be huge when Hollywood picks up on it and as a result Gardner will be too. Experience the event before it's too late. You wont regret it.