Die Alone, from the mind of director/writer Lowell Dean and produced by Regina’s Minds Eye Entertainment, is now available for streaming on multiple services. Talking Dog Studios’ Rob Bryanton was responsible for the sound design and 5.1 mix on this “zombie movie with a heart” (as some have called it), which has already picked up multiple awards and some glowing reviews. We were thrilled to see this Saskatchewan production written up in a recent New York Times article, here’s everything they had to say about the film:
“Carrie-Anne Moss lands her best role in a long while in this post-apocalyptic film, so fans of this underused actress should check it out just for her. But there is a lot more to “Die Alone”, which builds up to a fantastic plot twist and wrenching conclusion that feels earned.
Moss plays the grizzled Mae, who has managed to survive a virus that turned people into ravenous plantlike zombies (they look a bit like the DC Comics creature Swamp Thing). They are called “the reclaimed” according to a theory that the apocalypse was created by nature fighting back after centuries of abuse by humankind.
The film’s central character is an amnesiac named Ethan (Douglas Smith), who only remembers that he must meet up with his girlfriend, Emma (Kimberly Sue-Murray), from who he was separated when the world went to pot. He patches together what happened from flashes of memory that slowly cohere into an unsettling reality.
Mae welcomes Ethan to her isolated farm, where one of her remaining pleasures in that grim world is listening to the 1968 hit “Crimson and Clover” on vinyl. The writer-director Lowell Dean puts the song to actual narrative use and it casts a spooky light on the ending. I’m still reeling.”
