Extinction (2015) Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show you
a science-fiction horror film: "Extinction"! Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care!
The movie begins with two school buses riding through the night. However, the buses are not
filled with children. Instead, worried adults and stern soldiers are inside the vehicles.
A message plays on loop on the speakers, informing the people that the city is under evacuation,
and a strict martial law is being imposed. The buses enter the town of Harmony,
where they are expected to take shelter. However, the bus at the front suddenly stops.
Gunshots are fired. A soldier from the second bus steps out to investigate. He instructs the
others to remain on the bus for their safety. But a minute later, a second soldier steps out. He's
suddenly attacked by a rabid human, and dies. But the soldier resurrects as another rabid
zombie. This starts a wave of zombie attacks against the bus riders.
More and more people get infected; and the survivors scatter in different directions.
Among them are a couple and their infant baby. Another man named Jack
is also with them. However, the wife and the baby get separated from the husband.
She hides in a car with the baby, but a zombie finds them. Luckily, Jack rescues them.
To her horror, the wife discovers that there is blood on the baby.
She hands her to Jack, so he can check if the baby is injured. Her husband arrives as well,
and looks at his daughter. But the wife discovers the truth: she is the one who
the zombie bit. She rolls up her sleeves, and shows the two men the huge bite on her arm.
9 years later, both Jack and the man are still in Harmony. They are living in separate houses,
with a chain-link fence in between them. Curiously, the baby, who is named Lu,
is now a young child and lives with Jack, rather than living with her biological father. Jack and
the man appear to not be talking at all. And the man's wife isn't anywhere to be found.
Every morning, the man goes on his snow-mobile, and ventures out of the town to hunt. Today,
he ends up in an abandoned frozen city, and shoots down a horse. He takes the
horse-carcass back home with him. He cooks horse steak for dinner, and feeds his dog,
which seems to be his only companion. The man's hair is now long, and he is sporting an unkempt
beard, with the nickname Messy-Beard. He is also now dependent on alcohol.
In comparison, Jack and Lu are struggling with food. They have to make do with their dwindling
supply of moldy cans. Lu remarks that she doesn't even remember what real meat tastes like.
Jack keeps a tidy home, and makes sure to teach Lu basic school subjects every day. He is every
bit the devoted father, and is very strict with what the young girl can or cannot do. For example,
Lu is forbidden from going near the fence, or talking to Messy-Beard, her biological father,
possibly because he's too messy and smelly. After dinner, Messy-Beard sits down in front
of his makeshift radio station. He broadcasts his nightly message looking for other people,
who might still be alive. But his words just echo through the cold and empty town.
The next morning, Lu secretly plays with Messy-Beard's messy dog across the fence.
The dog has dug a hole under the fence, possibly looking for some smelly shit;
but Lu says that Jack wouldn't like that. That night, Jack gifts Lu a box containing a
red scarf, lipstick, and a picture of her mother when she was a young girl.
In the neighboring house, all Messy-Beard can do, is play the happy birthday song on his
speakers for Lu. He even baked her a cake, but he's forbidden from ever talking to her.
In Jack's house, Lu asks him if the monsters she had heard about growing up, are really real.
He replies that they were real, but the harsh cold climate in Harmony, killed the zombies.
That night, Lu abruptly wakes up. She takes a lantern, and steps closer to the window. She sees
the silhouette of a zombie across the fence. In the distance, the dog barks at the intruder.
Lu gets scared, and hides under the bed. This is where Jack finds her in the morning.
The young girl confesses that she saw a pale white monster last night. Jack convinces her that it
is just a bad nightmare. Lu reasons that if Jack really is so sure that all the monsters are gone,
then why doesn't he allow her to go with him on his food gathering trips?
Jack skirts the topic, and suggests that they get food from their kitchen instead.
Sometime later, Lu goes to the fence to play with the messy dog. This time, she comes face-to-face
with Messy-Beard, who's overjoyed to see his daughter. But Jack immediately runs to them with
a gun, and threatens Messy-Beard. Messy-Beard backs away, and leaves on his snowmobile.
He and the dog go inside a storage shed. They find a half-eaten fox corpse. Messy-Beard follows
the trail of blood, and sees a zombie. The zombie chases after him, but he and the dog make it out,
and Messy-Beard manages to slam the storage door on it. However, the zombie is very strong,
and it wouldn't be long before it gets out. Messy-Beard and the dog flee as fast as they can.
But in his panic, Messy-Beard crashes his snowmobile into a tree. The zombie catches
up to them. It hovers over Messy-Beard, who's lying on the ground. However, it inexplicably
doesn't see Messy-Beard. Its ears make a clicking sound, as if trying to hone in on any noises.
At that moment, Jack is teaching Lu how to shoot with a gun. The force of the first
shot sends Lu sprawling to the snow. The noises they're making attract the zombie,
and it quickly runs toward Jack's house. Messy-Beard realizes that the zombie is
heading for Jack and Lu; so he gets on his snowmobile, and races to his house.
Jack sees Messy-Beard coming in the distance. Messy-Beard is firing shots from his gun, to get
Jack's attention. The zombie suddenly appears, and knocks Messy-Beard off the snowmobile.
Messy-Beard and the zombie wrestle their muscles in the snow. Jack steps closer with his gun, and
Lu begs him to shoot the zombie, so he can save Messy-Beard's messy life. But Jack doesn't pull
the trigger. The zombie bites Messy-Beard's neck. The messy dog comes to his rescue, and attacks the
zombie. The zombie fights back, and overpowers the dog, fatally wounding it. Messy-Beard is
heartbroken, and mourns the loss of the only messy friend he has left in the world.
Meanwhile, Jack takes Lu inside the house. The young girl is crying.
She is upset that Jack didn't help Messy-Beard, and just let the dog die.
Messy-Beard starts hallucinating as an effect of the bite. He remembers the night that
his wife was bitten. He had to amputate her arm to save her from infection.
Messy-Beard lies down on the floor of his house. He hears a voice coming from his radio. It's
another survivor who's in the area. Messy-Beard is happy that there are other human beings out there,
but he is infected. He shares that with the survivor. The survivor replies that
it's been hours already since he was bitten, so he must not be infected.
Messy-Beard replies that he will kill that zombie for what it did. He then hallucinates
another voice, telling him that the zombie is not the one he should be taking revenge on.
It was Jack's fault for not helping him. Meanwhile, Jack boards up his house as a
precaution against Messy-Beard, who he thinks will turn into a messy zombie.
But morning comes, and Messy-Beard is still a human. Jack gets into an argument with Lu,
who's tired of being trapped inside the house, and not being able to do anything.
Jack goes outside for a food gathering trip. He visits a house where an elderly
couple killed themselves. He sees a bunch of preserved flowers, and gives them to Lu.
That night, Lu sneaks out of the house, with the flowers in one hand.
She wants to place the flowers on the dog's grave to honor her friend. She crawls under the fence,
to go to Messy-Beard's house. Jack sees her from the upstairs window,
and he runs out of the house. The zombie returns and tries to attack Lu. Jack fights the zombie,
and pummels it with punches. But before it dies, it manages to claw at his chest.
Lu loses consciousness, and has blood streaming from her head. A few meters away,
Messy-Beard is pointing his shotgun at Jack. Jack flinches as the shot echoes through the
night，hitting the zombie, who had silently stood up behind him, and was about to attack again.
Jack wakes up hours later in Messy-Beard's house. He calls out for Lu, but doesn't
find her. He steps out into the yard, and finds Messy-Beard with the tied-up zombie.
Messy-Beard tells Jack that the zombies have now evolved after nine years. They developed hard
skin to acclimate to the cold weather, but are now blind, and just rely on their heightened hearing.
Another difference is that they are no longer contagious, since both Jack and Messy-Beard never
became infected despite being bitten. Lu reunites with Jack, and they return to their house.
Lu contacts Messy-Beard through a walkie-talkie, and invites him over for dinner. Messy-Beard is so
excited that he takes a bath, and cuts his messy hair to appear presentable to his daughter.
He knocks on the door, and Jack reluctantly welcomes him. Lu is bowled over by the sight of a
clean Messy-Beard, and she hugs him. The three of them sit down at the dinner table, and Messy-Beard
shares with Lu the toys he liked as a child. Lu suggests that the two men work together, to gather
supplies and hunt for food. Messy-Beard is open to the idea, but Jack doesn't say anything.
Later that night, Messy-Beard tells a story to Lu until she falls asleep. This leaves the two men
to finally talk. Jack apologizes for the death of Messy-Beard's messy dog, and Messy-Beard forgives
him. Jack lays down the law for Messy-Beard: he hasn't forgotten what Messy-Beard had done in the
past, but he's willing to work with him to protect Lu. Messy-Beard suggests that he can fix the truck
he has, and they can all go somewhere else. But Jack doesn't want to go; he believes that he and
Lu can stay safe in their house. Messy-Beard tells him that he's being naive, because more zombies
will be coming for them. The two argue until Jack makes Messy-Beard leave the house.
A flashback reveals that Messy-Beard became a raging alcoholic, after his
hormone-holic wife died. He was incapable of taking care of Lu, so Jack stepped in,
and took her away from Messy-Beard. Jack then raised Lu by himself for years.
Messy-Beard fixes the truck. Jack and Lu go with him for a supply run in town. They arrive
at the grocery store. Messy-Beard reminisces about the day that his wife died. She was lecturing
him about his drinking habit, pleading with Messy-Beard to start doing better as Lu's father.
But he didn't want to listen to her, so he walked away, and left her alone. His wife got inside the
truck, and was attacked by a peeping zombie. She died because Messy-Beard left her alone,
and he had been blaming himself ever since. This guilt caused him to shirk his responsibilities
as a father, and prompted Jack to take Lu away from Messy-Beard. This was why they
had not spoken to each other in nine years. They are about to go inside the store, when they
notice a woman standing frozen across the street. Messy-Beard cautiously approaches her, thinking
she might be a zombie. It turns out, she is human, but she's very sick due to hypothermia.
They take her back with them to the house, and try their best to save her.
When she has recovered, the woman tells them her story. For over a year, she stayed inside a house
with her family. Eventually, they ventured out in search of other survivors. They met other groups,
and she fell in love with a man. She got pregnant with his baby, but he died. The other survivors
organized a three-car convoy to get to Harmony, after hearing Messy-Beard's radio broadcasts.
However, they were attacked by several zombies on the way, and she barely survived. After speaking,
the woman hears the captured zombie's cries from outside. She grabs a gun, and immediately shoots
the zombie in the head. She informs Messy-Beard that the zombies communicate by howling at each
other; and by now, the zombie had probably told the others their location already.
Sure enough, more howls echo from a distance. The zombies will be coming for them.
Messy-Beard and the others reinforce the locks, and board up the house. They all prepare their
weapons in anticipation of a zombie attack. Jack hides Lu, and begs her not to disobey him,
and just stay quiet no matter what happens. Lu hides in the basement. When she turns around,
a zombie is behind her. She suppresses her scream and keeps quiet,
so the zombie won't sense her. Upstairs, more zombies are trying to
get inside the house. The woman uses all her strength to keep the door closed.
A zombie climbs through the bedroom window near Jack's location. However,
he doesn't notice, because he's busy trying to keep another zombie out of the doorway.
The woman surmises that some of the zombies are inside the walls. Messy-Beard presses his ear on
the wall, and hears a zombie slinking around. Lu carefully inches her way across the basement.
She drops her stuffed toy, and lets it make noise to distract the zombie.
A zombie flies out, and jumps on Messy-Beard. They both land on the floor,
and wrestle their muscles. Meanwhile, the woman plays a
loud song on Messy-Beard's record player, to confuse the zombies.
This allows both Messy-Beard and Jack to fend off their attackers. However, there are more zombies
waiting outside. The woman and Messy-Beard grab their guns, and shoot at the zombies outside.
Lu sits in front of the radio station, and hears an incoming message from a female survivor,
who's in a nearby area. She urges them to go to her location.
The music slows to a halt, because the generator has lost its power. They are also running out
of ammunition. At this point, it's only a matter of time before the zombies will reach them.
Jack goes to Lu and hugs her. He tells her to think of her mother, and that she will see her
soon. He's about to kill Lu, before the zombies can hurt her. But Lu escapes from his embrace,
and tells him that the woman on the radio told her that shooting the zombies in the
head would kill them. She adds that the woman also told her that they can go to where she is,
because it was safe there. Messy-Beard decides to sacrifice himself.
He tells Jack that he will draw the zombies away from them, and when they're gone, the others will
use the truck to drive to the survivor's location. But before he goes, he emotionally says goodbye to
Lu. Messy-Beard grabs a flare and his shotgun, and steps outside. He starts shooting the zombies and
drawing them to him, so the others can escape. The zombies flock to Messy-Beard and kill him.
His last thought before death is a memory of him talking to Lu, when she was still inside
his wife's pregnant belly. He remembers the hope and love he felt back then,
and carries that feeling with him as he dies. No matter what, he knows that his daughter will be
safe with Jack. His last act is to detonate a bomb to kill him and the zombies.
Jack, Lu, and the woman drive through the snowy road.
Sometime later, Jack stops the car, and they all get out.
The movie ends with the three of them watching the sunrise, with hopeful smiles on their faces.
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