What do you get when you combine $6000 with the raw love of film making and genre geekdom? A really enjoyable post apocalyptic road to Zombie picture. Writer, Directer, Producer, Actor Jeremy Gardner has scored a solid home run with his tag team tale of baseball player buddies wandering onward to no where fighting flesh eaters along the way.
Ben (Jeremy Gardner) and Mickey (Adam Cronheim) are an unlikely pair. In this walking dead world baseball catcher Ben does all the dirty work while Mickey mopes around headphone music blaring, longing for female companionship. Never wanting to linger in one place to long Ben works hard to keep things safe while Mickey complains and longs for a comfortable stop along the way. They try but we all know that safety is fleeting especially when the dead want there pound of flesh, literally. Sainthood will certainly be awaiting Ben on the other side of the pearly gates after pampering the highly annoying lump that is our pitcher Mickey. Add in a disembodied lovely voice on a walky talky air wave and the plot twists to a clever turn.
'The Battery' is more angst than gore ridden, but in a sea of zombie flicks that have nearly drowned us all since the living dead 1960's through the modern masterwork that is 'The Walking Dead' this film is a cool ride of non nightmarish fun.
Scream Factory has once again gone above and beyond in honoring independent horror film. 'The Battery' Blu-ray edition is presented in a wonderful 2.35:1/1080p/AVC-encoded image and an equally great 5.1 DTS-HD Master and 2.0 DTS-HD Master Audio mix. There are English subtitles and the special features include Audio Commentary with Writer, Director and Producer Jeremy Gardner as well as Producer and Actor Adam Cronheim and Director of Photography Christian Stella, Tools of Ignorance: The Making of The Battery, Outtakes, Trailers, and a soundtrack piece called Rock Plaza Central at the Parlor.
When the world as we have known it ends and the dead come calling we could do worse
than to have a couple of ball players lead us out of the chaos. Gore covered baseball bats and catchers masks work in a pinch. For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, At the old ball game.
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