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Survival Is Not Enough

2023 · 91 min

A grim, wintry road trip through a zombie outbreak, mixing low-budget action with a bleak, occasionally wry tone.

Directed by: Daniel Lehmussaari
Genres: Action, Horror
Starring: Dino Buska, Mats Eriksson, Elin Johansson

Overview: A road movie with zombies. After a virus outbreak the Swedish government uses flight spray to spread out the vaccine to the north part of Sweden. But the vaccine is bad and transform the people to flesh eating zombies

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Directed by: Daniel Lehmussaari
Genres: Action, Horror
Starring: Dino Buska, Mats Eriksson, Elin Johansson

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
bleakstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: survival
isolation
betrayal
death
freedom
Places: countryside
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
serialised
Content intensity: Gore strong
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex none

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Action	6
Horror	6
Humour	3
Realism	5
Romance	1
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	4

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Genres: action, horror
Directed by: Daniel Lehmussaari
Written by: Björn Olofsson
Starring: Dino Buska, Mats Eriksson, Elin Johansson, Marie-Louise Karlström, Mirjam Larsson, Daniel Lehmussaari, Christer Lind, Björn Olofsson
Runtime: 91 min
Country: Sweden
Languages: Swedish

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