8.5/10
I guess the extraordinarily popular The Walking Dead is going to open the doors for a lot of other zombie-related media, conventional or otherwise. The Battery is a really unique take on the zombie apocalypse - actually, it's more like a buddy film with a zombie apocalypse back drop. Made on what must have been a shoestring budget with Jeremy Gardner writing, directing, producing and starring, it's a really smart, heartfelt, stripped down take on a worn-out genre. The core of the movie (really, the entire movie) is the relationship between two kinda-friends, Mickey and Ben, thrown together after a zombie outbreak hits. How they get along, how they bicker, and how they survive, and of course the success of the movie is owing largely to their chemistry and the believability of their relationship. There are super long, slow takes and a really good indie rock soundtrack - so very un-zombie-film-like traits. Imagine Jim Jarmusch directing a zombie/road movie with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg writing the dialogue - something like that, with the indie aesthetic of the also-excellent Bellflower. A zombie movie for people who don't like zombie movies, basically. I really recommend it.
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