Outside (2024)

A zombie movie hasn't felt as emotional as this making me scream at the TV. I'm glad it focuses on the family aspect and how it affects your relationship with others.
ML became paranoid of the outside emotionally abusing his wife and sons to make sure they stays in place resulting in kidnapping when the older son does go out for a valid reason. He couldn't put aside his PTSD and his wife's affair. He was very manipulative
The older son I connected with him from the start protecting his younger brother, unfairly treated by the dad as he wasn't biological child of his. He had to mature fast.
I cried for Lucas as his life got turned upside down and had to have his arm cut off so he dosen't turn into a zombie.

I loved how the zombie kept repeating their last words

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The zombies aren't to be feared.......

as much as the monster, the father. Outside is a movie based on a family's struggle, the decline of said family, and death of, against the backdrop of a zombie outbreak.

The father's childhood trauma, and subsequent c-PTSD, and his knowledge of his wife's infideliity with his older brother, which resulted in his oldest "son' being born, is the core of the storyline.

His wife is the mother to 2 sons, the latter of which, is the father's biological son. The wife warily navigates her husband's animosity towards her. At one point, early on, they have a *short moment of lust* for one another, then the angst resumes.

By just over the halfway point in the movie, the father has already sabotaged his family thrice. Deliberately withholding info and lying about said info, and burning a map his brother had left with him of the possible Camp the wife and oldest son had mentioned earlier. When that 'scene' during the Christmas dinner is shown the viewer knows the father has completely lost all reasoning and is on the edge of madness.

The movie is about the family. Their relationships with one another. It isn't about the zombies. The family's failed struggle IS the basis of Outside. The movie could have survived without the zombie outbreak as a plot/plots. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless they're into intense family dynamics that aren't resolved except by death.

ps. The focus on the father's 'item' from his father was especially poignant. Time, for the father, once he was back in his childhood home, had stood still.

pss. The zombies shown on screen were much better portrayed than the movie poster, and yes, they can talk. Their utterances rasped with their concerns or fears in their zombie state.

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