Not reviewed at press time. In this apocalyptic thriller by writer-director Albert Pyun, the year is 2007 and a toxic chemical leakage in the Soviet Union has caused all the citizens of Eastern Europe to either die or turn into psychopathic killers. As a result, the United States quarantines all its immigrants and that’s how this movie came to be set in Boston. It follows the story of two cops who chase an infected man through tunnels beneath the city. Stand-in background footage of the Boston ruins was shot in the Slovak Republic and Mostar, Bosnia. The December Los Angeles Times review cites a 77-minute running time; the Austin venue lists it at 91. Sounds like they may have borrowed some footage from John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A. and New York movies.
This article appears in May 27 • 2005.
