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Ex Navy Seal John (Paul Logan) accompanies his girlfriend Selina
(Tiffany Brouwer), who's going on a camping trip to the (back-)woods with
her photography students (Sydney Sweeney, John Omohundro, Thomas Ochoa,
Jack David Frank, Elisabeth Ferrara) mainly so he can finally propose to
her ... and she having her always horny and/or loud-mouthed students with
her doesn't make this any easier, as with all he has lived through,
romance isn't exactly his forte. But somehow he pulls through - but almost
immediately after, they are attacked by mutants who kill all males and
abduct the females as gangrape material - only John somehow gets away. The
mutants of course are the result of generations of backwoods inbreeding,
combined with the fact that their drinking water has been irradiated, and
only recently have they taken to cannibalism. Now John is highly trained
in all sorts of combat of course, and he doesn't shy away from taking a
life if he must - but the mutants are not such an unorganized rubble as
they first appear to be, but are organized by wanted killer and high
stakes criminal Cylus (Costas Mandylor), who uses the mutants as means to
guard his meth factory, who has in return trained them to hunt for humans
more efficiently. So basically, John is grossly outnumbered and outgunned
- but his training and his love for Selina, who Cylus claims for himself,
push him on on what just might be a suicide mission ... Genre veterans
Vernon Wells and Bill Moseley play one of the main mutants and a bartender
respectively, while fan fave Don 'The Dragon' Wilson plays a vet - who
doesn't do much more than say high though ... The Horde
is essentially a blend of a few grindhouse genres of the 1970s and 80s,
particularly the slasher, the backwoods shocker (think The
Hills Have Eyes here), and the testerone driven violent action
flick (think First Blood) - and if there was one movie that married
the genres in a rather similar way as The Horde one from back when,
it was probably Zero Boys -
though this is already where the similarities between especially these two
movies end. Now basically, between horror and action, The Horde has
just the best of both worlds ... and that's in this case tons of very
graphic violence, and much of it dished out by the hero even. Now I won't
say this movie is reinventing the wheel or anything, nor has it set out
to, but it's well-paced, the shocks are well-set, the action packs a
punch, and it does contain a few surprising plottwists (even down to who's
killed and who survives) - so if you enjoy at least one of above mentioned
genres, you'll probaly enjoy this as well!
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