
After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: He is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. Petrified with fear, Sam is going to have to barricade himself inside the building and organize his survival. But is he really the sole survivor?... (Full plot summary below)
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After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: He is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. Petrified with fear, Sam is going to have to barricade himself inside the building and organize his survival. But is he really the sole survivor?
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| IndieWireEric KohnEven as the story drifts off, Night Eats the World derives its power from a beguiling, provocative implication: It’s hard to confront a hostile world, but gathering the courage to do so doesn’t make the job any easier. |
| The Film StageJared MobarakThe Night Eats the World gazes upon what’s left of society through a lens of pragmatism. It acknowledges that humanity is barely beating back its own extinction, that survivors are the minority and therefore minutes from oblivion if they cannot adapt. |
| The A.V. ClubKatie RifeIn the end, though, it’s the very concepts that make The Night Eats The World sound insufferably pretentious on paper — namely, its high-minded ideas and emphasis on small moments — that tip the film toward intriguing rather than, well, zombifying. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenDominique Rocher reinvigorates the zombie film only to succumb to the strictures of the coming-of-age romance. |
| Village VoiceSimon AbramsUnfortunately, the best and worst thing about director Dominique Rocher and his two co-writers’ scenario is its familiarity. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe problem is that The Night Eats the World steers so far into the quotidian of its hero that it can become quite frustrating, and even rather dull, to sit through. The threat of death doesn't become as tangible as it should, and the suspense wears itself too thin. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreWhile the setting is striking, a Paris “28 Days Later/Rammbock/I Am Legend” dark and silent after the end of civilization, genre fans may find this passive narrative slow and largely devoid of action, despite the odd burst of menace. Because it is. Slow. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyThe very definition of a well-made movie that nonetheless really needn’t have been made at all, Rocher’s entry into the canon will attract a few zombie completists, but provide little fun for the average genre buff and underwhelming reward for art-house audiences. |
| The New York TimesJason ZinomanThe makeup design and chase scenes are rote, and the little dramatic conflict — arguments over where to hide — traffic in the oldest clichés in the genre. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayNo matter how spare and arty The Night Eats the World is, there’s nothing here that hasn’t been done before. |