Matt Duffer
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Mother, father, and 9-year-old daughter locked in an atomic bunker. Two small concrete rooms, some bunk beds, and a couple of oil lamps.

The whole setting will be here, sad & gloomy, then.

The three survived, but it’s not clear exactly what from, some flashbacks will "illuminate" us at least a little bit and for what little it takes to endure the monotonous sad and gloomy darkness. But what the story leads us to believe will eventually prove to be wrong.

So, in short, apocalyptic tragedy strikes a small American mountain town, everyone flees, but the black men sent by the union block the exits from the town and quarantine everyone, and, not satisfied, send the jets to bomb the town. Our three intrepid characters find refuge in the local school's atomic bunker (which school doesn't have one, right??!??) and stay there for 301 days (why exactly 301? Who knows!), without any contact with the outside because out there are the very, very bad guys, whom we unsuspecting viewers imagine to be victims of an unspecified disease that "turns people bad."

So one expects some classic zombie epidemic or a nasty disease with sores and filth.

When the director finally decides to let the trio out of their hole (after more than an hour of a 90’ film), it will be revealed that zombies and plagues do not exist, and that the "weirdos" at the end are the ones who were believed to be the only normal ones.

Surprise ending? Well, a bit sad, gloomy, and dark, but there is a little twist in the end.

Worth trying to watch, without high expectations, eh.

PS

I watched it in the original language with subtitles, as you can probably guess, the dialogues weren't exactly the key part of the film, which was released on 9/15 in the USA. I don't know if, when, and under what title it was or will be released in Italy.