The Carriers was released to a limited number of U.S. theaters in early September. The story follows a foursome on a mission to survive a pandemic which has a mortality rate of %100. Rather apropos given the current H1N1 paranoia that abounds in the news these days. The film is structured like a zombie film, just without the dead coming back to life, it turns out that the living infected can be much more difficult to deal with than living dead. No one ever has a moral problem with double tapping a ghoul if it gets in your way, but when you need to kill a father in front of his infected daughter in order to steal his ride to save yourself and those with you, the line is not so clear. You may recognize one of the main characters in the film as actor Chris Pine AKA Captain Kirk from the recent reboot of the Star Trek movies series. The movie feels like a family road trip from hell. To reach their favorite vacation spot two brothers cross country in order to reach an out of the way motel on the ocean to hold out until the virus dies off. Also on this trip are the significant others of the brothers, kind of, the younger brother in the story insists that the young lady he decided to bring along on a road trip during the apocalypse is just his friend. The foursome encounter many obstacles in their quest to get to the beach, false hope for a cure and the not-so-altruistic nature of people during a time of panic and disease. Although The Carriers can be slow at points the payoff is in the interactions of the characters of the story and less in the volume of gore that the zombie-like illness provides.
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