Writer/Director Antonio Tublen's low budget film Zoo is an unsuccessful look at love during a zombie pandemic.

Karen (Zoë Tapper) and John (Ed Speleers) live in a high rise flat and their marriage is disintegrating.

When news of a zombie infection comes through, they are trapped in their flat. They draw a large X on their window and wait to be rescued.

The time together gets the couple to bond again helped by the various drugs they have been taking. They interact with various people that come into their lives. Such as an uninfected couple who come to live with them but Karen is unhappy because it means sharing scarce food so she bakes them biscuits laced with speed.

Later on Karen stupidly opens the door to a gang of marauders, it all leads to a strengthening of the relationship between the couple as they fight off all comers.

The location of the film mainly consists of the flat and the bath. It is a bottle film but Tublen's film just does not make sense. I could never understand why they just let in people in their flat when they did not want them there and worse just to randomly open the door without checking for dangers.

Maybe the intention of the film was to be a bizarre Scandi black romantic comedy, in that case it flew over my head. Tapper and Speleers make the most from the material they have been given.

Karen (Zoë Tapper ) is depressed from her recent stillborn. She wants to divorce John (Ed Speleers) but hasn't found the words, just moving boxes. Because of the onset of a viral outbreak zombie apocalypse, she opts not to mention it. Instead, they are forced to stay inside their apartment except for the occasional food runs. She works in the evidence locker and has a bunch of drugs "they won't miss" lying around.

The film was more drama than horror. It is about two people who have fallen apart finding themselves again. It was all right, just don't expect great zombie effects.

Guide: F-word. sex. no nudity.

No idea why some reviewer was bitching about "a pile of trash filmed entirely in a crappy Brit apartment. Boo. Cmon Britain!! Really??" They don't even know that it's a Swedish movie written and directed by Antonio Steve Tublén who is a Swedish director, screenwriter and composer? Produced in Denmark and Sweden, NOT BRITAIN? If you have to slag on Brits for a Swedish film, you shouldn't be writing reviews.

That said, they obviously couldn't handle a zombie movie that wasn't a clone of The Walking dead with tons of zombies being decapitated in gory ways every five seconds.

This isn't some cheap-assed, basic, zombie slasher apocalypse action movie. If all you're looking for is gore, or a movie that follows the same-old same old, this is not the movie for you. This isn't a movie for people who personally dream of someday magically riding imaginary "apocalypse" horses when they never even saw a real horse before, imagining they're some bad-ass who would be fighting the "bad guys" instead of actually hiding in their basement, impaling the undead, wearing Mad Max clothes, and who want their movies to end in a juvenile, adolescent, non-realistic blaze of glory.

This is a movie for people a little bit more down to Earth who know that in REAL life, most people would be no match for zombies. It's a movie for people who don't have a heart attack if someone actually is depicted as having a real relationship for more than two seconds in a horror movie instead of just having gratuitous snippets of sex for teen eye candy in-between gloriously slaughtering a gazillion zombies with a convenient set of airplane propellers or somesuch. Like I said, this is a movies for grown-ups, with a nice bit of humor added.

If you didn't like this movie (or didn't watch it because in the first 3 seconds there was no tough warrior-dude whacking zombies) please do everyone a favor and do not watch Better Off Zed, or Right At Your Door, and then rate them poorly too. You're not adult enough to appreciate them.