Old People

Old People

A woman who's returned home with her two kids to attend her sister's wedding must suddenly defend their lives against older people on a killing spree.

  • Released: 2022-10-07
  • Runtime: 101 minutes
  • Genre: Horror
  • Stars: Melika Foroutan, Stephan Luca, Bianca Nawrath, Otto Emil Koch, Louie Betton, Daniela Galbo, Maxine Kazis, Marvin Schulze, Richard Manualpillai, Anna Unterberger
  • Director: Andy Fetscher
 Comments
  • reasonablewoman - 22 June 2024
    Promotes archaic beliefs
    There are two main problems with the movie: the believability of the characters, and the fact that it seems to me to endorse patriarchy and extreme conservatism.

    The dialogue is written soap-opera style. People simply don't behave or speak the way they're written in this movie.

    The message is that we're wreaking divine havoc on ourselves by getting divorced. There are some scares thrown in, but that's pretty much the plot line that all of the characters discuss amongst each other.

    The one redeeming quality is that it's a creative take on the classic zombie movie. The old people who become murderers don't have any backstory, and the makeup is over the top, so it feels like you're watching a zombie movie.
  • tknmzombie - 11 June 2023
    Respect your elders, or at least fear them
    The idea that the degradation that continues to occur in our care facilities for the elderly...just continues to a point that it seems we throw old folks away and throw away the key is very much the premise here.

    This, what seems like, abandoned village, has an even more abandoned retirement home full of the elderly. As well there seems to be quite a few old folks still living in the village, but very few young people.

    The few young folks that we see in our cast, are either here to attend a wedding. Or they are somehow employed by this old folks home (or both).

    The night of the wedding, the residents can hear the frivolity happening at the reception, imagining the fun being had. Their nurses aide on duty was quite a rude and nasty follow, telling them they weren't welcome to the wedding, nor could they stay up to evesdrop on the fun.

    Something happened that night. And it couldn't have just been this jerk of a nurses aide (as we find out in the prologue this is happening everywhere). Is it a virus, a curse, the end of the world? Who knows. But instead of zombies or vampires. The elderly have had enough of the BS, and for some reason they have regained extra strength and stamina to do some revenge killings.

    And it is creapy as heck, and brutal in some aspects.

    Our primary characters are left to question if they can trust their own elderly family member (in fact the whole world has this issue) as some can "fight" what is happening to them, that is telling them to be violent...while others can't stop themselves from murdering their whole families and friends.

    And we have no idea who is who, or for how long.