A plane bound for Paris carries a strange cooler in the cargo hold, which due to severe turbulence opens releasing what is inside. For the passengers, the nightmare begins.
If in other zombie movies the dead walked the earth, Scott Thomas, a first-time director, casts them in an airspace within a cramped location with no escape route, and thus much more claustrophobic by the time the spread of the contagion begins.
The first thirty minutes of the film (focused on character profile) flow slowly but then the pace suddenly increases to maximum levels of tension and gore.
And it is during the havoc wreaked aboard the aircraft that the director indulges in quotations and references pertaining to all the horror imagery of the past 20 years: the short times with which the contagion occurs are reminiscent of Lamberto Bava's Demons, as are the scenes in which the zombies crawl through the air ducts (a sequence also reminiscent of Ridley Scott's Alien) and between the rows of seats on the plane; while the strange container that opens up clearly refers to Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead...
The make-up of the zombies is of a fairly high standard, as are the special effects curated by Brian Wade that embellish the blood sprays, slashings, cannibalistic feasts, and amputations.
A hellish spectacle that will gladden the spirits of horrorphiles.
