Tag: Survival Against the Odds

Some stories strip everything away and ask one question: how does this person live through it? This tag collects reviews of survival stories, where character is revealed by what people do when rescue is not coming.

2010s

Stake Land (2010)

June 6, 2026

Jim Mickle's Stake Land uses vampires as backdrop for a melancholy survival drama. Sometimes the vampires are not the point.

2000s

30 Days of Night (2007)

June 6, 2026

Vampires descend on an Alaskan town facing a month without sunrise. The idea is so good it feels stolen from someone smarter.

2020s

The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

June 6, 2026

The Last Voyage of the Demeter earns its 6.5 by taking a few haunting pages from Dracula and building an entire film from them, with mixed but genuinely entertaining results. The film's great strength is its vision of Dracula as…

1960s

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

May 19, 2026

George Romero's 1968 zombie template. The genre's foundational document.

2010s

A Quiet Place (2018)

May 19, 2026

John Krasinski directs the post-apocalyptic horror about a family surviving in silence to avoid blind monsters that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place is John Krasinski's 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a family surviving in rural silence to avoid…

2000s

The Descent (2005)

May 19, 2026

Neil Marshall directs the story of six women on a caving expedition trapped in unmapped Appalachian caverns inhabited by predators. The Descent is Neil Marshall's 2005 British horror film depicting six women on a caving expedition who become trapped in…

1990s

Volcano (1997)

May 19, 2026

Mick Jackson's 1997 Los Angeles volcano. Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche.

2010s

Free Solo (2018)

May 19, 2026

Camera operators with PTSD from filming. The film was produced by National Geographic Documentary Films on a budget of approximately two million dollars and grossed approximately twenty-eight million dollars worldwide, winning the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.