4. The Battery (2012)

When The Battery premiered at the Telluride Horror Show in 2012, audiences were relieved to be watching a horror flick that focused on humanity rather than the undead.  Brainless zombie carnage has become the norm in horror, but I think The Walking Dead struck a chord with people and soon new zombie films were hitting the scene with a little more on their minds than blood and guts.  When a zombie apocalypse takes over all of the New England area, two former baseball players are forced to wander the countryside in search of any means of survival.  One is adapting to this newfound apocalypse, but the other just wants a normal life.  In many ways, The Battery is a metaphor for choosing to live or die.  In this new world, batteries are the last artifact of how things used to be, of the normal life.  Once they are gone, back to the Stone Age.  It’s this reality that separates the living from the dead, choosing to go on with a life of hardship or fading out with the old world you once knew.  The Battery is top-notch indy horror that really has something to say and is sure to satisfy those in search of something different. 

Two Survivors find themselves stuck in their car by a zombie horde.  (The Battery, 2012)