Carriers: Critic Reviews

Plays like Zombieland's humourless twin: with none of the gags and, unfortunately, not many of its genuine moments of tension.

Put into extremely limited release by Paramount Vantage after spending years in studio lockdown, Carriers has moments of genuinely communicable horror and thus deserves better than a de facto theatrical quarantine.

Gloom, not thrills, in sci-fi drama of worldwide plague.

A little more realistic than a zombie flick. Some renegade virus could make the world a "survival of the fittest" ordeal. A very interesting story with some nice reveals. Paul Chambers, CNN.

It's like Zombieland, but without the laughs . . . or the zombies.

A thoughtful effort, a meditative treatise on the ethics of survival in a land where all hope is lost.

Carriers is grimmer than necessary.

Never less than engrossing, this is one trip you won't want to make.

Diverting and well made with solid performances, but Carriers adds nothing new.

Die-hard horror fans may find this a little on the tame side, while Pucci's survival rules have a lot in common with Jesse Eisenberg's in Zombieland. But it's still a well-crafted gripper, with a nice line in gallows humour.

A moody, engaging end-of-the-world horror-drama, if a bit too apocalypse-lite.

A gritty low-budget mix of some of the best bits from Mad Max, Outbreak and Night Of The Living Dead, it ticks all the boxes in a refreshingly snappy 84 minute runtime.

Well-made but not particularly inventive, this post-apocalyptic thriller is like a college road movie crossed with Mad Max. The cast is much better than this thin script deserves, but the film does generate some great jolts.

Sadly it loses track of its own best ideas, pledging itself to a dreary set of surviving characters whose choices carry no charge.

Very much horror-lite, here's a movie crying out for more claret to ramp up the sense of dread. Still, when dealing with the awful life-or-death decisions the survivors face, it's grimly effective.

It's a zombie movie without any zombies, which works about as well as a martial arts film where nobody gets punched in the teeth.

It's no candidate for greatness, but it deserves to find an audience among connoisseurs of doomsday cinema.

In lacking both subtley and specatcle... Carriers timidly takes its place in the realms of forgettable science-fiction fodder.

The anti-Zombieland - a darker, more intense look at humanity.

The lean running time leaves little room to develop the characters or deepen the story but Carriers is a decently done doomsday B-movie.

A queasy mixture of survivalist machismo and mawkish piety.

This thoughtful, low-key exploration of our darker survival instincts is too conventional and unfocused to fully engage our emotions.

An enjoyably dark, emotionally gripping thriller.

The movie has as much depth as the single piece of paper on which the script was obviously written.

it abandons these models of action, comedy and the supernatural, preferring instead to root its horror in the grimly realistic human drama of four random wanderers gradually losing everyone and everything that they hold dear.