Synopsis: Set in the present day within Paris, the story shows us a group of four characters taking over a condemned building. The four plan to take revenge on a criminal gang who were responsible for killing a police officer; one of the four is the deceased's pregnant lover, and they are all his former colleagues. The raid against this criminal gang quickly goes wrong as those they kill rise up to attack. The survivng gang leaders and the survivng characters join up to try and survive as they are surrounded by an undead horde. The lover, Aurore ends up in a situation of fighting for survival while killing her allies who are turning against her. When the battle seems to be over, only her and the gang leader survive so she takes revenge but the zombies are attracted to the gunshot sound and they approach her...
Trailer Analysis: This trailer establishes the story of the group of characters being pinned down in the condemned building by a horde of zombies. As a standard convention their are lots of close-ups on the characters faces so that as the trailer moves along we can quickly notice which faces are no longer around. The zombies' appearances are very stereotypical as they are coated in the blood of their victims and are slowly moving in a troglodytic fashion. Not much is shown as to the chronological order, as expected in horror trailers, and the trailer uses voice from the characters rather than a voice over or on-screen text. What is unusual in this trailer is that it has the trailer conventions of both a horror and action as the main focus for the trailer, aside from the zombies, is the shooting and chasing which is what we see in actions. We get a glimps of the vengeance-versus-survival theme of the film but it is not shown to us who survives and who dies. This trailer leaves much to the imagination of the viewer and attracts two audiences, the horror fan and the action fan. For horror films, the audience will want to know who survives and how people die, they will want to know how this films plans to kill zombies compared to others. The Action fan will want to know who the hero is and with what weapons the zombies are killed with. Using a hybridised genre allows the standard horror conventions to be exaggerated.
In summary, I believe that a horror-action genre is only sucessful as being a slasher or splatter film. The gore works well in this scenario but there is much lacking in the thrills and scares, it is very easy in a film such as this for it to become an action film with zombies rather than a scary zombie movie with guns and fighting. I have no doubt this would be an interesting film to watch and it effectively shows that it has a USP in the form of police working with criminals as well as a enormous number of zombie characters but I would expect that horror film enthusiasts would find it lacking anything of value to them
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