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The movie centers on a man, a hermit of careful habits whose small garden is closely guarded, fertilized by the bodies of those who have threatened him. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
The Survivalist is a spare, foreboding thriller about a near-paranoid thirty-ish isolate scratching a subsistence living in a Northern Ireland forest following the disintegration of organised society.
Oppressive, unforgiving and cold to its core, director Stephen Fingleton uses the Irish landscape to evoke his thoughtful and terrifying dystopian vision.
It is one of the more original post-apocalyptic films to be released as of late and is a curiously thought-provoking one at that, but its bleakness will not appeal to all audiences.
A post-apocalyptic drama as stripped-down as its title suggests, The Survivalist envisions end times in which each encounter with a new human entails a hard calculus of risk versus advantage.