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Alas, Cargo seems like a made-for-Netflix movie — it makes sense, in this context, that it is premiering on Netflix — watchable but also forgettable, after its dazzling opening third.

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It was developed, furthermore, from a short film that went viral, and like a lot of films made from shorts or from Saturday Night Live sketches , it feels like it lacks the legs to sustain the length of a feature. Cargo is worth watching, particularly for fans of horror cinema, but its aesthetic will be best served, I suspect, by the small screen.

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Pets in Victorian paintings — Egham, Surrey. The history of pets and family life — Egham, Surrey. Available editions United Kingdom. In Cargo, Martin Freeman plays Andy, a man who has to kill his wife after she turns into a zombie and travels across country with baby daughter Rosie on his back. Caren Pistorius as the ethereal-woman in the outback, Lorraine.


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We produce articles written by researchers and academics. Be part of The Conversation. All this boosts the impression of reality in one sense, although the mood is often less urgent than one might expect under the circumstances.

Freeman is an odd and not entirely successful casting choice More disturbing still are the images of Indigenous characters caged like animals: What emerges is a suggestive, allegorical notion: To put it another way, Cargo is a zombie movie made for viewers who don't like zombie movies.

This is no bad thing: Cargo is the Aussie zombie film for people who don't like zombie films. One by one, the group is either killed or pulled up into the clouds until only Rene is left. The aliens stop her and she is sprayed with the rain-like chemical, which turns out to be a cure for the infection.

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The aliens are actually there to keep the zombie infection from spreading. The "abducted" are floating in suspended animation above the clouds to keep them safe.

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Their job done, the aliens leave, unaware that Wayne Rob Jenkins , presumed dead, managed to escape by plane and will spread the infection after they left. The townspeople are rushed to the hospital to treat the injured. Unfortunately, Wayne transforms into a zombie, first infecting Marion and then spreading the plague once again. The film ends at Rene's farm where the survivors are staying.

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The final shot is of the farm with a fenced-in area nearby, containing the zombified residents of Berkeley. Rene stands guard with a four barreled shotgun and a gas mask, waiting for the return of the aliens.


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Roger Ebert said that " Undead is the kind of movie that would be so bad it's good, except it's not bad enough to be good enough. However, David Stratton reviewed the film for Variety said it was a "precociously inventive horror pic," although "the film's threatened humans aren't a very likeable bunch and a grievously overlong running time reps a definite downer.