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The Night Eats the World (2018)

The Night Eats the World poster
Original title
La nuit a dévoré le monde
Directed by
Dominique Rocher
Genre
horror film, post-apocalyptic film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
16
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 812 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man named Sam wakes up in a Paris apartment building to find a zombie apocalypse has taken over the city. He is trapped inside, surviving alone and trying to make sense of his new reality.

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What happens

The Night Eats the World (French: La nuit a dévoré le monde) is a 2018 French zombie film directed by Dominique Rocher and written by Jérémie Guez, Guillaume Lemans, and Rocher, based on the novel of the same name by Pit Agarman. The film stars Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, and Denis Lavant, and follows Sam (Danielsen Lie) in the midst of a zombie apocalypse that suddenly overtakes Paris. The film premiered at the Angers Film Festival on 13 January 2018, and was theatrically released in France on 7 March 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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