The Divide

This movie was on my radar for almost a decade. I have enjoyed the director's first feature film Frontier(s) n his second Hitman. Found his Crucifixion lame n havent yet seen Cold Skin. Man, this move is still enjoyabl after so many years of its release. Michael Biehn is terrific as the superintendent of a bldg. After a nuke bomb, residents of a building manage to rush into the building's bomb shelter before the superintendent seals the door. The group acclimatizes to the cramped surroundings while the superintendent asserts his dominance over the shelter and its inhabitants.

The concept of the bunker due to the fear of apocalypse, nuke or aliens is done similarly in the seg starring Lou Diamond Phillips in the movie Sanitarium n also in Cloverfield Lane.

This film follows in that genre of French horror, most fans of horror appreciate. In your face horror which often deals with unpleasant issues, while being graphical and nasty.

As with any good horror film it should shock and make you cringe, then making you question. This horror film is no different, definitely not for the fainthearted or those who will take offence from its themes. Hell is other people and when forced to survive how low will they sink into depravity, while festering in their own stink.

6.5 out of 10 worth the watch just don't go complaining afterwards because it made you question your integrity

"This ain't exactly the garden of Eden." After a nuclear bomb is dropped and earth is uninhabitable a group of tenants of an apartment are forced to live together in the basement of the building. What starts off as a tense situation quickly explodes into something much, much worse and everyone's views of each other change. This is not what I was expecting. I thought this would be more of a Sci-Fi type movie and what it was was a very disturbing look at what different people will do when pushed to the edge. For those that have seen the movie "Blindness" you will know what to expect. For those that haven't be warned, this is a very, very disturbing look at the human condition and makes you wonder what you would do in this situation. Overall, more disturbing then anything. Not bad, but you must be ready for what you will see. I give it a B-.

I don't know why this rating is so low. If you like the dark side of humanity you will love this. It's totally believable and a great take on humanity at its lowest as opposed to the happily every after commercial stuff.

I don't usually write reviews but I found this movie deserved one. I am a fan of the apocalyptic "end of the world" type movies so I gave it a try. The acting is phenomenal, great actors and they all play their roles so well. Some disturbing scenes, but I found it to be a realistic idea of the human nature in a life or death situation & how our true nature may possibly reveal itself. The divide is intriguing & kept me watching, not a movie I'd suggest before bed, I watched it once, don't think I will again, but worth the watch.