Netflix Minute is a weekly feature highlighting a title from Netflix's catalog of instant view films. If you want to spend a night snuggled up with a bag of popcorn and don't want to drive to the video store, this is for you.
I should admit something right away... I'm not a big fan of horror movies. It's not as though I don't respect them for a lack of cinematic value or anything pretentious like that; I simply don't really like to feel scared. There are exceptions to this rule as there are with any broad matter of opinion, in this case the offenders are zombie films. There's a fundamental dynamic of humanity that's questioned in such films, asking the viewer how they might react in such a hopeless situation when it's difficult to know who to trust. In recent years, the archetypal zombie flick has been gently altered in key ways, often adding some complexity to the barebones "reanimation + flesh eating" formula by means of viral outbreaks and such. One such attempt at altering the classic formula was made in Breck Eisner's latest, The Crazies.
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