A Look at Matthew Hope’s The Vanguard

I’ve been reading about Matthew Hope’s “The Vanguard”, the latest horror movie out of the UK for some time now, with a lot of the horror sites seeming to really dig it. After seeing the trailer for the film (below), I have to admit that yeah, this thing looks like it has promise, and Max, the main character, has the makings of a franchise action hero (if he survives the movie, that is) ala Mad Mad or Riddick from “Pitch Black”. If nothing else, that scene where he goes ballistic with two tomahawks on an “infected” is just nuts. Plus, when you can look that badass while riding a bicycle, that’s just pure badassness right there, folks.

More about the plot:

In UK director Matthew Hope’s chilling post-apocalyptic suvivors tale THE VANGUARD, the world is in chaos — 2015 — the last known oil fields have been vanquished, over-population has reached critical levels and mankind is about to become a thing of the past.

Out of this apocalyptic nightmare, an entity known only as the Corporation devised a course of action to cull the human race and initialize a depopulation program. But the drug they created to kill instead reduces humans to a primitive ape-like state, now known as Biosyns. Their sight reduced to virtual blindness, the Biosyns rely on scent and sound to survive, running wild in the unpopulated countryside.

But for Max — a young man cast adrift into the wilderness to live as a hunter/gatherer– the Biosyns are the enemy, and must be fought in order to preserve his very existence. Max has forged a life without human contact, and every day is a battle to stay alive.

Soon the Biosyns begin to evolve — learning first to communicate, then banding together, their vision slowly returning — and now they’re coming for Max.

Unbeknownst to Max, the Corporation has dispatched a group of genetically engineered soldiers — known as Trackers — to wipe out the Biosyns and to hunt down and kill Max, fearing he may be the antidote to the world they created…

More about the film from its Official Site.