31 Days of Halloween 2018: Martin Freeman Carries Precious 'Cargo' Through A Zombie Infested Australia

[Once again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded (usually with the help of a few other writers). Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can pull it off this year.]  

Call them zombies, call them infected, it doesn’t really matter. If you get bit by one, you’ve got about 48 hours before you become one yourself. You’ll have orangeish goo pouring out of your eyes, mouth and nose, an urge to attack and eat humans, and the need to occasionally bury your head in the ground or otherwise get yourself out of the light. Those are the rules of the pandemic depicted in the new Australian horror film (and Netflix original) CARGO.

Andy (Martin Freeman) and Kay (Susie Porter) have been riding out the apocalypse on a house boat they found. The plan is to stay afloat until they can reach a military base, but food is running low, and they have to worry not just about themselves, but their one year old daughter Rosie.

31 Days of Halloween 2018: These 'Ghost Stories' Can Even Scare A Skeptic

[Once again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded (usually with the help of a few other writers). Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can pull it off this year.]  

 Despite being an avid, long time horror fan, the truth is very few horror movies scare me. Like anyone, a good jump scare can startle me, and some of the more boundary-pushing films out there most definitely disturb and/or disgust me. But in terms of shivers-down-the-spine terror, not much gets to me.

GHOST STORIES got to me. More than once.

Written and directed by Andy Nyman and Jeremy Dawson, GHOST STORIES is a British horror anthology film. It’s in the tradition of similar films that were in their prime in the 1970’s when Amicus studios released such titles as THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORROR. But with its subtler brand of ghostly thrills and chills, it owes more of a debt to 1941’s DEAD OF NIGHT.