Aw, the end of the world. The concept rarely conjures up images of floating through the clouds in some stony bliss. And forget about those left behind… Post-apocalyptic thriller The Day doesn't appear to spare calamity at least with this group of unlucky souls who find themselves in some backwater. The trailer has a hefty share of axes, knives, guns, machetes, slashes and grunts to feed your inner-misanthrope.
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Mickey (Michael Biehn), the paranoid building superintendent unwillingly responsible for allowing the characters in The Divide to survive the apocalypse, didn't plan for or want company. And who can blame him? These people are awful. Like so many groups left in a survival situations (at least in movies, books and MTV reality shows), they shed their veneer of civilization with alarming rapidity as their lives take a turn for the worse.
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In a career spanning three decades Michael Biehn has notched a number of iconic roles in beloved genre fare, from future freedom fighter Kyle Reese in The Terminator to Corporal Hicks in Aliens to one of his personal favorites, Tombstone villain Johnny Ringo. And that work has borne him witness to his share of tense, chaotic sets under some of the strongest personalities in the business. But no shoot of Biehn’s was as intense as the friction-filled production of this week’s The Divide, Xavier Gens’ bleak horror tale about strangers trapped in a basement after the apocalypse, which Biehn says was fueled by the “hatred” and “bitterness” of combative actors turning on each other under claustrophobic conditions.
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