The Battery

The Battery (2012) is an American horror-drama written and directed by Jeremy Gardner — watch online on iFILM. Ben and Mickey, two former baseball players, are drifting through rural Connecticut after the zombie plague has already done its work. Most people are gone. These two are still stuck with each other.

Ben has adapted. He scavenges, sleeps rough, and deals with the undead without fuss. Mickey still has his headphones on. He hasn't accepted that the old world isn't coming back, and that tension — not the walking dead — drives the whole film. Then a female voice crackles through their walkie-talkie, and a bad situation gets complicated. Gardner and Adam Cronheim lead; the film was shot for a few thousand dollars.

Shot on almost nothing, it punches above its weight by caring more about its two characters than about the genre mechanics. The zombies are almost beside the point. Stream The Battery (2012) on iFILM.