Zero

Set in a “post-post-apocalyptic” world where former zombies struggle to reintegrate.

Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.

Ralph Burton is a miner who is trapped for several days as a result of a cave-in. When he finally manages to dig himself out, he realizes that all of mankind seems to have been destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. He travels to New York City only to find it deserted. Making a life for himself there, he is flabbergasted to eventually find Sarah Crandall, who also managed to survive. Together, they form a close friendship until the arrival of Benson Thacker who has managed to pilot his small boat into the city's harbor. At this point, tensions rise between the three, particularly between Thacker, who is white, and Burton, who is black.

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers' half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.

Black drops fall from the water faucets, peek through the drains, and flood the city. Sisters Paula and Teresa, cornered in their apartment, can do nothing but observe as that strange substance takes hold of their lives. Hypnotized, with nowhere to go, they come into contact with the liquid. Gradually, reality begins to distort and they get lost in it.

In a new, predatory ice age, two brothers search for a place to call home.

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.

In a post-apocalyptic world, humanity lives in small settlements whose main activity is to produce electricity.

Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.

Cannibal Clown Killer is an 80's style post-apocalyptic landscape where half the earth's population has been killed off by a bacteria which contaminated gluten food filler and MSG products. Of those who did not die they awoke to a new nightmare, half the survivors had been turned into man-eating mad clowns hell-bent on consuming the world. In the dawn of this new world filled with blood, horrors, and painted faces a single female warrior has emerged. With a blade at her back, this nameless hero tracks across this wilderness saving those she can while on her quest for the clown that killed her parents. Happy Jack.

In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, known as Kabane, using powerful armored trains. (Compilation film of the first half of the original TV series.)

In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, known as Kabane, using powerful armored trains. (Compilation film of the second half of the original TV series.)

After a mishandled pandemic sparks political revolution, a young American couple (Emily and David) escape to a remote jungle village where their tepid romance is reawakened by a vow to seek ultimate pleasure before taking each other's fate in their own hands.

After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of an unlikely ocean friend.

Inside a cold and rusty bunker, Irina and Georgi endure the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. Georgi´s heavy radiation sickness and imminent death prompts Irina to repair his old and beloved guitar so he can hear it one last time.

Apoptosis tells the story of the last living human in the world, after a lethal virus devastates all of humanity; it will accompany both her grief over losing her partner and her inner paranoia about possibly not being completely alone.

In a world where there is hardly any life left, Marta must protect her son Samuel from the dangerous world that surrounds them. Everything changes when a curious survivor arrives at her precious home.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a young man, J.D., and a detached hermit, Henry, attempt to form a friendship in the midst of swirling suspicions about J.D.'s checkered past and the threat of unseen invaders from the outside world.