Rent Hell (2011)

Bleak - Hell review by sb

FILM & REVIEW Very effective if almost unbearably bleak post apocalyptic German film. Due to sunspot activity the solar output has risen catastrophically with median global temperatures rising by over 10 degrees causing civilisation to crash and the few survivors reduced to a feral existence. Maria and her younger sister Lenonie are driving north where there are rumours of water with Phillip providing the transport . They encounter Tom who initially fights them but they release they are all better off together . They encounter a road block and are attacked with Leoni and Tom captured. Maria follows and in a church encounters a kindly old lady who offer her shelter on her nearby farm but Maria realises that nothing is what it seems and with all the livestock dead they need something else for the food chain. It’s very well shot in overexposed and bleached out film - you can really feel the searing heat with solid performances that lift it out the out derivative but dear me it’s a bleak take on the human condition - 4/5