The Battery (2012)

Film details

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Year2012
CountryUSA
GenreZombie
TypeMovie
Runtime101m
CastJeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim, Niels Bolle, Alana O'Brien, Jamie Pantanella, Larry Fessenden, Kelly McQuade, Eric Simon, Ben Pryzby, Sarah Allen

Review

"The problem with most modern zombie films is that the writers forget that the humans should be the centerpiece of the film, and not the zombies. Director Jeremy Gardner's "The Battery" is the prime example of how to handle this kind of genre entertainment with a low budget. Rather than flood the screen with zombies, the monsters are used sparingly and for great moments of terror and memorable scenes, while Gardner focuses primarily on character, building two complex and unique people we can love and hate, in many ways." - Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0005
HIGHEST#5812017
LOWEST#1,5172021
#506#1,049#1,592TOP 1,000201520162017201820192020202120232024202520262015 — #796 · Top 1,0002016 — #635 · Top 1,0002017 — #581 · Top 1,0002019 — #1,271 · Outside Top 1,0002020 — #1,486 · Outside Top 1,0002021 — #1,517 · Outside Top 1,0002023 — #1,275 · Outside Top 1,0002024 — #1,322 · Outside Top 1,0002025 — #791 · Top 1,0002026 — #829 · Top 1,000
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

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The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS RANKED5
HIGHEST#822015
LOWEST#4832023
#43#324#604Top 250Top 50020152020202120232024202520262021 — Not ranked · Outside Top 5002024 — Not ranked · Outside Top 5002015 — #822020 — #892023 — #4832025 — #2342026 — #259
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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