The Survivalist

TheCinemaAdventurist

Fascinating post apocalyptic story and great action pieces with meditative scenes layered excellently on top of each other.

†. Kennedy Pope

Stephen Fingleton's directorial debut is a tightly wound thriller that maintains its tension through its harrowing silence. There is a constant uncertainty behind any character's motive, and by extension their survival (as the title would suggest). It becomes a bit uncharacteristically conventional in the last 20 minutes, which completely loses the direction that the rest of the film had built; even so, great watch.

Pymo

A sensual post-apocalyptic dream

dave gunn

A truly tense and gripping post-Apocalypse film that spares us all of the bullshit.

MATTEO BITTANTI

An impressive debut. Fingleton has obviously read Cormac McCarthy's The Road. And no, it's not a criticism.

wi.bi

visually stunning, haunting us every single scene. beautiful, shocking & heartbreaking! this is debut writing and directing!

OFF_FRAME

The survivalist was both mesmerising to watch and and an exquisitely crafted first feature for the first half. Things then fell apart with convenient scripting, poor extras casting and blood effects and an unconvincing attempt at poetry with the harmonica through-line. The leads were all decent. 2.5 stars

Stefan Drees

Much better than I thought after reading some reviews. Fingleton builds up tension and atmospere through silence and camera movement. I appreciate that he sparsely uses music. I also found the end convincing.