{"id":42909,"date":"2026-10-08T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42909"},"modified":"2026-10-05T22:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:35:32","slug":"extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42909","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Extinction&#8221; (2015) starring Matthew Fox, Jeffrey Donovan and Quinn McColgan \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z100826review_extinction.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Extinction <\/i>(2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Miguel \u00c1ngel Vivas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Alberto Marini, Miguel \u00c1ngel Vivas; <\/strong>based on <em>Y pese a todo<\/em> by <strong>Juan de Dios Gardu\u00f1o<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Matthew Fox, Jeffrey Donovan, Quinn McColgan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>When the undead can evolve&#8230;no one is safe.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The zombie apocalypse came.\u00a0 Jack, his pregnant wife Emma and their friend Patrick were part of a two bus caravan trying to get to a safe zone.\u00a0 When the convoy was overrun by zombies, Emma was bitten.\u00a0 The baby was saved, but Emma died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jack and Patrick and baby Lu found refuge in a small remote deserted town.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nine years passed.\u00a0 The climate changed.\u00a0 Now it is perpetual winter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jack and Lu live in a house with boarded windows and security fencing.\u00a0 Patrick lives next door with his dog.\u00a0 Jack and Patrick are no longer friends and they rarely interact.\u00a0 Although they haven&#8217;t seen other people or zombies for years, Lu is safer with both men close.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They believe the zombies died off due to the cold.\u00a0 They&#8217;re soon to find out, they didn&#8217;t die out&#8230; they evolved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Extinction&#8217;s<\/em> opening is awesome.\u00a0 It&#8217;s everything you&#8217;d want. Quick concise character developement, tension, suspense and horror.\u00a0 \u00a0It then becomes more of a character study until the end when we get the zombie attack we&#8217;ve been waiting for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Extinction <\/i>(2015)<\/strong> rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z100826review_extinction2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extinction (2015) Director:\u00a0 Miguel \u00c1ngel Vivas Screenplay: \u00a0Alberto Marini, Miguel \u00c1ngel Vivas; based on Y pese a todo by Juan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,54,74,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view","category-zombies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43019,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42909\/revisions\/43019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}