Herd

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Herd

Released Oct 13, 2023

1h 37m

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When Jamie Miller and her wife, Alex Kanai, try to save their failing marriage by going on a canoe trip in rural Missouri, they find themselves stranded after an accident. Alex breaks her leg during a canoe flip and they must slowly make their way to the nearest small town for help. Upon arriving they find it has been overrun by virus-infected "Heps" and extreme right wing local militias who are battling them. The leader of one of the groups, "Big John Gruber", shuttles them to safety at his bunker where they are welcomed by a seemingly friendly group of locals, but after witnessing personal and gruesome horrors, the women know they must escape. Jamie and Alex now find themselves on the run, caught between the group that saved them, a competing militia, and the growing infected Hep threat.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Quite often, the factions in zombie stories cleave along class lines or ethnicity. But Herd mixes the formula up in a number of interesting ways...

Rated: 3/5

Oct 17, 2023

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Bee Delores

B-Sides & Badlands

Steven Pierce’s Herd treads familiar territory while expanding zombie mythos.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 3, 2024

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Kat Hughes

THN

Despite its best efforts, Herd unfortunately leaves the viewer wanting more thanks to a meandering plot with an unclear focus.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 30, 2024

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Drew Tinnin

Dread Central

If Herd was really about a horde of zombies, it would be going under a different title altogether. The outbreak is just an excuse to explore what happens when human beings are suddenly thrown into a pressure cooker.

Rated: 2.5

Feb 17, 2024

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Abbie Bernstein

Assignment X

A zombie film with a new perspective.

Rated: B-

Oct 30, 2023

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

Herd subverts standard zombie tropes while grounding the narrative in a touching queer romance. That it all mostly works is thanks to two solid turns from Ellen Adair and Mitzi Akaha.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 23, 2023

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Just not a good movie. Just boring, drags, no effective jump scares or anything new about zombies. It's predictable and drags on.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

07/26/25

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Andy N

I assume all the high ratings are paid. 93 minutes I'll never get back.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

10/06/24

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Christian C

"tHiS mOViE iS abSoOLuTeLY tARrIBLe!!!..." All of the people whining about this are the exact types of humans you'd describe as a "herd animal." And none of them - for all of their talk about how stupid horror movie protagonists are - would last a day during a swine flu epidemic if they had only their "survival skills" to rely on.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/02/24

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Danny W

This is absolutely one of the worst things ever. I would not even call it a movie as it does not deserve to be called that. A complete load of Bull 💩

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/28/24

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Gil R

Amazing cast and not your stereotypical gory, nasty slasher zombie movie. Sometimes You will get sucked into the story and forget it's even a zombie movie. Very "The Walking Deadish"

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/24

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LeoNX

not that good didn't enjoy it much story pace was weird

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

12/25/23

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Synopsis

When Jamie Miller and her wife, Alex Kanai, try to save their failing marriage by going on a canoe trip in rural Missouri, they find themselves stranded after an accident. Alex breaks her leg during a canoe flip and they must slowly make their way to the nearest small town for help. Upon arriving they find it has been overrun by virus-infected "Heps" and extreme right wing local militias who are battling them. The leader of one of the groups, "Big John Gruber", shuttles them to safety at his bunker where they are welcomed by a seemingly friendly group of locals, but after witnessing personal and gruesome horrors, the women know they must escape. Jamie and Alex now find themselves on the run, caught between the group that saved them, a competing militia, and the growing infected Hep threat.

Director: Steven Pierce
Producer: James Allerdyce, Bret Carr, Lori Kay, Matt Mundy, Steven Pierce
Screenwriter: James Allerdyce, Steven Pierce
Distributor: Dark Sky Films
Production Co: Framework Productions
Genre: Action, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 13, 2023, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 13, 2023
Runtime: 1h 37m

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