The Survivalist
The movie centers on a man, a hermit of careful habits whose small garden is closely guarded, fertilized by the bodies of those who have threatened him. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
20 July 1983, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
November1993, Southwark, London, England, UK
1 January 1989, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, UK
March 11, 2016
Oppressive, unforgiving and cold to its core, director Stephen Fingleton uses the Irish landscape to evoke his thoughtful and terrifying dystopian vision.
February 09, 2016
A canny study of trust and loyalty.
May 20, 2016
It's a lean, grim and perfectly assembled thriller, a little gem in fact.
February 20, 2016
Post-apocalyptic thrillers don't come much leaner or meaner than Northern Irish director Stephen Fingleton's gripping debut feature The Survivalist.
May 20, 2016
It won't be to everyone's taste, but perky though it is not, it's a great piece of film-making.
May 15, 2017
A post-apocalyptic drama as stripped-down as its title suggests, The Survivalist envisions end times in which each encounter with a new human entails a hard calculus of risk versus advantage.
May 15, 2017
The Survivalist is a spare, foreboding thriller about a near-paranoid thirty-ish isolate scratching a subsistence living in a Northern Ireland forest following the disintegration of organised society.
April 19, 2016
A beautifully observed film about ugly human emotions and experiences, and a stunning example of how big a world can be sketched on a tiny budget.
July 19, 2016
Fingleton proves himself quite the man for doing doomsday on a shoestring and taking his cast to some very dark places.
February 18, 2016
It speaks volumes through its silence and lingers in the memory for a long while after watching.
January 03, 2017
It is one of the more original post-apocalyptic films to be released as of late and is a curiously thought-provoking one at that, but its bleakness will not appeal to all audiences.
