40 ACRES – Review by Lynn Venhaus
Gritty and gripping, 40 Acres is set in a grim post-apocalyptic world where the battleground is a family farm. Those who have survived a famine and second Civil War are not fighting zombies, aliens or nuclear fallout, but other humans with self-preservation on their mind. At the onset, title cards tell us that a fungus pandemic killed 98% of the animal biosphere. That was 14 years earlier, thus sparked a food disaster, followed by a war two years later, then a global famine. The most precious commodity is farmland, where people can grow food. And people want it, at all costs.
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