You want justice? Overcome the monsters of the past first.
The film takes place during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. After the Kakhovka dam is blown up, a detachment of Ukrainian soldiers led by a female fighter with the call sign Mara finds themselves in a secret Soviet bunker at the bottom of a reservoir where the USSR conducted human experiments during the Cold War. The consequences of these experiments are still in the bunker in the form of the half-living corpses of Soviet soldiers. Now, in order to survive, Ukrainians need to defeat the Soviet zombies, their own fear, as well as overcome internal disputes and trust each other.
Director: Oleksii Taranenko
Writers: Yaroslav Voytseshek
Netflix"The Dam" could be said to be as much a poltical statement, as it is a zombie action, horror flick. Given this film has been made, at a time when Ukraine is at war with Russia, its tones, perhaps unsurprisingly, are political in a way that favours Ukraine's role in the confli…
