The Battery Page #4

Synopsis: Two former baseball players, Ben (Jeremy Gardner) and Mickey (Adam Cronheim), cut an aimless path across a desolate New England. They stick to the back roads and forests to steer clear of the shambling corpses that patrol the once bustling cities and towns. In order to survive, they must overcome the stark differences in each other's personalities. Ben embraces an increasingly feral, lawless, and nomadic lifestyle while Mickey is unable to accept the harsh realities of the new world and longs for the creature comforts he once took for granted. A bed, a girl, and a safe place to live. When the men intercept a radio transmission from a seemingly thriving, protected community, Mickey will stop at nothing to find it, even though it is made perfectly clear that he is not welcome.
Director(s): Jeremy Gardner
  9 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
NOT RATED
Year:
2012
101 min
209 Views


There she goes!

The girl that kept you up nights!

Was she worth it?!

Huh?!

You watching?

You wait till we're gone

before you go after 'em.

If I see you again,

I'll kill you both.

They gotta, they gotta be

right around there, Mickey.

I watched them fall.

Yeah I know, but...

I don't know.

Yeah, okay.

Alright, just come on in.

We'll find 'em in the morning.

I'll give you one thing, Mick.

She wasn't no bull dyke.

You were right about that.

Benny.

Benny.

What, what? What, Mickey, what?

Did you hear that?

What?

Oh sh*t!

Oh sh*t, oh sh*t!

Where's the light?

Where's the flashlight?

Mickey calm down! Calm down, man.

Turn the-hit the headlights.

Oh!

- Oh no!

- Oh my God!

We gotta go.

We gotta go no, come on!

Ben, come on!

I can't Mickey, my

f***ing leg, man!

Just go!

Go!

Aghhh!

Oh, they're everywhere!

Mickey turn off the lights!

See if I can get any of

these motherfuckers.

Ahhh!

Ah, sh*t.

Jesus!

We, ugh! We have to

try to hot wire it!

What, hot wire the car?

We've only tried to do it a

dozen God damn times, Mickey.

There's gotta be a way.

It's just...

twisting wires.

Oh, yeah, in the movies.

In the f***ing movies it's twisting

wires Mickey you're gonna get in there,

start stripping wires, and

you're gonna f*** everything up!

It's already f***ed up!

Everything is f***ed up!

- They keys are gone!

- Yeah. And why is that?

Why is that?

What?

Why are they keys gone?

You told me to get

them tomorrow morning.

No, no why are they in the

f***ing field, Mickey?

Why did I get shot?

So you're blaming this on me?

I'm saying...

they told us that

we weren't welcome

and you couldn't let it go.

I told you not to

sugarcoat this girl.

That it was gonna bite ya,

and now look where we are.

Maybe if we just lay low, and

shut up, they'll go away.

They don't go away, Mickey.

You know that.

But shut up anyway.

Hey.

How much water you think a person's

supposed to have everyday.

I have no idea.

How many days you think that is?

Hey.

- Hey.

- What's up? What?

What about what we did

up in Pittsfield?

What about it?

Do you think it would work?

No.

I don't see how.

I mean, that was a two

story house, Mickey.

There was a little bit more

wiggle room, don't you think?

This sound is driving me crazy.

It's kinda nice, I think.

Soothing.

Like rain on a tin roof.

You done?

Can't look at their

f***ing faces anymore.

Let's see, what do you

want, you want uh, tuna?

Luncheon loaf?

Chicken I think.

Umm, chicken I guess.

Okay, you wanna split

a can of peas, too?

Sure.

Oh wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, don't...

don't eat that.

Lemme get that...

Oh, come on. That's disgusting.

Yeah.

Wait till we have to

start saving our piss.

Shut up!

Shut up! Shut up! Shut the f*** up!

"Like rain on a tin roof. "

Shut up.

I have an idea.

Let's get shitfaced.

That's not an idea.

It's a great idea.

How's that gonna help?

I think we should celebrate.

What? What are you talking about?

Celebrate what?

I don't know.

Last night on earth, maybe?

That's depressing.

Okay!

It's the source of infection!

We figured it out!

We f***ing figured it out!

Oh my God!

No, no! Don't do the

other one! Don't!

- This one's really bad! It's really bad!

- I'm taking the socks off too!

- Not the socks!

- Ahhhh!

Come on! No! No! No!

Oh come on!

- Ewww

- It's not that bad.

It's not that bad!

Just say it man.

- Say what?

- Say it!

Say it! Say it! Say the "Z" word!

No.

- No way.

- Why not?

Because they're not real.

Oh they're f***ing real.

They're pretty f***ing real.

Come on, you know what I mean.

Let's do "Ro Shambo" you gotta

drink if you lose, alright?

- Oh! Come on!

- F*** you.

I'm trapped in a f***ing car.

And I wish I had...

air conditioning.

Okay, I wanna win one.

F***!

Let's switch it up.

Say they got fangs, and

they're sucking f***ing blood

and they're burning up in the sun.

And you have a crucifix,

and they can't eat garlic...

- What do you call 'em?

- F*** you!

Yeah, exactly. I'm just saying... if it

walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...

it's probably a f***ing zombie!

Ohhhh!

Trapped in a f***ing car,

I wish I had air conditioning,

balloons, cheese...

and dynamite.

I'm trapped in f***ing car...

and I wish I had air

conditioning, balloons, cheese,

dynamite,

and every Beatles album.

Yeah.

- Yeeeesssssss!

- Nooooooooo!

- Drink for beating me!

- Okay.

And then you just jump over

'em and you get the keys!

But I couldn't find

the keys when...

when there weren't

fifty f***ing zombies,

How am I supposed to...

- Wait a minute, wait.

- What?

What did you just say?

Say it again. Say it again.

- Ohhhh...

- Say it again.

What did you say? Say the word.

- Fifty...

- Say it.

- Zombies!

- Zombies! Ha ha haaa!

Alright. Okay, okay, okay.

I'm tired and I

wanna go to bed.

I had me a drink

about an hour ago

And it went straight

to my head.

Wherever I may roam,

by land, or sea, or foam,

you can always hear

me singing this song.

Show me the way to go home.

- Tomorrow.

- Tomorrow we die.

Okay.

Mickey, you can do this, man.

You can do it.

You say low.

And go hard.

You'll be fine.

Mickey?

If you don't find the keys,

don't come back.

I'm not leaving you here.

Ben.

I can do this.

Come on Mickey.

Come on, Mickey, man.

F***, f***.

Come on, Mickey. Come on, come on.

Come on, Mickey.

Benny!

Oh my God!

Mickey! Mickey!

Come on, buddy!

Come on!

Did you get 'em? Mickey!

Did you get 'em?!

Mick?

Mickey.

Mickey, did you get the keys?

Mick?

Mick, what's wrong?

Mickey, Mickey were you bit?

Oh my God!

Mickey, are you bit?!

Oh f***! Mickey!

- Oh Jesus!

- No Ben!

Mickey!

- Please Ben!

- Mickey!

Oh f***!

Ohh!

Oh God!

- Oh God!

- What do I do?!

What do I do?!

Ben, please!

Ben! What do I do, please!

Oh God dammit!

- Don't shut down...

- God dammit!

Please! Tell me what do I do?!

I'm scared!

Ben!

Ben, please don't shut down on me!

- Mickey!

- No!

Ben, no!

Put the gun away!

- You gotta get outta the car.

- No, you can't!

You gotta get outta the car, man...

- I can't!

- Get outta the f***ing car!

Mickey get out!

- You can't do this!

- I have to, Mickey!

You know it!

God dammit!

Please let me stay!

Get outta the f***ing car, Mickey!

- Please!

- Oh, God!

- Ben!

- Ohh!

- Ben!

- Oh my God!

Is anybody out there?

You know, me and Mickey we

were trapped in a house

for three months

when it all started.

Had to board up the windows.

Block out the sunlight.

You ever been inside,

in one place...

for that long?

Listening to the

same sound, all day.

Every day.

It does something to you.

Annie.

Are you listening?

I bet you are.

Oh I bet you are.

Mickey didn't make it.

Because of you.

You hear me?

It's funny.

How we finally got

outta that house.

We just opened the door.

They all tried to pile in

one side, and we just...

went out the other.

All that time.

And it was that easy.

Just...

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