A moody, engaging end-of-the-world horror-drama, if a bit too apocalypse-lite.
Comment
12/11/09
Carriers (2009)
60
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:15
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.6/10
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Sep 4, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $90,820
Synopsis: Piper Perabo, Chris Pine, Emily VanCamp, and Josh Berry star in this apocalyptic tale of a viral pandemic that sweeps across the United States, and four fleeing friends who discover that they are... [More]
Starring: Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo, Emily VanCamp
Director: Alex Pastor, David Pastor
Get This Movie
Rent DVD
Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.
Buy DVD
Reviews for Carriers
This thoughtful, low-key exploration of our darker survival instincts is too conventional and unfocused to fully engage our emotions.
12/11/09
Diverting and well made with solid performances, but Carriers adds nothing new.
12/11/09
Plays like Zombieland's humourless twin: with none of the gags and, unfortunately, not many of its genuine moments of tension.
12/11/09
Sadly it loses track of its own best ideas, pledging itself to a dreary set of surviving characters whose choices carry no charge.
12/11/09
In lacking both subtley and specatcle... Carriers timidly takes its place in the realms of forgettable science-fiction fodder.
12/11/09
A gritty low-budget mix of some of the best bits from Mad Max, Outbreak and Night Of The Living Dead, it ticks all the boxes in a refreshingly snappy 84 minute runtime.
12/11/09
The anti-Zombieland – a darker, more intense look at humanity.
12/11/09
Never less than engrossing, this is one trip you won't want to make.
12/11/09
Die-hard horror fans may find this a little on the tame side, while Pucci’s survival rules have a lot in common with Jesse Eisenberg’s in Zombieland. But it’s still a well-crafted gripper, with a nice line in gallows humour.
12/11/09
Very much horror-lite, here's a movie crying out for more claret to ramp up the sense of dread. Still, when dealing with the awful life-or-death decisions the survivors face, it's grimly effective.
12/11/09
Carriers is grimmer than necessary.
12/11/09
The movie has as much depth as the single piece of paper on which the script was obviously written.
12/11/09
A queasy mixture of survivalist machismo and mawkish piety.
12/11/09
The lean running time leaves little room to develop the characters or deepen the story but Carriers is a decently done doomsday B-movie.
12/11/09
An enjoyably dark, emotionally gripping thriller.
12/11/09
Well-made but not particularly inventive, this post-apocalyptic thriller is like a college road movie crossed with Mad Max. The cast is much better than this thin script deserves, but the film does generate some great jolts.
12/11/09
It's a zombie movie without any zombies, which works about as well as a martial arts film where nobody gets punched in the teeth.
12/11/09
It's no candidate for greatness, but it deserves to find an audience among connoisseurs of doomsday cinema.
12/11/09
it abandons these models of action, comedy and the supernatural, preferring instead to root its horror in the grimly realistic human drama of four random wanderers gradually losing everyone and everything that they hold dear.
11/04/09
Latest News for Carriers
July 19, 2009:
Trailer & Poster review 
More...
July 01, 2009:
Trailer Bulletin: Carriers
After years of delays, Paramount Vantage has released a trailer for the viral pandemic thriller "Carriers," reaching theaters September 4. More...
RT On Current TV
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
MSN's Year in Review
Take a look at MSN's choices for the Top 10 films of 2009.
40 Best Films of the 2000s
Last week, Moviefone offered us their worst films of the 2000s. Now see their 40 best!
Tarantino's Characters
Hollywood.com explores why QT's characters resonate so well with audiences.
10 Questions For Zac Efron
The Me and Orson Welles star answers reader questions on TIME.com.
Top 20 of the Decade
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
IGN RSS Feeds