An indie horror film titled What We Become premieres tonight in Westland, Michigan, where it was shot entirely.
The film boasts a post-apocalyptic setting, something the creator of the film agrees has been overdone in television and movies. With the premise of the film, however, it does stand in its own corner.
In this film there aren't any zombies; instead, the issue is that anything green that grows from the Earth becomes poisonous to humans, leaving a set amount of food left for the world with everyone knowing that there will inevitably be a foreseeable finish to their lives.
You can see the full video interview with Kyle Kimlick and Jacob Piszar below! We've also included a lengthy quote from the conversation below.
Kyle Kimlick: When COVID hit, me and none of my closest friends were working at all. So I encouraged us to do something with the time and make a movie and do something fun at the time. It's funny everyone else was relaxing and we were working harder than ever. I've never seen so much passion come out of us. We were getting up at 7 AM to go shoot in the woods, rearranging entire rooms and hiding couches in bedrooms and stuff, we tore up the whole place, made a 1 hour movie that we posted on YouTube and we had the time of our lives.
So, coming off of that, the idea came around to do an apocalypse, but something differently than a lot of the rehashed territory that comes out nowadays. You've got a lot of zombie shows and a lot of post-apocalyptic movies and it's a very well-treaded territory and we wanted to see how we could actually put our own spin on it while doing it with a micro-budget. We're paying for everything out of pocket so we don't have a lot of big sets, we don't have money for effects.
So we came up with this idea that it's an apocalypse where everything that is green that comes from the Earth is poisonous to people. Animals that eat the green are fine, but if humans eat those animals they die as well. So it's this very targeted strike, if you will, aimed at humanity. And everybody who is left can only survive by eating food that was packaged before the date everything went bad. So everybody is on a time limit. Looking ahead, for everybody, the food will run out. We loved this idea of people trying to find purpose and identity in this world they don't recognize knowing that they wouldn't be able to keep going.
The world as we know it has ended, but not in any way that was foretold. Taking place over four seasons, filmed entirely in Michigan, What We Become tells the story of humanity after the apocalypse, but is this the end? Or only just the beginning?
What We Become's second screening is on May 18th at 6 PM at the MJR in Westland, Michigan and you can get tickets here.