The Horde is a French horror film which begins in copland but makes a swift From Dusk Till Dawn-style left turn very early on. It opens gritt­ily, with grizzled police colliding with brutal drug dealers in a sordid high rise as they attempt to take revenge for a slain colleague. But there are zombies – hordes of them – and they move fast enough to make 28 Days Later look more like 28 Days Behind. The deadly enmity between the two sides must go if anyone is to survive the threat.

The on-screen violence is of the savagely sustained and blood-soaked kind, an onslaught which bludgeons the viewer visually and aurally.