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Vesuri Productions Presents
WINTER OF THE DEAD
For many years I've been fighting against these ***, killing several every day.
When the war started I ended to my cottage, watching aside as the bombs kept falling down.
Nuclear bombs that dropped behind the eastern border had unexpected effects.
Strange radiation turned most of the survivors to bloodthirsty monsters.
Like some other survivors, I'm immune to the radiation and my life has been constant struggle ever since.
Nuclear winter doesn't make it any easier either.
The snow doesn't melt down even when it's summer and it's freezing cold all the time.
There's no place where I feel safe. There can be unwanted visitors at any time.
I have a generator which has saved my life many times.
I lost electricity years ago -
when an undead bit the power line.
It was something to see! I can still smell the burning flesh.
Once a week I check the channels, in case I should find a broadcast.
When the war began there were many reports about the nuclear winter.
The bombs raised dust to the atmosphere and the energy of the sun declined.
Instead of greenhouse effect the temperature decreased on the earth.
It has been long time since the last broadcast. I fear it was the last one.
I've installed an alarm system that wakes me up in case of an attack.
Luckily, there's one sure thing left in this confused world. Sauna
Water from the lake and wood to furnance. That's the way it works.
I never leave my gun. Not even when I'm having a sauna.
Eat this ***!
What a mess!
Nearby lives another surviver.
Risto, the neighbour.
We have some joined defence strategies but in the end you're on your own.
In the world of the future there's no place for friendship.
Goodbye Risto.
Damn! I almost shot you!
You should have seen your face!
"Goodbye Risto." I would have shot you right away!
- What if we are the only ones alive? It doesn't really help if we shoot each other...
- Come on Toni, don't be so grumpy all the time.
Come in, I've got some moonshine ready. - Great...
Want some? - No thanks. Maybe some other time...
You never drink my moonshine, You only stuff it in your generator.
That's waste of a good ***. - Alright, I'll taste.
Good. Grab your notebook. What are the statistics of the week?
I shot 32 last week - I think 10 of them were women.
I shot one in the leg and it ran to the forest. But I think it's dead. How about you?
40. There was 5 attacking at the same time when I was ice-fishing.
Bloody hell.
I been destroying small groups every day. I'm running out of bullets faster.
I've noticed that the amount of zombies is rising. I have to shoot much more than half a year ago.
And they're angier too. Before you could easily kill them. But now they attack right away.
And they move faster too. - It seems that our situation is getting worse.
Luckily there's still bullets left. But in the meanwhile... How about a pipeful?
Of course!
- Your moonshine is getting better.
This tastes almost drinkable.
Last one made me sick for a week.
- I've had plenty of time to practice.
- If they bite us, do we also change into those things?
- At least we are immune to the radiation that changed them.
But you can never be sure. I'm not going to take any chances.
- I thought zombies would have frozen and starved to death by now. But our situation is getting worse.
What if there's a huge herd of them attacking at the same time, what are we going to do then?
- You know, I fixed a bomb on the ice some time ago. I'm not going to get eaten by them.
If things turn bad, I'll go there and blow up everything and take as many as I can with me.
- Let's hope we don't have to do that.
And there's one again.
Let's make him dance!
- And still continues.
Maybe bullets won't stop this one. - ***!
That's one tough ***.
- Damn, they mess the whole place.
- Look, this one came all the way from Nurmes. He has walked over 100 km through snow and forests.
- These *** come from even further, because there's no more food for them.
- You stink all the way to Jyväskylä. No wonder they all come here.
I think I go to warm sauna before it gets dark.
See you later, and thanks for the ***. - No problemo!
- Today I found a woman in the snow.
First I thought her to be an exhausted zombie that would bite me if I went too close.
Luckily I checked, otherwise I would have shot a survivor.
She's in a weak condition and it's unlikely that she'll survive.
I don't want her to stay here for long time, she has to leave as soon as possible.
Stranger would only lower my changes to survive and could eventually lead to my own death.
- Oh, you're up already.
- Who are you? How did I end up in here?
- I found you lying in the snow when I came from neighbour's. First I thought you were a zombie but luckily I checked.
I'm Toni Taskinen, former cabdriver.
- How long have you been here? - Since the beginning.
- I'm Marika.
I lived in the town with couple of survivors.
We also fought the zombies for years.
But then they won.
Everyone else died and I ran into woods.
Freezing to death seemed better than to be eaten alive.
- I'm not interested in who you are and where you're from.
Only the strong survive here, and I don't think you'll last long.
And let's make one thing clear.
You can stay here as long as you recover. Just stay out of my way.
I don't want my life to get any more complicated. - Okey.
What's your problem? I almost hit myself.
You have something to say?
- I'm getting bored. Feels like I could do something.
- So you want work? This wood needs to be made -
generator has to be fixed and then water has to be carried to sauna.
- Okay!
You did really well today. Actually, I'm quite surprised.
- We survivors have to be hardworking, that's the only way to stay alive.
- True.
- Toni…
I guess I can stay here as long as...
I manage to gather all the necessary supplies for departure…So I can continue on my own.
- That seems the best way. But here we do as I say.
I've lived on my own just fine and I don't need company.
- Well… I try not to get you killed.
He doesn't seem to be home.
- He's inside. Risto is just so drunk that it takes a while. - Great…
- Howdy ho!
- Here's Marika, she ran away from the town when zombies attacked and killed everybody else.
- Hi!
- Marika lives at my place till she gets all necessary things gathered so she can make on her own.
Well, Risto, you have seen women earlier, right?
- Yeah, but it's been quite a while. Well, do come in.
Hey… Toni… Don't you also have resupply time already?
- Yes, I'm short of gasoline and coffee. I'll have to make a trip to the village this week.
At least a sled full of stuff has to be brought. - What village?
- It's the nearby village of Sonkajärvi. We go there every now and then to resupply.
Those trips are… quite dangerous, because…
- Can I come with you?
- No. I'm better off alone.
- But… I could get my stuff and could leave earlier.
- It's not going to be a piece of cake.
If something goes wrong, I'm not there to save you. You'll have to take care of yourself.
- I'll make it.
- God damn, let's party!
- Now with this EU and WU, Finnish farmers can't make it. And the price of milk is so low…
- That's right… - I'll put the skies on.
- Toni… So you'll bring me the mags from the village?
- I think that you already have all the *** magazines of Sonkajärvi. - But… I've already read them all…
- Well, I'll bring if there's any left. But I have to go now. Try to take care of yourself.
- Bye bye!
Let's keep on going so we'll reach edge of the city before the dark. - Okay.
This is a bit quieter area, but there should be more zombies near the main street.
I think we'll have to kill at least a couple of them.
- How the power is still on here?
- Risto and I lost power when one zombie blew the main fuse a while ago.
I thought this village would also turn dark when the war began.
But there must be someone still keeping the power grid of Ylä-Savo on.
- Let's hope the one stays alive at least during this trip. It's so *** cold!
- Let's go.
Wait here, I'll have to take a leak.
- Okay.
Bloody hell!
I could have taken care of this on my own. - So it seemed.
Grap a basket and gather everything that isn't spoiled.
Risto asked for chilli tuna fish, maybe he's going to have an Mexican evening.
- Risto seems to enjoy this all. Have you known him long?
- Yes, I knew him before the war.
We were summer cottage neighbours and I drove him couple of times from bar to home with my cab.
- It seemed that he used to be a farmer.
- The farm was his life. However he would've had to give it up, even if the war had never started.
- I used to be a waiter in Bar Doris in Nilsiä.
I always thought I'd leave the place as soon as I could, but in the end I just got stuck there.
- Yes, but now you've made it out of Nilsiä.
To Sonkajärvi.
- Where were you when all this started?
- In Iisalmi, that's where I lived.
- You thought that in Finland you'd be safe from to the war.
But then you saw that people started to change because of the radiation.
The worst thing of all was to see your own family like that... Like animals..
- I know, I had a wife and a son.
- We all had someone.
- Hey! What the hell you're doing in my village?
- This is village of the dead. What are you doing here?
- This is my village. You're stealing my things and my food. Take it all back and get to hell out from here.
- Put the gun down. We're not enemies.
- Take a step and I'll put hole in your skull!
- Nobody wants to hurt you. - *** it!
- Don't worry, I'll take you home.
- This was a long time ago.
- You don't have fever any more.
- How did you survive the riots and the disorder when the war begun?
- I was at the night shift in Doris when I saw the first one. I thought it was some drunken lunatic.
The whole bar was in chaos, thank God I got out of there.
I don't remember much from the first days, except I killed a lot.
How did you made it here in the wilds?
- My wife and son died to the radiation at the very beginning.
I took all the things I needed and left the town before the worst riots started.
I was planning to follow the end of the world outside and go along.
But somehow I survived from day to day.
THE WAR WON'T END
- I'll check the channels.
- Don't bother, there's nothing on there anyway.
- Good day. - Hello, hello.
- Hi. Toni has something for you. - Yeah, excellent.
- So, it seems that it was a though journey. How's the leg?
- It's better. I can walk but wouldn't go running. - Well, just tell me what happened there on your trip?
- There was some paranoid survivor at the village. But he had kept the electricity on all the time.
- Weird that we haven't seen him before. Well, do you have something for me?
- There you go. - Yeah, looking good...
- Hey, there's something showing! - The first broadcast in years!
- Damned, I wonder if the situation is over.
- They ask if there's anybody alive from Kiuruvesi. Send a message if there is and all other survivors send messages.
Together we have better chance to get trough this alive.
This broadcast has just started, I just broke in to this broadcast center.
- This is some kind of survivor chat.
- I've been making some research during last months and the situation got so bad that I had to come here to tell my conclusions.
Before it's too late, before I'll die.
As a former researcher I have made exact observations about the zombies from the beginning of this situation.
I've come to certain conclusions. You all have noticed they have become more hostile and move in larger herds.
- Yes, we've noticed.
- This is because the zombies haven't had enough food, people, in a long time.
- That man has a point!
- Many zombies haven't eaten since the situation began, everybody remembers what it was like then.
I have calculated and studied my test animals.
I've noticed that most of these hungry and malnourished zombies will die of hunger in next couple of weeks.
But they are now really hungry and hostile, they move in large packs.
So all survivors, prepare yourself for immediate attacks.
They are coming your way. And try to stay alive. In few weeks all this will be over.
So try to survive. They're coming.
- They're coming in through the window! - We need to get out of here!
- Where? - Where ever, just out of here!
- God damn you Risto!
- Take me to the bomb, it's our only hope. - We're not going to make it.
- Yes we will, when we blow up the bomb. I'll take care of it, you kill the rest!
- I wonder if this is still working. - Yes, it will. I'll stay here and blow it up.
- What? Didn't you put some kind detonator or timer on this?
- I'm just a farmer, not electrician. I don't know how to do that. Matches are enough.
Besides, I've always wanted to give something back to those ***.
- This is it?
- Thank you.
- Ok, just go already.
- Hey, Toni!
- Are you all right? - Yes.
- They all died.
- Risto saved us.
- Thank God this is over.
- How do we go on from here?