Made in Manitoba, French director Xavier Gens's claustrophobic horror flick is set in a New York basement where a couple of women, a young girl and an ill-assorted group of dislikable men are trapped following a large-scale nuclear assault. The building's crazy janitor, a xenophobic survivalist (Michael Biehn, a familiar face from hard-nosed films by James Cameron, Michael Bay and Quentin Tarantino), seems prepared for such an event. But along with the others he rapidly disintegrates both morally and physically. Like Gens's features, Hitman and Frontier(s), this is a nasty, efficient film that makes the imminent end of life on Earth seem like the judgment of a wise God.