In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

I can't believe I'm only just discovering this movie in 2017! "Sole Survivor" tells of a woman who is the only person to survive a plane crash, but although she is physically healthy she starts to be haunted by mysterious apparitions who appear randomly, silently staring at her. Unnerved, she searches for an explanation, while things gradually get worse.If you've seen "Final Destination" and "It Follows", you are going to feel like this is all very familiar, but let's remind ourselves that "Sole Survivor" was made in 1983! Beating both of those movies by decades, it's just as chilling and creepy. as either of them. It's only real precursor is the seminal "Carnival of Souls", which is also a great and unnerving story of a haunted accident survivor. The acting in "Sole Survivor" is great all round, and although I thought at first this was a made-for-TV production, the inclusion of some gore and topless nudity made it clear that it was not. It's a real shame that it did not make a greater impact when it was first released. The first hour is superb, it only sags a little in the final few minutes as the ending doesn't really work. But even so, I think it's really good.

SS is a daft semi-amateurish horror film from which the makers of the "Final Destination" serial might have "borrowed" the basic premise. Except that FD movies make sense, while this one does not. SS would make sense (at least its premise) if Denise were the only person to be targeted by the freshly undead. But she isn't. In fact, zombies don't even try to kill her during the first few days. Instead, they just stare at her from the distance like a bunch of retards, while cliché horror music "composed" by music amateurs doodles in the background. If only these scenes looked menacing; they don't. And when these pasty-faced zombies finally get down to the business of murder (as we knew they would) they kill Denise's pal Karla first. They got the wrong woman!Or did they? They then slay a taxi-driver and then Denise's new boyfriend as well. Denise snuffs it only a little later. Apparently, these zombies FORGOT whom they were sent out to hunt down, and end up attacking ANYBODY they can get their hands on, not just the "sole survivor" Denise – who is the only victim it would make sense that they pursue. Dumber yet, these zombies WAIT a few days before they start their killing spree. (The notion that zombies may have poor memory – perhaps even extremely advanced Alzheimer's – makes sense, in a way, considering their low IQs, so perhaps I'm being a little harsh.)Absolutely nothing makes sense in the 2nd half. Are we to deduce that the plane crash started off a zombie apocalypse? There was no mysterious gas involved, nor did the airplane crash into a nuclear reactor or anything like that; it was just a bloody plane crash, one of many. So what made THIS plane crash so special that it started off what seems like the early stages of a "Dawn of the Dead"-type scenario? How the hell does a movie with an obvious ghosts-gotta-collect-her-sole-coz-she-shouldn't-be-alive shtick become a random-killing zombie-dawn flick? (BTW, for all of you who think the premise was original, consider the fact that it is stolen from "The Twilight Zone" episode "The Hitchhiker" AND the movie "Carnival of Souls".) Whoever wrote this nonsense was just as confused as the guy who cast Anita Skinner to play the lead: no boobs, no womanly hips, and a fairly mediocre face. In fact, during the opening bus scene, from the distance I thought she was a man. No joke.Speaking of which, the opening scene serves as a SPOILER. I've never understood movies that start off with one of its last scenes. I'm against it because if I wanted to watch a trailer I would have done so before pressing "play" for this piece of crap. I don't want to know anything in advance. I mean, horror flicks of this kind are dull enough as it is, without having the handful of its flimsy plot-twists given away early on. Duh.There is a particularly baffling segment around the mid-section when Denise's neighbor is playing strip-poker: one dweeb and three women, to be exact. Is this even possible? How does a DWEEB convince three young women to play strip poker? I mean, what is in it for THEM? To see him naked? But wait; things get even dumber pretty soon. Her neighbor Karla gets drowned – for zero reason – by one of the zombies that have been stalking Survivor Girl Denise for days. So why would they kill her friend instead of her? But I repeat myself.Back to the strip-poker: the woman with the small boobs gets naked – instead of Karla who seems to be very well endowed. The director must be a boy-lover because all 4 boobs that he shows in SS are small.

~Spoiler~Sole Survivor is one of those 80's films whose box art was a staple of Mom & Pop video stores of days gone by. I've only recently gotten to see this little gem...and I can't believe Final Destination got away with it. It's a complete plagiarism of this film. In Sole Survivor a woman lives through a plane crash while all others die. She is later haunted by strange happenings and Death it seems is trying to rectify his mistake by putting her in harm's way and sending his agents after her. Sound familiar? It's a really good yarn that is quite unlike anything else from that era. There are no stars to speak of and it's very low-budget, but I strongly recommend seeing this should you ever get the chance. It's just different enough to be deemed a solid chiller.

This film was very nicely done despite it's budget. The director thoroughly developed each scene so that you knew exactly what was going on.I use to watch this film along side of the classic "Carnival Of Souls" with Candice Hillagoss. The difference between the two was that in carnival the lead character was half dead, but in this film the dead were hell bent making the lead character very dead.Cudos to Leon in his prelude role to Madonna's "Like A Prayer" video. You really don't know who he is until he opens his mouth. This is where you hear him sounding like his "5 Heartbeats" character JT.This is a must see for all true horror fans, and those who still enjoy the late Saturday night "fright night" features.8 out of 10 hands down.