'The Divide' Trailer: 'Frontier(s)' Director Xavier Gens Goes Post-Apocalyptic

For his third film, French genre director Xavier Gens has locked a bunch of New Yorkers in the basement of a building as they wait out the end of the world. But it turns out these people aren't the only survivors, and interactions with people who didn't make it to shelter set off a chain of events that probably won't end well.

The film is The Divide, and those who've seen Gens' first film, Frontier(s), will immediately recognize some common energy and tension. Anchor Bay has released the first full trailer for the film. It builds on the teaser we saw months ago, beginning with more or less the same setup before moving into a montage of action that suggests things get pretty crazy as this group awaits rescue. Check it out below.

It's good to see Michael Biehn looking like a badass once more. That's enough to make me want to see the film, even though I haven't found much to defend in either of Gens' previous films, Frontier(s) and Hitman.

Yahoo has the HD trailer and this little synopsis:

In a post-apocalyptic New York, a group of survivors caught in a bomb shelter begin to turn on each other as they wait for rescue.

Here's a longer synopsis that could help piece together some of what you see in the trailer, should you be interested in such a thing:

When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter designed by their paranoid superintendent Mickey. With just three connecting rooms it's barely big enough, but with stockpiles of food and water, the group are at least safe from the horrors outside, and they settle in and attempt to fathom the catastrophe that has ended the lives of so many of their loved ones.

But suddenly men in HAZMAT suits storm their shelter and open fire. The strangers join forces in a desperate bid to take on this enemy, with no one understanding what these HAZMATS are looking for and what drives them to be so merciless. With fatalities on both sides and the remaining HAZMATS temporarily pushed back and locked out, the worst is yet to come for the group. Cabin fever sets in as the perception of the shelter shifts from safe-haven to claustrophobic rat-trap.