"The Divide" (11): a fully satisfying low-budget pretend prequel to the "Fallout" game series.

A cataclysmic bomb of unknown origins drops on New York. Luckily for a handful of panicked tenants who hopelessly try to flee their building, they run into their super, Michael Biehn, who turns out to be a paranoid doomsday-prepper who has turned the building's basement into a fully-stocked fallout shelter. He just wasn't expecting any company.

So eight neighbors all of a sudden find themselves trapped in their building's basement. They've survived the attack, but they know they'll eventually run out of supplies. But maybe that's not the biggest issue.

A group of armed Asian soldiers in sci-fi hazmat suits barge into the shelter one day, kidnap the only child, and attempt to kill off the rest of the survivors. Though the group manages to make it out alive, this event not only turns some of them into killers, but it also exposes them to the deadly radiation.

Left for dead after the soldiers retreat and seal them off from the outside world for good, and with no information or ways to contact anyone, the remaining survivors slowly begin turning on each other as they fall sick and descend into madness and despair. Alphas emerge, tensions rise, the women become targets, and...

I'm assuming most of you haven't seen this so I won't go ahead and spoil too much of it. Though Xavier Gens' The Divide is not a great movie in the traditional sense, its oppressive atmosphere and portrayal of a rapidly declining society is gleefully hard to watch for horror fans who might be into that sort of thing. Biehn is great, as always, but it's Milo Ventimiglia and Michael Eklund who steal the show as they grow into feral psychopaths. This movie may actually just have you believing that they are great actors by the end of its runtime.

So if you love horror movies and Fallout, I strongly recommend you check this one out. Maybe you won't get where I'm coming from at first, but you definitely will by the time that bleak yet exciting -- in a what if way -- ending rolls around. It's too bad there'll probably never be a sequel, because I'm definitely down for more.