In “The Battery,” Ben and Mickey, former baseball players, navigate a zombie-infested Connecticut. Ben is a hardened survivor avoiding indoor stays, while Mickey is less adaptable, obsessed with joining a survivor group called the Orchard after hearing their radio transmissions.

Their tensions climax when Ben forces Mickey to kill a zombie. After a hostile encounter with other survivors leaves them trapped in a car, Mickey gets bitten. Ben kills him and vows revenge on the Orchard. The film is a tense look at friendship and survival in an apocalyptic world.