# The Blackout (2019)

> A Russian military unit investigates a silent, corpse-filled world beyond the last electrically powered enclave while an unknown alien threat closes in.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/401895

## Facts

- Runtime: 127 min
- Genres: Thriller, Science Fiction, Action
- Director: Egor Baranov
- Cast: Lukerya Ilyashenko, Pyotr Fyodorov, Svetlana Ivanova, Aleksey Chadov, Kseniya Kutepova, Konstantin Lavronenko, Philipp Avdeev, Artyom Markaryan
- TMDB rating: 6.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8664988/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: slow
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: graphic
- Mood: bleak, tense, oppressive, late night science fiction, action movie marathon

## Movies like The Blackout

- [The Inhabited Island (2009)](https://ember.film/movie/10177)
- [How I Ended This Summer (2010)](https://ember.film/movie/24144)
- [Hell (2011)](https://ember.film/movie/51297)
- [Invasion (2020)](https://ember.film/movie/355800)
- [Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)](https://ember.film/movie/90993)
- [War Machine (2026)](https://ember.film/movie/5396459)
- [Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz (2013)](https://ember.film/movie/99846)
- [Attraction (2017)](https://ember.film/movie/267432)
- [Chernobyl: Abyss (2021)](https://ember.film/movie/412905)
- [Warriors of Future (2022)](https://ember.film/movie/248609)

---

Site overview: https://ember.film/llms.txt