The long and winding road leads… well, I don’t know where. In The Road, based on Cormac McCarthy’s recent short novel, it seemingly leads to hell.

McCarthy’s writing is also the basis for the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men; his latest work is more like “No Old Men in the Country,” with most of the weak and infirm having perished after an undefined apocalypse. There’s a shared bleakness in both stories, a belief that evil exists in the world, and it is on the verge of invading your life.