“Before The Fire” (** out of four) was a moody but mild post-apocalyptic thriller about a television actress (Jenna Lyng Adams) who is thrust in the midst of a global pandemic and escapes back to her rural hometown but finds that civilization has collapsed and she has to hide from the virus and also a redneck (Jackson Davis) who is on the lookout for her. Strong work by Adams and Drew Bienemann’s bleak cinematography help this stay on track but not enough to make it standout from the rest of the pack (“28 Days Later”, “The Road”, many others) of other- and better- movies about the future and postapocalyptic society. Adams also wrote the screenplay.