AFM 2008: Zombie Tidbits
Posted by dominie in Films, News on November 10th, 2008
Brazillian horror Mud Zombie, the feature debut for director Rodrigo Aragao has found itself among one of One Eyed Films slates for the coming year according to the Screen Daily.
“One day, in a fishermen and hunters’s community, as poor and as timeless it can be, nature decides to show it’s macabre side. From the mangrove swamp, where they get the wretched sustenance, Cannibal zombies emerge. Nobody knows the cause of this “contamination”. The important thing is to run and survive, to run again. With every bite, parents, friends and brothers, become awful creatures. In front of a horror that doesn’t move back, not even with the daylight, that doesn’t exempt fish or crustaceans, an obstinate and fearful survivor is revealed, skillful with the axe and terrible when the moment comes to declare to the brunet who makes his heart beat.”
Another newcomer horror. From the studio Matthias Hoene director of Beyond the Rave will direct his first feature length film, Cockneys vs Zombies, a zombie comedy about two small time crooks fighting for survival when a zombie outbreak occurs in London. Tamer Hassan (Wrong Turn 3) has signed on to star.
“What I love about the CvsZ concept is that it takes two established British genres: the gangster film and the horror film and blends them together into something that is more of an action/gangster film than a straight zombie film,” Hoene says. “In the vein of Evil Dead II and Braindead, it’ll be grittier and scarier than Shaun Of The Dead and more colorful and fun than 28 Weeks Later. It’s Football Factory with zombies. The film is scary, darkly comic, witty and anarchic.”
During the weekend at AFM, Bloody Disgusting learned that director Danny Leiner (Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle) is bringing The Corporate Zombie Killers, a horror comedy written by James Biederman and John Plummer, to the screen. “One in a lifetime, a script comes along which is beautiful, devastating and life-changing,” Leiner told Screen Daily. “TCZK is none of those, but it is an amazingly hilarious, satirical and action-packed ride in the undying and often overlooked world of corporate zombies.”
Talk of George A. Romero’s new zombie movie floated throughout the halls at AFM. The teaser poster is shown and plot is available for the currently is untitled film, … of the Dead (courtesy of Dread Central).
“On a small island off the cost of North America the Dead Rise ot menace the living. The islanders cant bring themselves to eterminate the loir loves ones despite the growing danger fro those they once held dear. A rebel among them hunts down all the zombies he can find only to be banished from the island for assassinating his neighbors and friends.
On the mainland, bent on revenge, he encounters a small band of Survivors in search of an oasis on which to build a new life. Barely surviving an attack from a mass of ravenous flesh eaters they commandeer a zombie infested ferry and sail to the island. There to their horor they discover that the locals have chained the dead inside their homes pretending to live ‘normal lives’ with bloody consequences.
What ensues is a desperate struggle for survival and the answer to question never posed in Romeros dead films.. can the living ever live in peace with the dead?”
