Posts Tagged ‘Zombies’
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?”
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 13th, 2008
A first look at Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher’s The Horde is now available. Production was initially set to begin in September, but the short delay seems like it may have been well worth the wait. Executive producer Xavier Gens (Frontier(s)) first told Twitch films that the movie would be a cross between something like Die Hard and REC back in July and from the looks of the image, this may be a new zombie film worth watching.
“North of Paris. In order to avenge the murder of one of their own by a group of ruthless gangsters, four corrupt cops go on a rampage in a condemned building serving as the mobster’s hideout. Now trapped, the officers are about to be executed when the unimaginable occurs: hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures invade the building, savagely attacking everyone. Unexpected alliances are made when their lives are threatened by the unthinkable.”
Currently filming in Paris, the French zombie film stars Eriq Ebouaney, Jean-Pierre Martins, Aurélien Recoing, Claude Perron and Alain Fig as the four corrupt officers. Filming will take place over seven weeks according to CineEuropa. You can check out the teaser for Rivoallan, Dahan and Rocher’s short “prequel” to The Horde on Twitch.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on October 4th, 2008
That’s right. You’ve got it. According to Variety, writer-director George Romero has begun production on his new film, another zombie movie under the working title Island of the Dead. The film will mark four decades of Romero’s flesh-eating walking undeads since the original Night of the Living Dead (1968).
Currently shooting in Ontario, Canada, the film stars Canadian Kenneth Welch (Rise of the Silver Surfer), Alan Van Sprang, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, Stefano Colacitti, and Athena Karkanis in a “plot [that] involves inhabitants of an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure.”
Romero will executive produce the movie with several others. Voltage Pictures is already in for handling international distribution while Cinetic Media will focus on domestic sales. And if you’re currently lucky enough to be living in Canada, see The Expositor for details on a zombie casting call!
Posted by dominie in Films, News on August 27th, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter announced that Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers) is the first to be cast in the upcoming zombie comedy, Zombieland, from Columbia Pictures. Harrelson plays the character, Albuquerque, one of two survivors of the human race who find “friendship and redemption” as they battle through a world ravaged by the undead.
Newcomer Ruben Fleischer (Jimmy Kimmel Live) will direct the film whose screenplay was written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the pair behind The Joe Schmo Show and William Shatner’s reality show Invasion Iowa. Production of the film was first mentioned in December of last year and with Woody now on board, it will be exciting to see how the remaining cast fills.
Posted by dominie in Films, News on August 25th, 2008
According to Bloody Disgusting, principal photography for the Canadian psychological thriller, Pontypool, was underway in June this year. The film will premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival (Sept 4-13) and according to Variety, Maple Pictures, veteran genre distributor, just swiped the film for all domestic releases.
Scripted by Tony Burgess, Pontypool is based on his 1998 novel Pontypool Changes Everything about an epidemic that is spread through the English Language. The film has been receiving high remarks as one of the “most bizarre zombie movies” to progress thus far, and will also mark many first timers in the upcoming Toronto fest. Director Bruce McDonald (Highway 61, Roadkill), whose last feature was The Tracey Fragments (2007) starring Ellen Page, will establish his first mark in the horror arena. It is also the first Canadian full-length feature to be shot on the new Red One 4K HD camera and the first picture in this format to play at the festival. Stephen McHattie (Watchmen), Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak, and Rick Roberts (Man of the Year) will star.
Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on August 22nd, 2008
Director John Moore told MTV that “The world’s pretty serious right now, and there’s an ironic lightness in Virulents,” the Virgin Comics one-shot he will adapt next for the big screen. John Cox (Boot Camp) is working on the screenplay as announced by Variety.
“There’s a touch of macabre ridiculousness to it. I think we’ve seen a lot of attempts to make serious movies about serious things, and it strikes me that we might be a little more artful about how we make a point [these days].”
He said Mark Wahlberg, who stars in his next release, the video game come to life Max Payne, as an ideal candidate to star in the film. “I think he’s an actor of unlimited potential and I’d just love to go around with him again.”
The Virulents is your typical soldiers vs. vampire zombies tale. Virgin describes it this way: “A small platoon of American soldiers in search of their missing comrades comes across Indian commandoes looking for a group of terrorists suspected of hiding a most heinous weapon in the craggy breast of the Hindukush. It’s a night of revelation as the Americans discover the fate of their lost brothers, and the Indians discover the fate of their terrorists. But the terror is not in the form of flesh and blood, or bullets or gunpowder”
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 20th, 2008
George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead 2 is set to begin shooting September 15 in Toronto, which is a far cry from the series’ humble beginnings in Pittsburgh. No casting has been announced but word is out that the sixth installment will told in a similar first-person style, as the surviving characters from the last film find a ferry and head to an island for sanctuary. Unfortunately, the zombies are already there and that’s when the fun begins.
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 19th, 2008
Sony has scheduled October 28 for the DVD release of Zombie Strippers. The Jenna Jameson and Freddy-starring direct-to-DVD film had a brief screening in Los Angeles and the rest of us can enjoy the goings on with our candy corn.
The disc comes replete with:
• Commentary track with filmmaker Jay Lee and stars Robert Englund, Jenna Jameson, and Joey Medina
• Deleted and extended scenes
• The Champagne Room: Making Zombie Strippers featurette
• The Dressing Room: Zombie Makeup featurette
Posted by bob in Events, Films, News on August 9th, 2008
It had to happen. Porn and zombies. That’s about all you need to know about Dawna of the Dead. There will a one-night only showing of the XXX film next week, August 14,
at the New Beverly Cinema, 7165 West Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles. Tickets are $8.00. They producers suggest you arrive early to the stars of the movie, get free DAWNA swag and meet the DAWNA girls, the hottest bunch of zombie chics they could dig up. Meantime, there will also be a clip from Black Devil Dolls shown prior to the main feature. If you’re over 18, check out their website.
Posted by bob in Films, News on August 5th, 2008
Jake West and Daniel Schaffer have updated Fangoria on the progress in their next film, Doghouse. The film will begin a six week shoot, beginning this week. The film’s website is already live.
The Zombie tale involves a group of seven guys all going through a midlife crisis. Rather than take off for a cattle drive, they choose a guy’s weekend out in the country. They have chosen poorly as something in the air turns the nearby village’s women into cannibals.
The film will star Noel Clarke (Doctor Who), Danny Dyer (Severance), and Emily Booth (Evil Aliens).
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.
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.
