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More good news for zombie fans–of which, if you’ve been reading this blog, you know I’m one. From across the Atlantic comes word of a Spanish film called [Rec], which some are calling “a cross between Dawn of the Dead and The Blair Witch Project”.

Filmed in documentary style using digital video, the movie unfolds from the point of view of a news crew tagging along with a firefighter company that responds to a bizarre disturbance at an apartment building. The next thing they know, they’re locked inside under quarantine with the living dead.

Written and directed by Jaume Balagueró, the film is being hailed for its unrelenting sense of realism. Reportedly (and I know these anecdotes are often drummed up for publicity), when it first screened last August at the Venice Film Festival, half the unsuspecting audience cleared out in terror within the first 15 minutes.

[Rec] officially opened in Spain last month, and is scheduled to open in France in February and the UK in March. No word yet on whether there will be a full U.S. release. Ain’t It Cool News posted this rather intriguing trailer earlier today:

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In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest rural communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate the corpse until it was no longer able to support itself. Soon, the planet was infested with a new threat - the undead.

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AKA: Sexy Nights of the Living Dead

Gather around the boob tube, it’s a reunion of the cast from Porno Holocaust and this time they invited the stunning Laura Gemser! OK, technically Porno came out after Erotic, but you get my drift. D’Amato has brought together the gang for, well, basically the same movie as last time. Why? Who the hell knows, but God knows I will watch it if Joe makes it.

John (porn actor, Mark Shannon), is an archaeologist/businessman who buys a cursed island inhabited by the walking dead to develop it for tourists. So he employs boat Captain Larry (D’Amato staple, George Eastman) to take him and his um, date (read: ho-bag he met at his hotel) to the island. But first he gets a couple other local whores and they have some of the sexy time. If I’m not mistaken, it’s the only “hardcore” scene in the movie. Unless, of course, you count a stripper squatting on a champagne bottle and opening it with her lady curtains. But I digress…

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With the seemingly endless supply of zombie movies on the market, Oceola Township’s Jason “J.” Scott is hoping to take the genre in a new direction.

Scott is the filmmaker behind “Heaven’s Gate,” an Internet miniseries that has been shooting around Livingston County and will likely debut near the start of the new year.

“I like to look at it as the sequel to every zombie movie ever made,” Scott, 33, said. “Most (zombie) movies take place in the city; they show all the destruction - this is the country’s point of view.”

The premise is that survivors have taken refuge at a former cult compound, which was taken over by the government and turned into a storage facility for disaster relief.

Scott said it’s focused on the people who didn’t have to deal with the initial blast.

“They knew it was coming and they prepared for it while everything is slowly creeping their way,” Scott said.

Actors have been busy at work at several Livingston County sites, including the Fowlerville Fairgrounds, Hell Survivors paintball range, underneath Mr. B’s Rustic Tavern in Howell and downtown Howell itself.

Some shooting days have gone as long as 12 hours, and during one recent shoot, 35 people from the community came out to show off their zombie skills.

“It’s a pretty rough set,” said co-producer Russ Fox. “We’re the toughest set in Michigan to work, but, when it’s all done, everybody seems to be pretty happy.”

Scott says the biggest challenge has been trying to find local talent and shooting locations for no cost, but that it has all worked out. It helps that Fox is with Effenar Productions, which arranges entertainment for the Fowlerville Family Fair.

The idea for the miniseries was actually first pitched about a year ago, when Scott competed in a contest for amateur filmmakers.

The winner’s pitch would be turned into a TV show. Scott finished second out of 80 competitors.

“But, unfortunately, second place didn’t win anything; only first place did,” Scott said.

Scott has a brief background in shooting film - he has taped matches for friends who are involved with mixed martial arts; however, his day job is as a commercial carpenter.

He has his own production company, Biorhythm North Production Group, and he plans on shooting a movie next year called “The Brawler,” which he described as a cross between Johnny Cash’s classic track “A Boy Named Sue” and the Clint Eastwood flick “Every Which Way But Loose.”

But the current focus is on wrapping up the miniseries. If the first few episodes do well, Scott said he might scrap the fifth episode, which is meant to provide closure to the series, and keep cranking out more installments.

“It goes beyond being a zombie flick,” Scott said. “There’s actually a lot of conflict between characters. It’s almost how two groups survive side-by-side.”

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PLAGA ZOMBIE (Zombie Plague) is the first movie of the living dead of the Argentine cinema history and it was produced by a group of 17-year-old artists with an old video camera. The budget was really low and it was charge of the production company FARSA. As time goes by and little by little ZOMBIE PLAGUE has turned into a cult classic.
Here is the trailer of PLAGA ZOMBIE:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment unleashes the successful sci-fi horror action film Resident Evil: Extinction on January 1st.

The third installment of the $300 million box office videogame-based series follows genetically-enhanced warrior Alice (Milla Jovovich, Resident Evil) and her fellow survivors – played by Ali Larter (Legally Blonde, TV’s “Heroes”), R&B sensation Ashanti (John Tucker Must Die), Mike Epps (Roll Bounce) and Oded Fehr (The Mummy, Resident Evil: Apocalypse) – in a last attempt to save Earth from a fatal virus.

The high-paced battle against zombies, and the corrupt Umbrella Corporation, forces the team to use their wits and brawn to uncover the truth and defeat the deadly enemy before mankind becomes extinct. The Resident Evil: Extinction DVD features a collectible bronze-colored foil package and will be available for a suggested retail price of $28.95 (DVD), $38.96 (Blu-ray DiscTM), and $24.94 (PSP).

Additionally, Resident Evil and Resident Evil: Extinction will all be available for the first time on Blu-ray Disc as part of a new high definition trilogy box set containing all three films in the franchise. The Blu-ray High-Def three-pack suggested retail price is $89.85 and also features collectible foil packaging.

Synopsis:

Hiding in the Nevada desert, Alice (Jovovich), Carlos Oliver (Fehr) and L.J. (Epps) join forces with new survivors of the Raccoon City disaster – Nurse Betty (Ashanti), K-Mart (Spencer Locke) and Claire Redfield (Larter) – to create a formidable force ready to defeat flesh-hungry zombies and save Earth before time runs out. Trekking though the desert and ruins of Las Vegas, the group must elude the sinister minds of the Umbrella Corporation, who are tracking their every move from the corporation’s sleek research facilities below the very ground Alice and her team are traversing.

With hordes of zombies, killer crows and gruesomely-mutated creatures in their path, the survivors are up against menacing odds. And Alice having been subjected to a biogenic experimentation has become genetically altered with super-human strengths, now must employ these skills as never before to ensure that the last of the human race survives.


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Wait a minute, ZOMBIES? Yeah that’s right player, ZOMBIES. You get the point, another zombedy and this looks right sweet. Tie me up and call me Shirley cause I can still keep watching and watching and watching these things.. Don’t call me Shirley. This baby is slated for release in DVD form on June 15th, 2008.

“The most important night of every senior’s life is cut abruptly at the hands of a high-radiated satellite that unexpectedly crash the party and turns everyone to flesh-eating zombies. It’s up to the popular chick, Cassia; the Drama-Queen, Donna; the Jock, Brett; the weirdo, Ernie; and the geeks, Brewster, Herman and Chubsy to put their social differences aside and join forces to survive their Prom night from the entire senior class of zombies. It’s kill or be killed. Will they survive the night…or will they be the main course. This prom night, a pimple is the least of their worries.”

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Granddaddy of gore George A. Romero attended a very special screening of Diary of the Dead in London over the weekend, and revealed that — contrary to reports in the trades — he has no plans to shoot a sequel… yet.

“I’m not sure where that came from,” Romero said when IGN put the question to him. “I wouldn’t mind continuing the discussion, but nothing is decided yet. Euphoria seems to have set in even though the film has only screened about six times.

“The only way I can see it being worthwhile is if we use the same characters, which would be the first time I have done that. I don’t have an idea yet, but if the idea and the money can meet somewhere in the middle, it’s possible.”

Romero was speaking at the Film4 FrightFest All-Nighter at the ICA, where his film screened alongside the similarly horrific Planet Terror, Frontier(s), Inside and the exploitation classic Savage Streets.

But the highlight of the night was undoubtedly Romero sticking around to discuss his work. Of Diary, he said his decision to shoot a low-budget zombie film using digital cameras was a direct response to the failure of his previous Dead flick.

“After what happened with Land of the Dead I wanted to get away from Hollywood and do something small and independent,” he explained. “The idea came about from the media explosion that’s happening at the moment — we’re all reporters now so that idea was buzzing around in my head.”

He was also asked if he would do the same as his Diary characters and stay filming whilst a Zombie holocaust raged around him. Romero quipped that he would, but would try and cut a movie deal first.

He also advised the audience to listen closely next time they watch the film as the voices of Stephen King, Guillermo del Toro, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Savini and Wes Craven can all be heard on the soundtrack. He also surprised everyone and admitted that his dream project would be a, bizarrely, a Tarzan movie.

Before leaving, he also revealed his favourite characters from all five zombie films. Living, he went for the sheriff from Night of the Living Dead, if only because he gets to utter the immortal, “They’re dead — they’re all messed up.” And of those not alive, Romero rather predictably plumped for Bub from Day of the Dead, a hugely popular choice that was met by whoops and cheers from the audience.



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THE SKINNY: Y’know, as much as I love MARVEL ZOMBIES, I am really starting to wonder if it’s possible that we’ve had a few too many zombie movies in the last several years. If it’s not zombies, it’s a vampirish take on zombies. When will the madness end?

Not any time soon, if THE ZOMBIE DIARIES, a new British movie that’s been long awaited on these shores, is at all successful. It already has an American distributor – no less than the Weinstein Company, which acquired it this week at the American Film Market – and it’ll be playing at the HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis this month, as well. Judging from the plot synopsis – a virus infects the population, reanimating corpses when they die – it could be more of the same old, same old, but there’s a lot of buzz about it. Then again, there’s a lot of buzz about anything reanimated nowadays, really – just look at all the remakes being planned.


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LOCATION: Toronto, where even the zombies say “aboot”

THE SKINNY: George A. Romero obviously still knows a thing or two about making the dead get up and walk for your pleasure and entertainment. His fifth zombie flick, DIARY OF THE DEAD, about a group of teens trying to make a horror movie when the dead suddenly start coming to life, premiered recently at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was so well received that it was acquired by the Weinsteins for North American distribution. Translation: you’ll be seeing it soon, too.

But the big news is what may happen next. Romero revealed in an interview with Bloody-Digusting.com that, if DIARY is a success (and there’s no reason it wouldn’t be, according to initial reviews), the Weinsteins are bound to want him to write and direct another one. Convenient, then, that DIARY ends on the equivalent of a cliffhanger, since Romero says a sixth movie would pick up where this one leaves off. In that sense, it would more closely mirror the 28 DAYS LATER franchise, in which each movie carries on from the last and which uses the same cinema verité style as DIARY and certain as-yet unnamed movies from J.J. Abrams do.

Hmm. Anyone else seeing a trend developing in horror movies, that the ones that seem to scare us the most are the ones that make us feel most like we’re there? And there’s nothing scarier than feeling like you’re trapped somewhere with an undead zombie, is there? Except, perhaps, being trapped in an airport bathroom with an undead Republican.

Source: http://www.ifmagazine.com/