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FANGORIA will host a free screening of the satirical dark comedy/mockumentary AMERICAN ZOMBIE at New York City’s Two Boots Pioneer Theater (155 East 3rd Street and Avenue A) on Saturday, July 5 at 11 p.m. The festival favorite follows writer/director Grace Lee and fellow non-fiction filmmaker John Solomon (playing themselves) as they set out to capture the struggles of Revenants, i.e. high-functioning zombies, living and working in Los Angeles. As Grace strives to get to know the zombies “on their own terms,” John is eager to uncover their darker side and rallies to get the crew permission to shoot at a three-day, zombies-only retreat called Live Dead where the shoot takes an unexpected—and dangerous—turn.
The Fango/Pioneer AMERICAN ZOMBIE screening will be a free show; to obtain tickets, send an e-mail to fangoscreening@starloggroup.com. You must list “AMERICAN ZOMBIE” as your subject line. Offer is good for you and one guest. Plus tell us your full name and whether you want to be added to the FANGORIA newsletter list so we can tell you about future Fango screenings and events. Names will be checked at the door. Offer is first come, first served, and we will confirm your RSVP. The screening is sponsored by Cinema Libre Studio.
AMERICAN ZOMBIE has been called ”Highly original and funny” by Salon.com, while SLUG (Salt Lake Underground) magazine described it as “Fresh, entertaining and creatively awesome.” The San Francisco Chronicle summed up AMERICAN ZOMBIE best as “A winner all the way”; see our article on the film in Fango #272. Mark your calendar for Fango’s free showing of AMERICAN ZOMBIE on July 5, and check out the movie’s trailer and official website here.
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When it comes to zombie movies, opinions are pretty binary; there’s no middle ground. You either love them or revel in all of their bloody, undead gruesome goodness, or you can’t stomach them. Or, maybe you can stomach them but hate them anyway. Either way, there’s no arguing this point: without Night of the Living Dead they wouldn’t exist at all.
Now out in a 40th anniversary special edition, George A. Romero’s low-budget black-and-white fright fest is the granddaddy of the ghoul genre. And even after all the Day of the Deads, Dawn of the Deads, and Shaun of the Deads, it still holds up as being as terrifying as it is influential. There’s no need to go too deeply into the plot because that’s really not the point here. Essentially, the dead have come back to life and they are roaming the earth looking for brains to snack on. Meanwhile, a group of strangers hole up in a house in the middle of nowhere, board up the windows, lock the doors, and pray. Some of them fight back too.
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The genre cultivated by George A Romero has always dwelt on highbrow territory, but Jenna Jameson as a Nietzsche-reading undead table dancer?
How could you resist a movie set in the nightmare America of George W Bush’s fourth term that shows porn superstar Jenna Jameson reading and claims to be a zombie-and-stripper packed update of Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 play about alienation, conformity and fascism, Rhinocéros?
Zombie Strippers starts off as a fairly straightforward cross between Idiocracy, Fahrenheit 9-11 and Day of the Dead. The US is at war with every other Muslim nation on the planet plus France and Alaska. So the thinly-stretched military decide to test a troop-reanimation drug on folks so poor they have to sell their bodies to science - also known as “the homeless, illegal immigrants and the American middle class”.
Predictably enough it all goes wrong and suddenly it’s raining zombies. The US army steams in, kicks undead ass and declares “mission accomplished”. But - just as sorta happened in Iraq - the infection spreads to Jenna Jameson, who becomes a massively popular “super zombie stripper”, forcing - by her very undead existence - all the other strippers to become zombies or be left behind in the desirability stakes. Which now means you’re watching a brutally unsubtle but nonetheless cleverly layered exposed-breast-fest of a satire of the objectification of women where shotgunned zombie skulls explode with a frequency matched only by the gleefully ponderous dropping of highbrow literary references (the movie’s set in the town of Sartre, the strippers have names like Lillith and Gaia, there’s a military officer called Major Camus and a scientist called Ian Essko).
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Although several retailers were grossed out by the zombie-puking-eyeballs design of Day of the Dead, consumers widely embraced First Look Studios’ packaging.
Anticipating controversy, First Look offered stores a choice of either the shock option or a tamer packaging alternative for the April 8 straight-to-DVD release.
But on shelves, the vomiting zombie look, enhanced with 3D lenticular graphics, far outsold its safer counterpart, featuring flat art of floating zombie heads. On Day of the Dead’s street date, First Look sold through 40% of its initial shipment of the puking zombie copies and just 10% of the tamer DVDs.
“There was a lot of negativity, where people looked at the three-dimensional vomiting zombie and asked, ‘What, are you crazy?’” said Dean Wilson, First Look chief operating officer. “But the fact is that the horror market is saturated, and we needed to make a change. This sell-off was exciting for me, because we stood our ground and went with something outrageous.”
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Many years ago, when I was a wilder, full-of-vim-and-vigor young man and unrefined writer, I was given the job of reviewing a movie (which shall remain nameless) about a homicidal, monstrous turd. (I hope that description doesn’t give too much away.) After looking at the film’s title and reading up on its plot, I immediately knew that I had to gather up some friends, pick up some beer and spend a Friday night watching a serial-killing shit literally kick the crap out of people. Sorry for all the fecal references, but I’m penning this late at night and am rather pooped.
Anyway, the filmmakers sent me an angry e-mail response to the resulting negative review, chastising me for viewing the movie while under the influence of a few cold ones. Well, years later, I still stand by my opinion of that movie, and believe that imbibing a couple of brewskis is the only way you can watch that feculent flick. However, when I was asked by Fango if I wanted to review ZOMBIE STRIPPERS moments before stepping into the screening room, it brought back memories of my killer-crap review. You see, I had just had a couple of drinks during the pre-show cocktail hour with my pal Willie, and although I was far from inebriated, now that I’m an older, wiser and more respectable man, I contemplated the sagacity of accepting the job…
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Writer-director Jason Horton writes in to inform us work is complete on his indie zombie endeavor Edges of Darkness. Three tales woven into one, “Darkness” concerns itself with a zombie apocalypse and, naturally, those trying to save their asses from the undead.
Story one focuses on a pair of vampires (you read that right) and the young girl they are slowly bleeding dry while they ride out the zombie outbreak. An obsessive horror writer fuels tale two. Stuck with his wife, he maintains his sanity by writing, using the limited power they have to keep his word processor going. But soon he finds out there’s a high price to pay. And, wrapping things up, Heather, a headstrong gal with a niche for survival, takes in a mother and her son, unaware the latter has been targeted by renegade priests who want to see the boy dead.
Annemarie Pazmino, Shamika Ann Franklin, Alonzo F. Jones, Michelle Rose, Kelly Murray and Jay Costelo star. Horton co-wrote and co-directed the film with Blaine Cade.
A GORY movie starring Scots cannibal zombies is a massive hit in the States.