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Finally…

More at the film’s myspace page. I actually have a script for a shot zombie horror that would work for this. Hmmmm.

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Cool poster! Here’s the sneak peek trailer as seen on foxatomic.com:

This looks awesome. The budget’s slightly (read a lot) larger than 28 Days Later and it looks like they’ve put the cash to good use. I can’t wait to see this one.

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I love these re-cut trailers. This is a movie I’d love to see.

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The more I see the more I want to see. Next month can’t come fast enough!

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This is the trailer Last House Films put together for the SXSW Grindhouse Trailer Competition. Sex, gore, violence, guns, and nudity. A woman is taken captive and forced to breed zombies….but she will get her revenge in this homage to the film trailers of the 1970’s. Directed by Todd Cobery, Produced by Brady Kiernan, Director of Photography Wilson Webb.

Now that’s a grindhouse trailer! Well done. It had every element I look for in a grindhouse movie gore, sex ultra violence and of course zombies! This treat comes to us from the director of Zombie Dodgeball as seen in a previous post. How do I know that? He dropped me a line and told me so.

Thanks for the note Todd and good luck with the SWSX trailer competition. To take a look at more of the entries in the competition head on over to YouTube. They’re not all zombie trailers but some are pretty good. The title Hobo with A Shotgun drew me in.

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A Vietnam War Movie… with Zombies.

Created by Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy
SXSW Grindhouse Trailer

Stop motion can be fun sometimes. Check out Bloodee for a huge list of more cool, but sadly mostly non-zombie, Grindhouse trailers.

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Finally! A teaser trailer for Fido. [source Twitch]

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While surfing the boards over at All Things Zombie I happened across a link this two year old little Finnish zombie flick aptly called Winter of the Dead:

An epic story about a battle between three survivors and the living dead altered by nuclear radiation. In the ravaged landscape of Eastern Finland, Toni, Marika and Risto are getting prepared for the last attack of the mutants. The fate of the survivors is uncertain.

Well that sounds like some ultra-chilly zombie goodness. Let’s have a look at the trailer:

Yikes! Although the zombies are fast it looks well done. I wonder if the soundtrack is any good. Here’s the opening theme, Kuolleiden Talvi (Winter of the Dead for those who don’t read Finnish):

If you like that the entire soundtrack, composed and produced by Matias Puumala, is available for free download. Get it now!

The soundtrack is not the only thing that’s free. You can download the entire movie right from the Winter of the Dead website free of charge… for nothing… gratis. I did. With FlashGet it only took 12 minutes.

The movie comes as a 342mb WMV file and doesn’t look too bad from a quality standpoint. I watched it at fullscreen on my monitor at a resolution of 1280×1024. I don’t think it would make the jump to my widescreen HD TV as there were compression related artifacts on the screen throughout. However it was more than watchable. There were a few glitches in the file toward the end but it really didn’t take away from the overall experience.

I’m lazy and don’t always enjoy reading movie subtitles. These were necessary as I don’t understand Finnish, even though Sami Salo is one of my favourite hockey players. At times the translation was obviously slightly off but that added to the entertainment.

Inexpensively made, but well shot, this movie entertained me. I was impressed. The story, acting and effects are all pretty decent as far a no-budget film goes. A great back story with a mix of humour and buckets of gore kept me watching. Sadly the film only last for a bit over 35 minutes and I wanted to see more. As like with most good shorts I’ve seen they leave you wondering why it couldn’t have been stretched out to feature length. This one definitely could. Perhaps the right folks will see Winter of the Dead and the filmmakers can have enough cash to see the story through some more.

I give Winter of the Dead a 7.5 out of 10.

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Directed by Scott Thomas from a script he wrote with Mark Onspaugh and Sidney Iwanter, and produced by David Shoshan.

Synopsis:

Only a handful of survivors remain… now, the clock is ticking, the pilots are dead, no place to land, fuel is running out, the dead are hungry and they are coming…

‘Plane Dead’ is a special effects-packed sci-fi/horror/action thriller about a routine flight from LA to Paris on which a renegade scientist, on the run from the CIA, has smuggled a secret coffin containing the body of a scientist infected with a deadly genetically-engineered virus.

The 747 jumbo jet collides with two massive thunderstorms at once, which drops it into the eye of an inescapable storm. The non-stop turbulence triggers the release of the infected ‘flesh eating’ scientist from the cargo hold. A life-and-death battle ensues as the virus turns the unsuspecting passengers into ‘the undead’, and the terrified uninfected passengers try to survive the flight they wish they missed.

Now, no government will allow the ‘infected’ 747 jumbo jet to land. Stranded in the air, the passengers have no place to hide from their ravenous tormentors… Flying the deadly skies…”

Here’s the trailer:

Last year we saw Snakes on a Plane, this year it’s zombies on a plane in Plane Dead. This s more up my zombie lovin’ alley. Snakes on a plane? Not so scary. But the undead? Yikes! There’s nowhere to go on a plane. Maybe the cockpit or a tiny little washrooom, but you’d have to fight through zombies and other survivors to hole up in any one of those places. Not fun. I’m not a good flier to begin with. Ugh!

Here’s a few of pictures from the official site (there’s more there). I just had to post these they were too great to pass up:

This film looks like a jet load of zombie goodness. I can’t wait to see it. I don’t see a release date, so I’m emailing them now to get some more information. Hopefully they’ll get back to me and we can follow this one along.

This year is shaping up to be a fun one for zombie lovers.

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Looks as though 2007 is shaping up to be the year of the zombie movie. With flicks like 28 Weeks Later, Fido and and a pile more on the horizon how could one think any differently.

This one, American Zombie, has a couple of unusual bits of trivia attached to it.

One is that it was produced by a Korean company planning to produce a number of English language films in the near future.

The second tidbit is that the film was written and directed by, Grace Lee of 2005’s The Grace Lee Project. Yes, a female. That is very rare in the horror genre to say the least. But, I know chicks dig horror too. My wife likes it lots.

Grace’s film appears to take a look at the genre from an entirely different and somewhat sensative angle. Humanizing zombies? Sure. Why not?

Here’s the trailer:

Funny! Zombie prejudice definitely needs some exposure. They are, after all, people too. After a fashion at least.

From GreenCine Daily:

“I won’t say with any confidence that American Zombie is an allegory about Muslims or undocumented immigrants or anything else specific,” writes Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir. “It might just be a goof on the silliness of contemporary media that gets a little broader and darker as it goes along. But the mere fact that [Grace] Lee can make both a media satire and, in the end, a creepy horror flick, while at least alluding to bigger social issues, suggests the breadth of her wit and intelligence.”

Grace is blogging her experiences at Slamdance and seems quite please d with the film’s reception after its world premiere last Saturday:

“The audience was great — they really seemed to get the movie and were troopers, after a couple of nervewracking technical problems. While they were fixing the sound, Austin Basis, who plays Ivan, started passing out one of his Slamdance special edition ‘zines and people went apeshit. People have been coming up to him at the festival, asking for more copies of that thing. Now I want him to do a special edition for every festival.”

For a full interview with Grace Lee check out this article at Bloody Disgusting. In the article Grace alludes to the possiblity of a “Canadian Zombie”. Holy shit! Count me in. I am the zombiefreak and I am Canadian. Audition please. Acting chops don’t fail me now…

Congratulations to Grace and everyone else involved with American Zombie. Sounds like more success is just around the corner. Way to go!

Who said the zombie genre was dead? It keeps on coming back to life one way or another. As it should. No irony there.

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