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Director: Julián Lara
Starring: Beatriz Mateo, María Minagorri Julián Lara, José Manuel Gómez, Jesús Gallardo
Screenplay: Julián Lara
Duration: 75 minutes
Country: Spain
Year: 2003 |
Julian Lara is what all small independent movie
makers are: Scriptwriter, director, actor, production
designer, editor, and composer. The director of
the Spanish short horror film, Evil Night (2002), returns here with Deadhunter: Sevillian
Zombies. Filmed on a budget that could only
aspire to be shoestring, Lara has done the best
with what he has at his hands. Running at 76 minutes,
this is Lara's first full feature, and funnily
enough entertains despite its glaring faults. It
appears that Dead Hunters is the set up for a series
of films, with the sequel Zombie Xtreme,
now available from his website.
The dead are walking the earth, and in most cases,
the living run for their lives, but wait, there
is one group who won't stand for it anymore,
a crack team of volunteers who protect the living
against the threat of the living dead, they are…The
Dead Hunters.
Shot in Spanish, with English subtitles, Deadhunter:
Sevillian Zombies is in the flavor of some
of the indie films that made it to video in the
late eighties/ early nineties, like Nudist
Colony of the Dead or Curse of
the Queer Wolf. Poor acting, dodgy weapon
effects, shaky camera work, zombie make up that
ranges from masks to green face paint, dialogue
that barely makes sense (at one point, the priest
of the group Father Dan, claims that "we'll
kill them and fuck them all.") and special
effects that are anything but! The thing is though,
when it comes to an independent feature, what
do you want? If you expect Shakespeare or Spielberg,
you will be disappointed, but if you expect something
from the lower end of the Troma scale, you love
it. Full of silly slapstick (an old one-legged
guy fending of four zombies with his crutches),
musical numbers (a gentleman who fends off two
zombies with "The Dance of the Handkerchiefs")
and sound effects that wouldn't be out of
place in a Warner Brothers cartoon, I can think
of worse ways to spend 75 minutes of your life
(slamming you head in a car door comes to mind).
Fans of trashy independent films like those named
above beware; Julian Lara is coming for you!! |
