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Director: Julián Lara
Starring: Julián Lara, Calamator, Arlekín, Mary Pain
Screenplay: Julián Lara
Duration: 35 minutes Country: Spain
Year: 2004 |
There is nothing more wonderful than the tenacity
of independent filmmakers. Julian Lara, the multi-tasking
filmmaker behind Deadhunter: Sevillian
Zombies is back…with another tale
of your favourite Zombie hunting rogues. Again,
Lara is actor, director, producer, special effects
guys, and I wouldn't be surprised is he
made someone a coffee at some point as well! This
short runs for a little over a half an hour, and
plays, and occasionally is edited, like a comic.
It's a little Scary Movie,
a little Romero, and occasionally a little Loony
Toons, but one thing it is completely,
is a fun and pretty well made short.
Zombie Xtreme takes place after
the Deadhunters successful mission where they
destroyed all of the zombies from Seville. Unfortunately,
like The Ghostbusters, they were
not respected for their work saving the town,
and instead were all arrested for the negligent
death of two of their kind, and so they were forced
to disband. Zombie Xtreme starts
with an ex-subway contractor, who after the zombie
holocaust in the tunnels, captured some of the
remaining zombies and created his extreme sports
facility: Zombie Xtreme, where for $90 per hour,
you can spend your time wandering through a building,
killing zombies and having a wow of a time. How
does he replenish the zombies you ask? Well, let's
just say not everyone who gets in…comes
out. One day, two of the Deadhunters, Julian and
Calamator hear of this facility, and realize their
work is not quite complete, and so along with
TV personality Arlekin, they decide it is time
to shut this business down.
There is no doubt that Lara is improving with
every step he takes. Zombie Xtreme is better written, better directed …basically
better all round. The zombie make up, done by
Make Up Factory, is still little more than Carnival
of Souls style with a few bleeding wounds,
but Lara, along with his gore companion Cesar
Lanaquera, has come up with some outrageous gore
pieces (one of the Deadhunters tries to strangle
a zombie with the zombies own intestines), which
occasionally don't work (the worst hand
cut off piece one shall ever see, the zombies
arm is about 2 feet longer than what it should
be). The worst that can be said about this movie
is the acting is occasionally bad, and once or
twice the lighting was out of whack, and some
scenes couldn't be seen properly.
If one of your lifelong dreams is to see a topless
female zombie convulsing in her death throes...
dream no longer. Lara has created some ridiculous
scenes, although none as silly as 'The Dance
of the Handkerchiefs' from DeadHunter:
Sevillian Zombies, including battling
a zombie with a guitar, serenading a zombie, a
hand to hand fight with a zombie that results
in a Matrix pisstake, and some of the most hilarious
dialogue you shall ever read, both deliberate
and accidental through translation (trapped in
a room full of rotting corpses, one of the Deadhunters
comments "How Stinky!"). Lara's
films are fun like Troma's stable, and are
getting better with every one he puts together;
I can't wait for the next one. |
