Dinosaurworldwide has just posted a celebratory video to youTube, one that encapsulates all that we love about Danger 5!

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Longer drinks, longer cigarettes, longer bullets, longer episodes!

Victory has a new name!

The show returns on SBS ONE in February. Viewers in Australia will be waiting eagerly. You lot elsewhere might have to nag your local networks to buy the rights to screen the show over where you are. Start now!

And remember to drink responsibly… except when sitting on the lounge watching the show!

• Danger 5 Website
• View all five episodes of Danger 5! The Diamond Girls at the Cinema of the Backbrain.

Life gets difficult enough when you’re a hitman just trying get the job done so you can make it to your kid’s birthday party on time. But things get worse after you stumble across an alien parasite that’s turning the extras into zombies.

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You can only hope you get Overtime (US-2011; dir. Matt Niehoff)…

Synopsis:

Raph (Al Snow) and Max (John Wells) only kill bad guys, and only after their boss Sam, a high-powered attorney, has cashed a nice paycheck for getting her sleazy clients off the hook.

When Sam sends our heroes on a routine hit, they find themselves caught up in a conspiracy they never imagined. But whatever trouble they’ve gotten themselves into is nothing compared to the wrath of Raph’s wife if he doesn’t make it home in time for his son’s birthday party.

Being a good hitman is tough; being a good dad is killer!

The Interview

To find out more about Overtime, the Backbrain’s News Hound, Avery Guerra, spoke to Brian Cunningham — the film’s Writer, Director of Photography and Producer:

Tell us a bit about yourself, Brian.

I’m a freelance director of Photography and producer working in Louisville Kentucky.  I’ve done work for clients such as GE, McDonalds and Papa John’s, but my real passion is filmmaking.  I ran a movie news and reviews blog for three years and have self-published two books about movies and pop-culture. The next project is a documentary about the Haunted House industry entitled “Monsters Wanted.”  (Check out MonstersWanted.com for more info).

Why this particular movie, Overtime?

The idea to make the movie came from my partner, Matt Niehoff.  We really wanted our first movie to be something fun and even a little bit silly. So many young filmmakers seem obsessed with creating work that is going to lead to awards and prestige, but when Matt and I talked about it we realized that the movies we loved as kids were the crazy comedies of the ’80s and the action films of the late ’90s (like Terminator 2 and Aliens).  We wanted to make those kinds of movies because we love escapist cinema, and we wanted the audience to be taken on a journey.  Plus it’s always more fun to blow things up than to shoot people talking.

Above: The movie stars WWE Superstar Al Snow, who gets bloodier than usual…

Any specific influences?

The movie draws heavily from ideas in movies like Aliens and From Dusk Til Dawn.  There’s a lot of Shaun of the Dead in there, tonally, and of course the Hit Man aspect will remind people of Boondock Saints and Pulp Fiction (mind you, I’m not comparing us to those movies … I’d never dream of going toe-to-toe with Tarantino).  What you might not think of, however, is the influence movies like Lethal Weapon had on Overtime.  When it gets down to it, this is a fun 1980s action comedy about two guys trying to balance work and family.  The zombie-alien side of things is almost incidental.

Above: Sebrina Siegel finds herself at the wrong end of a Shooter’s Party rally

Above: Stuck in a corner with blood and cake: John Wells, Sebrina Siegel, Erica Goldsmith and Al Snow

How did the project develop between you and Matt?

The idea for the movie came from Matt.  He wrote a rough draft of the script and asked me to take a look at it to see if I was interested in shooting it for him.  When I read it, I loved the whole conceit. I asked Matt if I could take a crack at changing some things, and he agreed. After that, it really became a 50-50 partnership. We went through a good twelve drafts together before shooting, and we worked together on casting, finding locations and testing out the makeup and effects. It was a really rewarding collaboration with each of us pushing each other every day.  We would rewrite entire scenes the night before the shoot, trying to make things a little more organic, a little funnier, and to take advantage of the talents of the awesome cast.

Above: Avri Ant’juan considers whether to shoot ‘em or… um… shoot ‘em

Check out this Behind-the-Scenes video:

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What are you plans for Overtime?

Our plans for Overtime are to get it in front of as many people as we can. We’ve started a pretty aggressive festival strategy (and it’s recently been announced that it will be  screening in Louisville on February 18 at the Derby City Film Festival), and we’re in the process of contacting distributors directly to try and make a deal.  We know from feedback from screenings and our website that there is a good market for this movie, and people who see it seem to have a really good time with it.

And if hitmen, alien parasites, blood and zombies aren’t enough, don’t forget there are tentacles as well!

Check out lots more pictures and a couple of alternative posters in the gallery below:

Sources: Brian Cunningham via Avery Guerra; Official website/blog; Facebook page; IMDb entry.

Addenda:

Earlier (slightly longer) Official Trailer:

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Outtakes:

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Kaiju Search-Robot Avery added this similarly themed greeting, which I thought I’d share — though we don’t have an actual attribution for the image:

And while we’re at it, some of the people whose work we’ve been featuring sent their greetings:

You can get more information about these exciting re-inventions of classic monster flicks on Undead Backbrain and the Brainspasm site:

• Return of the Killer Shrews: on Undead Backbrain here, here and the trailer here; on Undead Brainspasm here.
• Gila!: on Undead Backbrain here; and on the Brainspasm here.

Well, New Zealand director Patrick Gillies is righting this reprehensible wrong in a short film called Huhu Attack!

In Cold War-era rural New Zealand, two social misfits – a mousy spinster and a traveling magician – find love against a backdrop of small-town prejudice and 40ft-high mutant man-eating Huhu grubs!

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It’s Baz Luhrmann meets Peter Jackson in what the director describes as “an audacious 1950s-style comedy-horror musical extravaganza, featuring a spectacular score performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra.”

Song, dance, romance and…

… giant grubs!

Synopsis:

Rural New Zealand, 31st October 1957.  A Sputnik satellite crashes into the edge of a forest, irradiating the nearby flora and fauna.  When the Army is called in to investigate, their soldiers are inexplicably attacked by a 40ft-high mutant Huhu grub.  At the nearest township, two-bit traveling magician, Miles, falls for the charms of his mousy volunteer, Ngaire, whilst putting on a Halloween magic show for the locals.  Their blossoming romance is interrupted when the giant Huhu grubs invade, decimating the townsfolk.  Knocked unconscious, Miles awakes to find Ngaire nursing him back to health in a makeshift infirmary.  Citing Miles’ knowledge of pyrotechnics, she pleads her reluctant hero to lead the surviving townsfolk in their fight against the man-eating huhu grubs.  However, her faith in him is shattered when local agitator, Derek, arrives with soldiers to accuse Miles of being a Soviet spy, directly responsible for the Huhu grub menace.  Armed with supposed proof of his Eastern Bloc origins, the soldiers proceed with their intention to execute Miles.  After an impassioned and heart-wrenching plea of innocence, Miles is released and the united community rejoices in its new-found tolerance and enlightenment… but not for long!

Check out the trailer:

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 Huhu Attack! was shot on the Red One camera. Principle photography took place in Christchurch, New Zealand, over the course of four-and-a-half days in late November 2008.

Rather than using 3D (computer) animation, the producers resorted to the more traditional techniques of puppetry and over-cranked miniatures to achieve the illusion of the giant man-eating Huhu Grubs.

When asked about how the project got made, Gillies commented: “Some interesting facts for you: in its path to the big screen, the project received 21 funding rejections. Approx 80% of those people who read the script, rejected it. Conversely, about 80% of our funding was received from people who hadn’t read the script!” Then he added with due irony: “The moral = when making a monster film, don’t show people the script!”

So how was the Monster created?

I set out to create the film’s giant mutant Huhu grub monsters via 3D animation, but then early on, decided it would take too much time and effort, so opted for the (overcranked) miniature/arm-puppet route. Ultimately, the puppet also fitted with the aesthetic of 50s horror films … In the end, we did use two 3D animation shots, though: a shot of grubs on a log and then our epilogue shot of a giant … [actually, we might save that bit of spoilage for readers to experience for themselves when they see the film - Ed.]

Above: Early 3D conceptual drawings (aborted)

Above: 3D Huhu grub model stage 2

Above: Huhu puppet stage 1

Check out the gallery at the end of this article for more images of the Huhu puppet and early 3D model. The Gallery also includes more screenshots — and there are even more pictures on the film’s Facebook page.

So where can readers see the film?

Festivals at the moment. Only five festival laurels feature on the poster, but we have been selected for eight fests in total: Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival (Panorama), Beverly Hills Shorts Fest (Official Selection), Seattle International Film Festival (Official Selection), Palm Springs ShortFest (Official Selection and Best of Fest 2011: Audience Favourite Comedies), New Zealand International Film Festival (Homegrown: Flights of Fantasy), Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (Official Selection), Traverse City Shorts Festival (Official Selection) and Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival.

Addendum: Sample Storyboard Sequence:

Source: Patrick Gillies via Avery Guerra; Facebook page. See this article for more Behind the Scenes pictures and images of the location shoot. You can download director Gillies bio and filmography here in PDF form.

Gallery:

I’m not sure what the title of this new film from director/writer/dp/editor Michael Rigler says about the titular beastie (… it’s a big tentacle with a claw at the end? … hmmm, maybe… stay on until the end of this article and you may find out!), but viewing the trailer will give you clear insight into its old-school, monochromatic, tongue-in-cheek referencing of classic B-monster flicks from the 1950s.

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Synopsis:

The Tentacle’s Claw is the story of one man’s quest to use the power of mind control to take over the world, and the one woman who could stop him.

Dr Demonious Horlack has set up his laboratory of horrors in a quiet, seaside town. The former Nazi scientist has devised a way to control simple creatures using the power of the mind. With the help of his assistant Gunda, he has gained power over a giant cephalopod, and is using the creature as his personal assassin.

Fortunately for the people of the planet, there is a schoolteacher, Marie LeMay,  living in the same town. As the traumatic tentacle attacks start to take their gruesome toll, Marie begins to unlock innate, psychic abilities. Her brainy scientist boyfriend, Professor Dick Goodwin, helps her recognize the potential she has deep within the recesses of her mind. The stage is set for an epic, psychic showdown. But can she prevail, or will Dr Horlack carry out his evil plans to take over the world and make Marie his psychic slave-bride?

Once completed,  The Tentacle’s Claw will be feature length (there’s approximately 67 minutes of it at the moment, Rigler tells us). “My wife Tara Manuel is the star and producer,” he said, “and we made the film on a shoestring budget. We raised about $1,200 through a Cabaret we staged to feed the cast and crew and buy a few costumes!”

Above: Smoking (and surreptitious tentacles) can be bad for you

Above: Dr Horlack attacks Marie psychically, using a tentacle on loan from Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood

Above: Never trust rabbits, children or clocks during psychic attacks

Above: the secret is out! The bad guys (and Rigler) got their monster by mail order via the ads at the back of a 1957 issue of Confidential.

And finally, a special treat! An exclusive for Undead Backbrain readers — a glimpse of the monster itself! Say “Hi!” and be nice!

Filmed on location in Corner Brook, Newfoundland with a cast of local actors, The Tentacle’s Claw is slated for a January 2012 release. More pics, cast info and startling revelations that may kill you if you read them unprepared can be found on the official website. Dare you go there?

Source: Michael Rigler via Avery.

[Scratches arm, pats cat, removes some zombie detritus from under the table ... been meaning to get rid of that for a while ... oh, you're back? Cool looking movie, eh?]

Well, things have been moving along at the usual languid shuffle pace of the classic zombie, but two trailers have now surfaced along with more images and an 8-minute behind-the-scenes video. Check them out! They’re infused with irony and a wry humour. And zombies from outer space, of course!

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Behind the Scenes:

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Gallery of Images: Click to view

Source: via Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood.

Go read the review if you want to know all about the film — which features a monster with a conceptual relationship to the guy pictured below and who lives a similar life-style, albeit a bit less superhero-connected and without being an acquaintance of Howard the Duck:

At any rate the good news is that Muckman hits DVD this month:

According to distributor Chemical Burn Entertainment, Brett (Drainiac and much else besides) Piper and Mark (Splatter Beach) Polonia’s old school swamp monster movie Muckman is finally going to be released on DVD on September 20th, 2011. Besides the movie itself, the disc will also contain several special features, such as an audio commentary, a behind-the-scenes featurette, a photo gallery and a trailer show.

Muckman is a charming homage to the drive-in classics of yesteryear, which was originally shot in 2009. The film, which was just shown at Germany’s renowned Weekend Of Horror festival a few weeks ago, tells the story of a sensation-seeking TV crew that hunts down a fabled swamp thing-like creature, the so-called Muckman, in the musty mires of Pennsylvania. Featuring a talented ensemble cast including the lovely scream queens Anju (Shock-O-Rama) McIntyre, Alison (Bacterium) Whitney and Danielle (Halloween Night) Donahue, Muckman is jam-packed [more mud-packed, I would've thought] with all the ingredients of a highly entertaining retro-fright fest—gruesome rubber-suit monsters, wicked stop-motion critters, accomplished practical effects, likable characters, tongue-in-the-cheek humor and, of course, a slimy, tentacle-draped fiend from beyond the surface!

Here’s the full DVD cover, back and front, which you can study in detail with a flick of the mouse-finger:

So take a look at the trailer, all you swamp-monster aficionados, and start saving your detritus for the big day!

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• Source: Brett Piper via Avery Guerra; more info about the film and the upcoming DVD release can be found on Brett Piper’s homepage (www.brettpiper.com) and Facebook page (www.facebook.com/brettpiperofficial), as well as Chemical Burn Entertainment’s website (www.chemicalburn.org).

Addendum: Lest we forget Muckman’s old-school inspirations

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No, this Perfect Touch TVC advertisement doesn’t represent the Backbrain’s sudden embracing of commercialism. In fact, it’s a lead-in to a new Australian horror/comedy short film called I Rot (Australia-2011; short; dir. Josef J. Weber).

A satire of corporate ambition, I Rot ironically identifies the moral decay festering at the heart of a cosmetics empire.

Synopsis:

Pete Waterman (Terry Rogers) is on a hunt to find happiness in his rotten world as CEO to the world’s largest cosmetics company. His job is the only aspect of his rotten life that makes him happy but when his job is threatened to be taken away by the four employees he despises most, Pete takes murderous action. Pete is backed into a corner and the only way out is to slice and dice his way out.

I Rot is a gore fest packed with action, terror and laughs so outrageously over the top you will love to hate Pete Waterman.

Trailer:

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Director Josef J. Weber graduated from Flinders University South Australia in 2008 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts in Screen Studies, an in the brief time between then and now he has made two short horror films — The Decayed (2009) and now I Rot. Josef identifies himself as a director of horror films.

“Horror films were a staple in my upbringing as a genre filmmaker — from the age of 11,” he commented. “I’m fascinated with exploring the darker side in the characters and the worlds I created on the script page.” In fact, he prides himself on being an up-and-coming director in the horror genre.

An official selection at the 2011 International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival, I Rot is currently doing the festival rounds, so keep an eye out — not literally, of course, unless you’re that way inclined.

Weber says that an I Rot feature film is currently in script development, along with a handful of other scripts. “Next step for me,” he added, “is a feature.”

You can check out his previous film, The Decayed, in its entirety at the Undead Backbrain cinemaplex here.

Sources: Josef J. Weber via Avery Guerra. Official Website; Twitter; IMDb.

But according to the folk at Cincinnati-based production company Moriah Media, there is one popular, even iconic film that hasn’t been so effectively parodied. Watch their very early, rough-and-ready teaser, made as part of the company’s sales pitch to potential investors, and see if you can pick what that film is. Keep in mind that there is nothing final about this and that it is only generally reflective of the finished product.

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Yes, it’s a spoof of Godzilla: King of the Monsters! Or more specifically the Americanised version of the 1954 Japanese film Gojira and the extensive tradition that developed from it. While the daikaiju eiga subgenre has been lampooned more than once, never at the scale that writer/director Mitch Teemley envisages.

Notzilla: Duke of the Monsters (US-[date TBA]; dir. Mitch Teemley)

Short Synopsis:

1964 – A strange red egg, shaken loose by atomic testing, hatches an immense, fire-breathing dinosaur with a penchant for beer. Only “brilliant, young American scientist,” Dr. Dick Harvard, can stop him with his atomic molecule blaster. But then things go awry… and meanwhile, Notzilla is partying hard.

According to Teemley, Notzilla, which so far exists as a screenplay and some test imagery, is designed to be an affectionate Zucker Bros. style send-up of Godzilla, “one of the most widely seen film series in history”. He adds that the screenplay for Notzilla has received universal praise and was the only spoof to ever make it to the final round of the Worldfest Contest, one of the largest screenplay competitions in the world.

Actually I offered the project to Toho not long after I wrote it. They weren’t interested in spoofing their own films, but wished us well. Parodies are not plagiarism; if they were, Saturday Night Live would have been shut down 35 years ago! Notzilla will not feature any footage from Toho films, nor will the monster be a visual copy of Godzilla (see conceptual art below — note: Notzilla concept art: Poster and Monster Profile – these were done by a cartoonist – the actual poster will be photographic, not cartoon, in style, and the actual monster suit will be more realistic and dinosaur-like, i.e. satirical, but subtle.)

Nor is the film a fan-type, no-budget, extended joke.

Notzilla is intended for mainstream release (we have serious interest from both the majors and large indie distributors), and Moriah Media is for-profit company, by the way. A Fox Searchlight analyst estimated a $40 million North American box office gross; international box office is expected to exceed that. We are actively seeking completion funding!

The project already boasts the involvement of some serious talent, including Patrick Warburton, who starred in the terrific superhero spoof TV series, The Tick.

Teemley told the Backbrain:

Patrick Warburton (Seinfeld, The Tick, Rules of Engagement) is attached to star. I wrote the lead role of the “brilliant young American scientist”, Dr Dick Harvard (who’s actually not very brilliant nor very young) for him. All of the other leads are Japanese.

Notzilla has not yet been filmed. We are in the midst of capitalization and are using the teaser [above] to generate investor interest. I appeared as a guest at G-Fest in Chicago last year and read segments of the screenplay to a very enthusiastic crowd. We’ve lined up some crack crew heads: Production Designer Robert Harbour designed sets for Heroes and X-Files; multi-Emmy winning Director of Photography Jeff Barklage shot the teaser; Oscar-nominated producer Melissa Godoy is also attached to oversee production.

Notzilla purports to be a restored print of a 1966 Japanese film, a long-lost classic of the genre. It begins with a special “anniversary release” prologue in which Rudy McBernstein, president of Great Big Impressive Pictures International, introduces viewers to the 1966 masterpiece, Notzilla, the Duke of Monsters, the last film ever to feature American TV star Raymond L. Suave (Patrick Warburton).

From there, it becomes both a parody of and homage to the worst aspects of early Japanese monster pictures.

Full Synopsis:

In the future (1975), “brilliant young American scientist” Dr Dick Harvard (played by not-so-brilliant and not-so-young Raymond L. Suave) leads a team of crack scientists in atomic testing (no one knows why) near Yomama Bay. The unexpected result (these scientists don’t watch enough B-pictures): a prehistoric egg is shaken loose, after being exposed to massive amounts of radiation. Of course.

Dick’s mentor, “brilliant old Japanese scientist”, Dr Nissan Toyota, succeeds in hatching a dinosaur! But then it escapes, and begins growing at an alarming rate. Of course.

Dr Toyota wants to save the creature. But Dick is certain it will attack Tokyo. “Because that’s what always happens”. The two split up. Dick goes off to build his atomic molecule blaster, which he admits will leave a radioactive cloud over Tokyo for fifty years (“but after that you’ll never even know it was there”), while Toyota seeks a gentler alternative that will keep the monster alive.

Notzilla attacks Tokyo. Sort of. Actually he’s on a lark, playing with the miniature city, reversing toy trains, eating plastic soldiers, running a touchdown with a blimp under his arm. He parties hard while thousands of people run screaming in the streets (actually a couple dozen of the same people run screaming over and over again).

The army, led by General Buzz Kurosawa (George Takei—Star Trek, Heroes), is powerless to stop the monster (though Kurosawa, an amateur filmmaker, does get some great footage). Dick completes his controversial molecule blaster. He’s about to use it when Dr. Toyota shows up with his alternative device. In a rage, Dick accidentally turns the blaster on himself, resulting in his own over-the-top death scene—which schlock actor Raymond L. Suave had hoped would result in an Oscar nomination. It didn’t.

Toyota’s device stops Notzilla, but does not kill him, leaving the creature free to defend Tokyo from other latex monsters in the future!

Teemley sees Notzilla as a sure-fire winner.

Notzilla is a classic monster movie spoof with heart—it makes a gently teasing statement about cultural arrogance.  Also … reversing the trend toward raunchy, R-rated parodies, Notzilla is a family-friendly PG film with positive values.  It’s clean enough for grandparents to take their grandkids to … and hip enough for college guys to drag their girlfriends to. Everyone will love Notzilla!

Some other aspects of the proposed film:

• The expected budget is $1.5 million. There’s a complete package (Investors Memorandum and Business Plan) available for any potential investors out there. It’s a great opportunity; they expect return on investment in the 1,000 to 2,000% range.
• They’re looking at a 2012 shoot and a 2013 release.
• No, there are no other daikaiju, aliens, or creatures. Notzilla is basically a spoof of the original one-monster flicks (Godzilla/Gojira, Mothra, Rodan, Gamera, etc.), rather than the “versus” films. It’s in colour, of course, widescreen, and utilizes a single Anglo-American actor in a lead role as did a number of the Toho films.
• All f/x will be suitmation and miniatures, since Notzilla purports to be a film made in the pre-CGI era. Other vintage f/x will include rear-screen projection, robotics, and cheezy practicals—shaking the camera, for example, to indicate an explosion.

Sources: Director Mitch Teemley via Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood.

Links: Notzilla Facebook page; Moriah Media website, Moriah Media Facebook page.

Poisoned is a zombie comedy, filmed in Israel by David Lubetzky ( דידי לובצקי ) and currently in the final editing stages.

Synopsis (short):

What makes this night different from all nights?

On this night, the army really marches on its stomach! Passover at the base can be a real blow. Especially if you are a custodian stuck with  a psychopathic commander, you’re high school crush has suddenly arrived and all the soldiers have become flesh-eating zombies.

But who’s not used to suffering at the Seder?

Synopsis (long):

Bino Aharonovitch is a legendary Israeli war hero. His son Danny (David Shaul, pictured on right below)) is far from it. He does his national service as an assistant custodian in a remote base which serves as the home base of “Nachlieli” (the Wagtail) — one of the IDF’s elite units. He spends his days avoiding the violent soldiers and his OCD captain.

But on Passover night, the worst night for an Israeli custodian, his life is about to change. His high-school crush Maya (Orna Shifris) arrives to deliver vaccines to the fighters. She mistakes Danny for one of the fighters and shows interest in him for the first time. Danny keeps up the lie, but fate has different plans. The vaccine makes the elite troops turn into flesh-eating zombies who go on killing the rest of the soldiers in the base.

Danny, being the only one left uninfected, runs for his life — until he finds out that he isn’t the only survivor. Used to avoiding conflict, he now realizes that this time there is no escape.

Danny is going to have to utilize his only skills in order to save himself and his love — gardening skills!

Undead Backbrain spoke to the director David Lubetzky (pictured above, on set) about the film:

I am the writer, director and co-producer of Poisoned. The movie is a 50-min long zombie comedy set in the Israeli army. It began as an idea for a feature film written by me and my friends at the Tel Aviv University Film School. We decided, with the support of the university and a couple of public funds in Israel, to pursue making this complicated film as a university project — although it remains mostly an independent and self-financed film.

The script was written as a cross-genre film, combining a unique style of Israeli cult comedies and the zombie genre with all its conventions. The basis of the story is a coming-of-age story, set in an environment unique to Israel. Plus – zombies. The zombie genre until late didn’t exist in Israeli cinema. (We are now witnessing a renaissance in horror films, especially zombies. Coincidence? I don’t know). Through this combination, the film brings a new take on the genre, and hopefully has an appeal to both local and international viewers.

I have a lot of love for horror genre, and producing Poisoned was influenced by a few of the genre’s icons such as Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead, Neil Marshal’s early work, and of course most of Romero’s body of work.

Since the movie has a parody tone to it, we nod at many other movies such as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Die Hard, Scarface and even Blade, along with many Israeli comedy classics.

These days I am working on developing another horror comedy in the same genre.

By why is it called Poisoned?

The name “Poisoned” is a translation of the Israeli army slang word “Muralim”, meaning the love of the army and/or unit beyond anything else. As in “This guy loves the army; he is really poisoned”, for example.

Teaser Trailer:

Cast:

• David Shaul – Danny the assistant custodian.
• Orna Shifris – Maya the medic
• Arthur Perry – Shauli the veteran
• Rudy Saada – Menny the Captain custodian
• Yehuda Fridman – Ben Dov the sergeant
• Maggi Azarzar – Rona the secretary
• Shabi Shavit – Shiloni the squad commander

Crew:

• Didi Lubetzky – Writer and Director
• Nadav Shlomo Giladi – Producer – NG Productions
• David Michael Shachar – Cinematographer
• Hilla Michowiz Setton – Editor
• Co producer – Didi Lubetzky
• Script Editor – Yael Oron
• Score – Omer Vashdi
• Sound – Vitali Grinshpon
• Assistant Directors – Avishai Krashin and Shai Nir
• Make-up effects -Keren Talias
• Assistant Cinemtographer- Simon Birman

More images from the film and on set in the Gallery below.

Sources: Didi Lubetzky via Avery Guerra. Facebook page; photos taken on set by Simon Birman.