{"id":7649,"date":"2010-05-29T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=7649"},"modified":"2010-05-29T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T02:26:00","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-frantic-undead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/29\/weekend-fright-flick-frantic-undead\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick: Frantic Undead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This weekend’s journey into monstrosity comes from artist Maxwell Perry, whom we featured earlier in the week<\/a> for his upcoming giant squid animated short called, not inappropriately, Giant Squid<\/em>. In that article I promised you a look at his previous film, an animated zombie film — Frantic Undead<\/strong><\/em> (US-2009; short [8.35 min.]).<\/p>\n

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Here’s what he told us about it:<\/p>\n

The idea for Frantic Undead<\/em> came after I participated in a charity benefit zombie-walk in 2008. I was working in my studio one day thereafter and started drawing on my digital tablet. What I ended up with eventually became the scene where Ethyl chops one of the zombie’s arms off as they try to smash through the bedroom door.<\/p>\n

I had a few scenes together in no time, and a few weeks later I had the original trailer<\/a> for Frantic Undead<\/em>. Actually, the first trailer was made before there was even a script for the film. Fortunately, I was aware, even at that point, that what I wanted out of the project was to create an old school 1970s style cabin-in-the-woods zombie cartoon.<\/p>\n

After I worked on it for about three months, some friends of mine came over to voice-over the entire script. I used my dining room as a recording studio. It’s a little funny really. Here we were doing take after take, screaming obscenities at the top of our lungs, at my dining room table with a microphone between us in the middle of the day. It wasn’t exactly \u201cThe Simpsons,\u201d but of course, that was never really the idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Pictured below is the voice cast, obviously worn out from chowing down on all the blood and human flesh: from left to right, Jason, Lauren, Anna, Max:]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Frantic Undead<\/em> contains lots of cartoon\u00a0 gore and cannibal zombie action, so as Perry says, “if you’re the type of person that enjoys a good laugh during an especially gory horror film”, then you’ll enjoy Frantic Undead<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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So grab your gun and shoot for the head!<\/p>\n

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Trailer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Full-Length Short — Frantic Undead<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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