DN SXSW10: TUB – Bobby Miller

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To say webbie award winning director, Bobby Miller hit on a strange concept for his short TUB would be a pretty large understatement, but it’s a setup that successfully straddles comedy, drama and horror. Bobby and I took the DN SXSW interview experience to the crowds and bands of [...]

A.D. Zombie Teaser

Pardon my French, but this teaser for animated zombie flick A.D. looks shit the bed great! Info on the project is sparse, but there’s a decent interview with the creative team (Ben Hibon – director, Haylar Garcia – writer, Bernie Goldmann & Tarik Heitmann – producers) over at Zombie Info. Looks like they’re shooting for [...]

DN EP 151: COLIN – Marc Price

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Get out there make the film you want, with the kit you have to hand and recognition will follow. Despite sounding like a fairytale that indie filmmakers tell each other during the tough times, director Marc Price did just that for his debut zombie feature COLIN, which not only [...]

COLIN – Marc Price

COLIN (2009)
Colin is bitten by a zombie; he dies and returns as one of the undead. We follow him as he wanders through suburbia during the throes of a cadaverous apocalypse. Through his encounters with objects, places and people, we learn who Colin was and more pertinently, what he has now become.
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Thirst – Park Chan-Wook

The creature known as Vampire has featured in films for around 100 years now and the vampire movie has gone through many forms and various stages of popularity. In the last few years however, the vampire movie’s appeal seems to have increased no end and Hollywood has capitalised on this popularity with a string of [...]

ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip – Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann

ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free (2008)
First non-official video clip made for Zombie Zombie, the electrifying French duo of Etienne Jaumet and Cosmic Neman. Directed by Simon Gesrel and Xavier Ehretsmann thanks to their favourite toys… the GI Joes! The video is an hommage to the director AND soundtrack composer John [...]

Eden Lake – James Watkins

I’ve literally stepped out of the Eden Lake screening 10 minutes ago and instead of a relaxing train ride back to Brighton with my TV choice de jour, the blistering rage whirling around my brain is preventing me from any other distraction until I fully vent.
OK, so with an opening like that there’s little ambiguity [...]

DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness – Dan Schneidkraut

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It’s with complete unashamedness that I admit we discovered this week’s guest Dan Schneidkraut from our well mined source of the Filmstock Film Festival when El Vez spotted Daddy’s Time, Part two of Dan’s Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements quadrilogy of films. My interest in the films only [...]

Seeking Wellness – Dan Schneidkraut

Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements (2007)
A series of conceptual video projects exploring ideas relating to victimization, recovery and empathy.
Part One: Cup of Friendship, Shrine of Scars
Part Two: Daddy’s Time
Part Three: Malignant Love
Part Four: Final Project
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DN EP 044: Film Eight – Dan Gitsham

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Today I’m joined by Dan Gitsham to discuss his dark comedy, horror, Film Eight which is quite fitting as I’m recording this on Friday the 13th. Dan describes Film Eight as a run, hide, run, film which I suppose categorises the coming section as chat in the talk, chat, [...]