Once actual zombies attack the production, all hell breaks loose.
The director, driven mad in the pursuit of his art, demands “real” performances out of his actors. Shot on one continuous take, a small cast and crew film a zombie movie in an abandoned water filtration plant. One Cut of the Dead is an extremely low budget film with a cast of unknown actors. As we have seen the evolution of this horror sub-genre, it feels only fitting to end with the most meta zombie flick of all: Shinichiro Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead (2017). So to celebrate, we at Full Circle Cinema put together a curated, month-long series called Screen Screams. It is about time we put the spirit of Halloween back into that abandoned department store that we call the year of 2020.
And yet, the month of October waits for us all the same. We all know that this Halloween will not look like other Halloweens from years past.
