It's
been a while since the trailer for Danish zombie apocalypse "Escaping the
Dead" was shown to the world. The production has been on a hiatus, but the
team behind it has definately not been laying on the low nor stood still.
A new trailer has been released, featuring a cameo by none other than
Mr. Troma, indie guru Lloyd Kaufman:
IMDb
link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3334746/
"Escaping
the Dead" is inspired by a series of articles about the deathdrug
"Krokodil" that was published about the same period of time when Ronald
Poppo had his face eaten by a naked man hooked on bathsalt in Miami. It is the
perfect zombie plot: a deathdrug that turns people into zombies.
The film has its starting point in a typical day for the lead character,
David. David is the local marihuana pusher, but he is the kind of dealer that
smokes more than he sells. In the meantime the country has been hit by a new
deathdrug and when David and his partner in crime Ahmir is offered some
exceptionally cheap cocaine they see it as an opportunity to earn big money at
the big techno concert the following Friday, but the cocaine turns out to have
a terrible side effect that creates a giant zombie outbreak that spreads across
the entire Copenhagen. In the film we follow David and his bloody fight out of
the city.
Directed
by Martin Sonntag and Bastian Brinch Pedersen, the film stars Bastian Brinch
Pedersen (who is also the co-director and producer of the film) as David, Rama
Øzel as Ahmir, along with Dorte Rømer ("Breaking the Waves") and Kim
Sønderholm ("Cannibal Fog", "Run", "House of Many
Sorrows") playing Lars the policeman. Recently Lone Fleming, legendary
horror actress from the "Blind Dead" series and Danish origin joined
the cast to play Davids mother.
Since
meeting on "Escaping the Dead" in late 2013, Sonntag and Brinch
Pedersen have teamed up with Sønderholm to do the short horror film
"Harvest" (Original Danish title "Høsten"). This film is
now finished and will be available to the world via film festivals and the
likes in the near future.
"Harvest" on IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4012666/
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