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    $70 Zombie Film Rocks Cannes

    I'm so not kidding...

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movi...lin/index.html

    CANNES, France (CNN) -- A budding British director is enjoying success on a shoestring at Cannes with "Colin," a new zombie feature that cost a scarcely believable $70 to make.
    "Colin" director Marc Price who spent 18 months making the film, working nights at a private car hire firm.

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    Japanese distributors are currently in negotiations for the rights to the film and buzz around the no-budget zombie chiller has attracted interest from some major American distributors -- all of which is a very nice surprise for the team behind "Colin."

    "We were almost fainting at the list of people who were coming [to the final market screening of the film]," said Helen Grace of Left Films who is helping the film's director Marc Price publicize the film in Cannes. "Representatives from major American distributors -- some of the Hollywood studios."

    "When we say it's a low budget film, people presume a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]. People can't figure out how it's possible. What Marc's achieved has left people astonished."

    It was by advertising for volunteer zombies on social networking site Facebook, borrowing make-up from Hollywood blockbusters and teaching himself how to produce special effects that thrifty director Price was able to make the film for less than the price of a zombie DVD box set.

    "The approach was to say to people, 'OK guys, we don't have any money, so bring your own equipment,'" the the 30 year-old director told CNN.

    With help from a makeshift band of friends and volunteers, Price shot and edited the feature -- which ingeniously spins the zombie genre on it's head by telling the story entirely from the zombie's perspective -- over a period of 18 months while working nights part-time as a booker for a taxi company.

    Online social networking was an invaluable tool in both generating buzz and cheaply sourcing the undead: "We went on Facebook and MySpace and said 'Who wants to be a zombie?'" Price told CNN. "We managed to get 50 brilliantly made up zombies and stuff them into a living room."

    In keeping with Price's beg and borrow approach, most of the zombie make-up in the make-up artists' cases was inherited from other movies. "One of our make-up people came off 'X-Men 3,' so we were having the same latex that was put on Wolverine," he told CNN.

    Price says he came up with the idea to make a no-budget film because he realized that he and his friends would never be able to scrape together enough money to make even a low-budget film.

    "A couple of friends were round a few years ago watching Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead,' recalls Price. "And we were lamenting the fact that we could never make a zombie film -- we wouldn't be able to acquire a budget."

    "Then I just woke up before everyone else -- I was probably a bit hungover -- and I wondered if a zombie movie from a zombie's perspective had been done before."

    The end result is "Colin," a zombie film "with a heart," Price says, shot using production values cribbed from endless re-watching of making-of featurettes and director's commentaries from his personal DVD collection.

    Zombie fan Web site zombiefriends.com called it "as original, compelling and thought provoking as [George] Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead,'" while horror magazine SCARS predicted it would "revolutionize zombie cinema."

    Price hopes that the film will generate enough interest to kick-start his career and allow him to make another film. "Hopefully we'll be able to generate some interest and maybe try to get some kind of a budget for our next film -- maybe a bigger budget, £100, I don't know."
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    Price's cost-effective filmmaking may make him the envy of film executives sweating over whether their latest projects will break even, but even "Colin" may suffer at the market: "In a strange way it's kind of counter-productive." admits Price.

    "Anyone involved in sales will say, 'Oh, it cost [$70], well how much do you expect us to pay for that?' but with the current economic climate it seems to be a great way to make movies."
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    So, what exactly did Price spend the famous $70 on?

    "We bought a crowbar and a couple of tapes, and I think we got some tea and coffee as well -- not the expensive stuff either, the very basic kind," Price told CNN. "Just to keep the zombies happy."

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    Zombie fan Web site zombiefriends.com called it "as original, compelling and thought provoking as [George] Romero's 'Night of the Living Dead,'" while horror magazine SCARS predicted it would "revolutionize zombie cinema

    Wow, just wow. I want to see this.

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    this would be cool to see

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    hmm..I'm skeptical at best. $70 movie is really cheap unless your gonna make "The Whore Mangler 2"

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    pretty nice i like low budget films but lets hope you can't tell it was made for 70 bucks.

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    Sounds like a winner to me , love low budget and $70 sounds pretty low

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    This fills me with hope, especially in a time where Hollywood is dictating remake after remake. I had a dig around and found some interesting things, but rather than tell you about it, why don;t I just give you the linky-poos?

    The full trailer:



    The official site can be found here: linky-poo

    This is what the horror community has been needing, fresh blood with plenty of passion to get the movies made despite the hurdles and barriers set in their paths *Has a moment of the warm fuzzies*

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    Defientely can tell the low-budget in the quality of the film, but otherwise looks good. Didn't realize a trailer was out, should have done some more searching after posting this thread.

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    This actually looks really good, sweet zombie action!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alba Dellamorta View Post
    This fills me with hope, especially in a time where Hollywood is dictating remake after remake. I had a dig around and found some interesting things, but rather than tell you about it, why don;t I just give you the linky-poos?

    The full trailer:



    The official site can be found here: linky-poo

    This is what the horror community has been needing, fresh blood with plenty of passion to get the movies made despite the hurdles and barriers set in their paths *Has a moment of the warm fuzzies*

    All Last Of The Living...

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    Cool! This is the kind of film that aspiring filmmakers need to watch. To think, with almost no money, they could make something halfway decent such as this. Beats that CGI crap any day. :bow:

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    I agree its worth a shot if it is shocking as everybody says for how much the film cost.

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    Looks pretty great for $70 film.

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    The premise is certainly interesting. I've been waiting for a film to take that perspective for a long while now.

    I'll just wait and see

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    Very cool.

    Will be keepoing an eye out forr this one...daily.

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    Wont believe it was only 70 bucks until I see the reciepts.

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