Hollywood eyes $70 zombie movie wowing Cannes

Posted on June 8, 2009 in Filmmaking 360 | No Comments

CNN covers the story of a “Colin” a $70 Zombie flick made by Marc Price that screened at Cannes.

… With help from a makeshift band of friends and volunteers, Price shot and edited the feature — which ingeniously spins the zombie genre on its 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.”

— CNN.com | Read The Full Article