One Cut of the Dead at the Guild Cinema
Friday & Saturday, September 27-28 – 10:30 pm only
Directed by Shinichirous Ueda – 2019 – 96m – In Japanese with English subtitles. An Alibi Midnight Movie Madness presentation! Seats $8.00/$6.00 students. Door Prizes courtesy of Bubonicon 52!
WINNER – Audience Award and Best Director, Fantastic Fest plus over 14 Audience Awards
“A-: the best zombie comedy since Shaun of the Dead. A euphoric ode to the chaos (and compromises) of genre filmmaking: it’s the kind of movie that makes you want to pick up a camera, call some friends, and shoot the end of the world on your own terms.” – DAVID EHRLICH, Indiewire
“Three films for the price of one- a terrific Japanese horror-comedy that proves there’s somewhere the zombie apocalypse movie hasn’t yet gone.” – RICHARD KUIPERS, Variety
“Does something many, including this writer, didn’t think was possible… it reinvents the zombie movie.” – KATIE RIFE, AV Club
A cast of relative unknowns, a brilliantly disguised low budget and an epic, 37-minute opening single take makes Shin’ichiro Ueda’s feature debut a bright, breezy and laugh-out-loud hilarious zombie comedy. A film crew is shooting a zombie horror flick in an abandoned water filtration plant, allegedly used for human experiments by the military. Just as the director browbeats his actors and demands more special effects blood, a real zombie apocalypse erupts, much to his auteur delight. Packed with meta-movie references as mocking as they are loving, this relentless takedown of the Living Dead genre is a total blast.
The Guild Cinema is located at 3450 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: GuildCinema.com