Comments on: Life Room (2009)

By: Huntress

Huntress — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:28:41 +0000

Aaaaargh! I guess I should also clarify that I’m not talking about the “Masters of Horror” episode of the same name. This is a completely unrelated feature-length film.

By: Huntress

Huntress — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:25:48 +0000

Sorry, that was “Dance of THE Dead”.

By: Huntress

Huntress — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:22:26 +0000

“It just occured to me that it might be interesting to try the opposite and do a zombie movie in the “Howard Hawks vein” where teamwork turns out to be the best way to deal with problems.”

Look no further than “Dance of Dead”. It has many examples of teamwork saving someone’s butt, and one fight is pretty much explicitly built on the idea.

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:11:47 +0000

Yes, because that’s just what the world needs: Masada with zombies.

By: ProfessorKettlewell

ProfessorKettlewell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:12:10 +0000

It sounds like a neat premise. Apart from the obvious eschatology implications of the setting, am I the only person who thought ‘Masada’?

If I had any writing chops at all, I might have a go at that ;)

By: Eric Ray

Eric Ray — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:41:18 +0000

All locations were in Phoenix and Scottsdale. You might recognize a couple of locations, but most shooting was indoors. We posted info online about needing extras and got an amazing response of people that all wanted to be zombies. Young and old, tall and short, thin and rotund. Our heroes may have been limited to a single age group and socioeconomic class, but the zombies were a motley bunch to be sure.

No comment on church vs. dungeon.

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:13:41 +0000

A Futurama reference? Where? And why was I not informed?

By: Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:57:16 +0000

A) A Futurama reference! Right on!

B) “..they make it through the electric gates outside the church and into the “life room,” where the youth group meets; the doors to the outside are reinforced, it can be secured from the rest of the building, and the windows are supposedly too narrow for anyone from outside to get through…” Is this a church or a dungeon?

C) Hey, I’m in the Grand Canyon State! Whereabouts was this shot?

By: Nathan Shumate

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:32:16 +0000

Oh, I’d believe it. Zombies don’t do moderation well. (And I’m glad you took the review well. That last paragraph was written because you wouldn’t believe how violently defensive some directors get…)

By: Eric Ray

Eric Ray — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:04:25 +0000

(you wouldn’t BELIEVE how much of the budget went to feeding the zombies)

Sorry about that, proofreading helps understanding.