Cuba’s formerly state-subsidized film industry has long been known for art films and high brow entertainment, but in recent years as the economy fell on harder times, the state has cut back on its support, and the industry has crumbled.

In response, at least one enterprising and very mercenary young Cuban filmmaker has an idea on how to achieve international commercial success: bash the daylights out of Zombies on-screen in one of those so-called ‘horror-comedies’, like ‘Zombieland’ or or course, ‘Shaun of the Dead’.

For more details and a conversation with the director of, get this, ‘Juan of the Dead’, check out this BBC report:

Tags: Movies

This entry was posted by John Sears on Monday, January 17th, 2011 at 10:40 pm and is filed under Zombie Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.