‘Play Dead’ Gets Zombie Apocalypse in Your Animal Movie
I really need to start a list of all the genres that haven’t been crossed with the Zombie Apocalypse meme yet and check them off as new projects are announced. It’d be like playing Bingo, only even more grim and depressing:
A zombie apocalypse unites a ragtag pack of dogs in the ruined streets of Miami. Immune to the epidemic, they must stick together to survive in the midst of ferocious undead and human survivors. Sit. Stay. Play dead…
We are a group of local filmmakers in Miami commissioned by the Borscht Film Festival (www.Borscht.info) to write and shoot a short film that tells a unique Miami story. We’ve always been influenced by the roller coaster thrills of a good horror movie and the classic storytelling themes repeated in some of our favorite Disney films. We finally decided to blend those two concepts together, and what came out of it is our most ambitious project to date: Play Dead.
Zombies roam the streets in the days and nights following a horrific new virus which is wreaking havoc in Miami. Pitched gun battles and burning streets provide a backdrop for a ragtag band of dogs who are determined to survive.
From what the ZRC’s good friend Tom has been telling us over the years, Miami’s halfway to Post-Apocalyptic without any mysterious Zombie virus, so I’m not sure why they needed to add the Differently Animated as villains.
Except, obviously, to try and cash in.
If you’re really eager to see the worst attributes of Anti-Zombie violence combined with syrupy and implausible animals-as-characters action, then you finally have a place to park your money at the ‘Play Dead’ Kickstarter page.
It’s as if the Zack Snyder ‘Dawn of the Dead’ got mashed up with ‘Homeward Bound’. Seeing this for the ZRC just might mean the end of me.
I’ve embedded the trailer below to share the pain with others.
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