Head into the Undead Zone with Mary Doe

Steve Barton |

Feb 6, 2011

A new indie zombie project entitled Mary Doe, the first entry in a planned trilogy, is officially on the horizon from filmmaker Nick Nicolaou, and the project has piqued our interest due to its unique approach of using the Left 4 Dead video game engine to create a zombie-filled landscape in which to tell its tale.

“We have been developing the project for 2 years now and setting up a solid platform to move from,” Nicolaou tells us. “The development process has taken a long time, but we have not stopped the creative momentum that we established a while back. The scope and visual content of our project has gotten more ambitious. My company, Make-up Effects Group, has been a force behind all my projects, and we have brought together an amazing array of production art and design, make-up effects, miniature models and animatronic creatures that you would never find in an independent film of our budget level.”

Sound interesting? You bet it does. Check out the plot crunch, some behind-the-scenes goodies, and the early artwork below. For more visit the official Mary Doe website and check out Mary Doe on Facebook.

Synopsis
A twelve-day trek across the desert and the insignificant form that is Mary Doe has exhausted all life within her. Rescued from death’s door, she finds herself abandoned with five men in a decommissioned government facility used for testing biological weapons.

Lost with no memory of who she is and no placement in this world, she finds no reason to want to win her freedom – to journey BACK FROM THE DEAD…

Isolation breeds paranoia – no one can hide from their demons forever. As Mary unravels her past, the world she has fallen into crumbles down around her. The MUTANTS have found their way into the bunker. She has to gather her strength and find a reason to want to live – to want to get out of this HOLE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.

Mary Doe is a horror/thriller in the vein of films such as Alien, The Thing, Dawn of the Dead and Terminator.

Murder, Deception, Justice… A classic noir femme fatale story set in the world of the BANISHED and the UNDEAD!