Escaping the Dead Heads to the Film Fest Circuit; New Trailer and More!
Debi Moore
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Escaping the Dead has been our radar for a few years now, having been inspired by that face-eating incident in Florida back in 2012. Finally it’s heading out on the festival circuit, with its first screenings in late August at Action on Film International Film Festival in Las Vegas; and to celebrate, the official trailer is here!
From the Press Release:
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark… There really is, and it’s been under way for quite a while.
Escaping the Dead was written, produced, and directed by Martin Sonntag and Bastian Brinch Pedersen. It stars Bastian Brinch Pedersen as David, Lloyd Kaufman, Lone Fleming, Kim Sønderholm, Heine Sørensen, Sune Rolf Jensen, Sead Sainoski, Dorte Rømer, and over 150 zombie actors.
Escaping the Dead was inspired by a series of articles about the deathdrug “Krokodil” that was published during the same period of time when Ronald Poppo had his face eaten by a naked man hooked on bath salts in Miami. It is the perfect zombie plot: a deathdrug that turns people into zombies.
The film has its starting point in a typical day for the lead character, David. David is the local marijuana pusher, but he is the kind of dealer that smokes more than he sells. In the meantime the country has been hit by a new deathdrug, and when David and his partner in crime Ahmir are offered some exceptionally cheap cocaine, they see it as an opportunity to earn big money at a large techno concert the following Friday.
But the cocaine turns out to have a terrible side effect that creates a giant zombie outbreak that spreads across Copenhagen. In the film we follow David and his bloody fight out of the city.
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