Escaping the Dead Lives! New Trailer and Cast Member; Team Reunites for Harvest Short
Debi Moore
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It was a year ago when the trailer arrived for Danish zombie apocalypse thriller Escaping the Dead, but since then things have been quiet. That changes today as a new trailer has been released, and it features a cameo by none other than the face of Troma, indie guru Lloyd Kaufman.
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 the big 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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Directed by Martin Sonntag and Bastian Brinch Pedersen, the film stars Pedersen (who is also the producer) as David and Rama Øzel as Ahmir along with Dorte Rømer (Breaking the Waves) and Kim Sønderholm (Cannibal Fog, Run, House of Many Sorrows) playing Lars the policeman. Recently Lone Fleming, legendary Danish horror actress from the Blind Dead series, joined the cast to play David’s mother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfhQ0cndiPQ
And the parties involved aren’t resting on their laurels. Since meeting on Escaping the Dead in late 2013, Sonntag and Brinch Pedersen have teamed up with Sønderholm to do the horror short Harvest (Danish title Høsten). That film is now finished and will be available to the world via film festivals and the like in the near future.
Along with Sønderholm, it stars Siff Andersson, Slavko Labovic, and Julie Kunz with an introduction by Lloyd Kaufman.
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