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Yep, Romero's Heading Back to Zombietown
Filed under: Horror »
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He's almost 70 years old, but genre great George A. Romero still has a few zombie stories up his sleeve. According to Variety, the hard-working horror-maker has already started production on an as-yet-untitled horror film. Oh, and get this: It's a zombie movie! (Like most fans, I really dig films like Martin and The Crazies, but I suppose I dig George's zombie tales the most.) Shooting has already begun in Ontario, and it sure looks like Romero is going the indie route again. No word yet on who'll be distributing this one (once it's finished) but the folks at Cinetic Media will be handling those duties.The flick will be about some folks on "an isolated island off the North American coast who find their relatives rising from the dead to eat their kin. The leaders of the island feud over whether or not to kill their reanimated relatives or preserve them in hopes of finding a cure." So to those who wondered how George could keep the armageddon going after Night, Dawn, Day, Land and Diary, now you know: Island of the Dead. Works for me. Here's hoping Romero introduces a really goofy Gilligan-style character -- and has him devoured in the first ten minutes.
Sundance Review: Ostrov (Island)
Filed under: Drama », Foreign Language », Independent », Sundance », Theatrical Reviews », Religious »
Pavel Longuine's The Island, showing at Sundance in the World Dramatic Competition after closing the Venice Film Festival last fall, is a moving tale about sin, faith and redemption. Anatoly is a young man serving on a Russian barge during World War II, stoking the engines with coal, when the barge is taking captive by German soldiers. The Germans give the terrified young man a choice -- to be shot and die, or to shoot his captain and live. Anatoly shoots his captain, and is left on the barge by the soliders, who blow it up once they are off, leaving him for dead. Anatoly and the remains of the barge wash up on a remote island inhabited by a monastery.
Thirty years later Anatoly -- now Father Anatoly (Russian musician and artist Pyotr Mamonov, of the '80s experimental rock band Zvuki Mu) -- still lives on the monastery's island, keeping its boiler stoked with coal. He shuns living in the monastery proper, choosing instead to live in the boiler, sleeping on a pile of coal. Amongst his fellow monks, Father Anatoly is an anomaly -- a monk who sings loudly atop the bell tower, rarely bathes, refuses to wear fine vestaments, and prays in his own way. The locals view Father Anatoly as something of a holy man, and seek him out for advice and healing.
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