We soon learn that the small cast and crew’s location is an abandoned water filtration plant where strange things allegedly happened in the past…and then some genuine walking dead turn up to terrorize them. Aha-we’re in meta territory, watching a low-budget flick about the making of a low-budget flick. She doesn’t look terribly frightened under the circumstances, and the scene is interrupted by Higurashi (Takayuki Hamatsu)-a director furious that Chinatsu (Yuzuki Akiyama) can’t get her performance right. These are, as the title indicates, one long, unbroken take that starts with a woman being attacked by a cheaply made-up ghoul.
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So you won’t read much about the content of its story and characters here-at least beyond those seen in its first 37 minutes.
and Canada on Tuesday (see details here), ONE CUT OF THE DEAD benefits enormously from knowing as little about it as possible before sitting down to watch it. Opening today at New York City’s IFC Center and Los Angeles’ Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, with special one-night screenings across the U.S. It is not only one of the most entertaining zombie films ever made, it’s among the most humorously observant movies about movies in cinema history. On the other hand, the fact that the conventions of low-budget ghoul cinema are now so familiar works in ONE CUT’s favor, providing an identifiable base from which to spin off an endlessly clever, gaspingly funny, beautifully constructed and executed mix of genre spoof and behind-the-scenes satire. It’s not quite right to say that ONE CUT OF THE DEAD reinvents the zombie genre in one sense, the undead are incidental to the movie’s true pleasures. Starring Takayuki Hamatsu, Mao and Harumi Shuhama
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