American Zombie (2007)

Pic documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.

Director:

Grace Lee

Writers:

Grace Lee, Rebecca Sonnenshine

Stars:

Austin Basis, Jane Edith Wilson, Al Vicente

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Austin Basis	...	Ivan
Jane Edith Wilson	...	Lisa
Al Vicente	...	Joel
Suzy Nakamura	...	Judy
John Solomon	...	Himself
Grace Lee	...	Herself
Andrew Amondson	...	Himself
Amy Higgins	...	Dr. Gloria Reynolds (as Amy D. Higgins)
Kevin Michael Walsh	...	Kennedy
Jose Solomon	...	Glen
Paul Eiding	...	Hank Baker
Philip Newby	...	Rodrigo Weiss
Finneus Egan	...	Stag
Roger Ainslie	...	Jim Miller
Ossie Mair	...	Stan Boyd

Storyline

Pic documents the daily lives of a small community of the living deceased who make their home in Los Angeles.

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Plot Keywords:

mockumentary | zombie

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA South Korea

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 March 2008 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Lee Lee Films, iHQ

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 90 min (European Film Market)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Features Night of the Living Dead (1968)

User Reviews

Excellent Social Metaphor

I just signed up to IMDb simply to express my delight in how refreshing this film was. It is an exploration of how groups are marginalised by society, and labelled with negative connotations, causing not only fringe group extremists but self fulfilling prophecies.

John represents the world view of the Zombie group, and as the film progress you can see how this world view is pushing the zombies away from integration, into the fringe of society and into the arms of angry primarily labelled and conforming leaders who's angry voices are the only ones to be heard at such an extremes of social exclusion.

People have said that the movement of the Zombies at the end, into the expected "typical" behaviour of that group ruins the film, and any sympathy for them dies with it. It in fact shows how having pre-conditioned ideas of how a people behave actually creates a self fulfilling prophecy.

Excellent film. Bravo.