The Vanguard (2008)

Director:

Matthew Hope

Writer:

Matthew Hope (writer)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Stabbed To Death | Raincoat | Antidote | Shot In The Back | Throwing A Spear

Cast

Karen Admiraal	...	Linda
Jack Bailey	...	Lead Biosyn
Ray Bullock Jr.	...	Max
Emma Choy	...	Rachael
Terry Cole	...	Tracker #4
Che Conroy	...	Zombie
Rob Cooper	...	Biosyn #2
Bahi Ghubril	...	Hareem Jabbar
Shiv Grewal	...	Tracker / Jamal
Christopher Hatherall	...	Biosyn
Martin Hobbs	...	Tracker #3
Farhan Khan	...	Tracker #2
Julian Newman Turner	...	Savage
Steve Weston	...	Zac
Simon Whyman	...	Biosyn #4
Leigh Stevenson	...	Zombie / Biosyn (uncredited)

Directed by
Matthew Hope

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Matthew Hope		writer

Produced by
Robert Henry Craft	....	producer
Steve Dann	....	producer
Anthony Delany	....	co-producer
John Hope	....	executive producer
Matthew Hope	....	producer
Harry F. Rushton	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Mark Delany

Cinematography by
David Byrne

Film Editing by
Simon Adams
Larry Trybec

Art Direction by
John Luke Roy

Costume Design by
Claire French

Makeup Department
Laura Barnes	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Kevin Phelan	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Simon .J. Aguirre	....	second assistant director (daily) (as Simon Aguirre)
Jake Clifford	....	second assistant director (daily)
Liam Lock	....	third assistant director
Paul Murphy	....	first assistant director
Steve Murphy	....	first assistant director

Sound Department
Lee Grainge	....	sound designer
Zane Hayward	....	sound editor
Richard Kondal	....	foley editor
Jules MacDonald	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gavin Marshall	....	boom operator
Matthew Morreale	....	boom operator
Julian Willson	....	sound mixer

Special Effects by
Phil Anderson	....	special effects makeup
Robbie Drake	....	special effects makeup

Visual Effects by
Ally Burnett	....	digital effects artist
Sarah Cloutier	....	visual effects producer
Tony Lawrence	....	digital effects artist

Stunts
Rob Cooper	....	stunt performer
Simon Whyman	....	stunt performer

Camera and Electrical Department
David Byrne	....	camera operator
Miriam Hermanns	....	clapper loader
Yuri Kawana	....	Steadicam operator
David Lee	....	focus puller: dailies
Julian Newman Turner	....	stills photographer
Jimmy Ward	....	clapper loader

Editorial Department
Kerri Aungle	....	negative cutter
Jonathan Yau	....	telecine colourist

Music Department
Mark Maclaine	....	music mixer
Mark Maclaine	....	music producer

Other crew
Jack Bailey	....	choreographer: biosyn
David Bispham	....	floor runner
Ami Carter	....	crowd coordinator
Farhan Khan	....	assistant to producer
Ben Galster	....	carmera trainee (uncredited)

Thanks
Kevin Gates	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Propaganda Pictures

Distributors

• Propaganda Pictures (2008) (worldwide) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Albania) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Bulgaria) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Croatia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Hungary) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Kosovo) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Republic of Macedonia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Montenegro) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Romania) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Serbia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Slovakia) (all media)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Slovenia) (all media)
• Accent Film Entertainment (2009) (Australia) (DVD)
• Blue Sky Media (2008) (Czech Republic) (all media)
• Mondo Home Entertainment (2009) (Italy) (DVD)
• Pan Vision Oy (2009) (Finland) (DVD)
• T2 Entertainment (2011) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Videorama (2008) (Greece) (all media)

Other Companies

• UK Computamatch  negative cutting

Also Known As:

Runtime:

UK:89 min

Country:

UK

Language:

Arabic | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Finland:K-18 | Australia:MA (2009) | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/16

Company:

Propaganda Pictures

changes from gore into war

So much pro's and much more contra's. I can understand why, it starts nicely with some kind of zombies attacking a person. It is really gory in some ways and the use of colors in post production via color grading made it a bit arty. It reminded me a bit of Walhalla Rising. There is even not that much spoken words but then the movie suddenly turns into a battle flick. It is somewhere between Resident Evil and I Am Legend and so much more so yes, we have seen it all before but the problem I had is that it as I said suddenly changed from gory zombie fights into normal fights. And the last part takes too much i this flick so it's more science fiction than horror. It do has his moments but somehow it couldn't really convince me.