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Life is wonderful for the people in the quiet, island town of Port Gamble....until a zombie virus outbreak! | add synopsis
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Zmd: Zombies of Mass Destruction Confirmed as 5th Film to Die For
(From Dread Central. 29 October 2009, 7:54 PM, PDT)
Not One But Two Zmd(s): Zombies of Mass Destruction Movies Coming to DVD: News, Poster, and Trailer
(From 28 Days Later Analysis. 29 March 2009, 11:55 AM, PDT)
(From Dread Central. 29 October 2009, 7:54 PM, PDT)
Not One But Two Zmd(s): Zombies of Mass Destruction Movies Coming to DVD: News, Poster, and Trailer
(From 28 Days Later Analysis. 29 March 2009, 11:55 AM, PDT)
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Return to the Romero tradition of zombie movies with a message
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Janette Armand | ... | Frida Abbas | |
| Doug Fahl | ... | Tom Hunt | |
| Cooper Hopkins | ... | Lance Murphy | |
| Bill Johns | ... | Reverend Haggis | |
| Russell Hodgkinson | ... | Joe Miller | |
| Ali Hamedani | ... | Ali Abbas | |
| Cornelia Moore | ... | Cheryl Banks | |
| James Mesher | ... | Mayor Burton | |
| Andrew Hyde | ... | Brian Miller | |
| Ryan Barret | ... | Derek Blaine | |
| Victoria Drake | ... | Judy Miller | |
| Linda Jensen | ... | Mrs. Hunt | |
| Sydney Sweeney | ... | Lisa | |
| Jake Gear | ... | Clive | |
| Erik Lagace | ... | Dr. Raimi |
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Rated R for strong bloody zombie violence and gore, language, sexual references and brief drug use.
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USA:92 min
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USA:R (certificate #45712)
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I attended a screening of Kevin Hamedani's "ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction" at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Co-written by Hamedani and Ramon Isao, this horror comedy was shot and set in the city of Port Gamble, near Seattle.
The descriptive title of this film alone would normally be a fair enough plot summary. The fact that this is a zombie movie would usually say most of what one generally needs to know about a horror film. 'Nuff said, you might think. But no, "ZMD" is actually a carefully crafted political statement about the suspicious treatment of Muslims and gays in America post-911. How that odd scenario plays out needs to be seen to be believed. George Romero (the father of the genre) always had hidden messages in his films. Somehow that got lost along the way in the wave of imitators. Hamedani brings it back, and blatantly, too.
Although this is an ultra-low budget film it certainly doesn't look like it. As with all genre films, sound design is absolutely critical and almost serves as another character in the narrative. "ZMD" is efficiently shot and smartly edited. The clever script is often "rolling on the floor laughing" hilarious.
That the residents allowed and even encouraged the filmmakers to use the actual name Port Gamble in the movie is particularly brave and notable -- as Hamedani pointed out in the Q&A following the screening, the original script used a fictional town. But there is no similarity to persons living, dead, or undead.