Die and Let Live (2006)

When Benny tries to impress his crush Stephanie by throwing a party (with the help of his friend Smalls), he finds himself in quite a dilemma: a nearby medical testing facility has had an ... See full summary »

Director:

Justin Channell

Writers:

Justin Channell, Zane Crosby

Stars:

Josh Lively, Zane Crosby, Sarah Bauer

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Josh Lively	...	Benny Rodriguez (as Joshua Lively)
Zane Crosby	...	Scotty Smalls / Paul
Sarah Bauer	...	Stephanie
Ashley Goddard	...	Liz
Jonas Dixon	...	Andrew Kaegan
Jordan Hess	...	Squints
Zack Boyce	...	Todd Hamilton
Henrique Couto	...	Adam
Matt Coffmann	...	Greg
Heather Lucas	...	Julie
Trent Haaga	...	Emmanuel Frum
Lloyd Kaufman	...	Floyd Faukman
Houston McIntyre	...	Samuel
Justin Channell	...	Todd / Gargamel
Michael Stewart	...	Open Mic Musician

Storyline

When Benny tries to impress his crush Stephanie by throwing a party (with the help of his friend Smalls), he finds himself in quite a dilemma: a nearby medical testing facility has had an outbreak of test subjects for an experimental virus that revives the dead. When the infected undead show up to the party, it's up to Benny and Smalls to try to save the day.

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Plot Keywords:

party | crush | zombie | antonyms in title | tromaesque | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror | Romance

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

1 December 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Zombi 9

Filming Locations:

Fairmont, West Virginia, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Heretic Films (II), IWC Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

75 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Apart from playing Scotty Smalls, Zane Crosby also appears as three different zombies, a party-goer who walks around wearing a beach towel as a cape and donned a wig and mustache to play the character Paul under the pseudonym Skip McGirvin.

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Crazy Credits

At the very end of the credits, the homemade cage at the television station collapses, freeing zombie Adam (Henrique Couto). He looks around suspiciously, then walks out of the cage whistling.

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Connections

References The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

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Soundtracks

Part V: The Droughts of Summer and Soul
Performed by Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea

User Reviews

A Great Piece of Entertainment

This is a movie that will just make you enjoy watching it. It won't make you think too hard and it won't turn the horror world on it's ear, but it will make you laugh. If you are like me you will laugh a lot in this film. A basic synopsis without giving anything away is that there is a zombie outbreak and a pair of slackers throwing a party are caught in the middle of it. Now you would think the most important thing would be to find a way to survive but no... they have to get the pizzas from Bambino's because they are the best pizzas in the entire town's history. Forget the fact that it is the apocalypse just get the pizzas and everything will be okay. The film is shot in typical guerrilla fashion with just a couple locations and a lot of friends willing to be torn up and become zombies. They even got Henry Couto and Debbie Rochon to do cameos (Debbie is just a voice over but still it is Debbie). Like all independent horror films you have to look past the films flaws due to lacking anything looking like a budget to spend on cinematography, actors, and special effects and just enjoy the story. So if you want to just turn off the brain for a couple of hours and enjoy a fun film then this is the film for you.