Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)

A gang of bank robbers fight their way out of a zombie-infested London.

Director:

Matthias Hoene

Writers:

Matthias Hoene (original idea), James Moran (screenplay)

Stars:

Rasmus Hardiker, Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Rasmus Hardiker	...	Terry
Harry Treadaway	...	Andy
Michelle Ryan	...	Katy
Ashley Thomas	...	Mental Mickey
Jack Doolan	...	Davey Tuppence
Georgia King	...	Emma
Tony Gardner	...	Clive
Alan Ford	...	Ray
Honor Blackman	...	Peggy
Tony Selby	...	Darryl
Georgina Hale	...	Doreen
Dudley Sutton	...	Eric
Richard Briers	...	Hamish
Natalie Walter	...	Bank Manager
Phil Cornwell	...	Grainger

Storyline

This British movie is about a group of inept criminals who decide to rob a bank so they can save their grandfather's retirement home from being demolished by developers. Meanwhile on another building site some workers dig up an old graveyard and they get bitten by the "undead" which sets off a chain reaction. Then the bank robbers are cornered by the police while in the process of the robbery, but when they exit they find that they are all dead as a result of the horde of zombies. They have to get to the retirement home before the zombies do!

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Plot Keywords:

bank robber | zombie apocalypse | zombie | zombie comedy | zombie attack | 

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Taglines:

The undead are brown bread

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Dudley Sutton ad-libbed the Christopher Lee line.

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Goofs

When Ray (Alan Ford) is telling his story of fighting the Nazi's, he bashes in, starts shooting. But he's armed with a Lee-Enfield, the standard British infantry rifle of WW2. One has to run the bolt to fire, something he never does, just firing continuously.

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Quotes

Andy: Piss off, you muppets!

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Crazy Credits

Mark Birmingham plays "Some Poor Bastard."

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Another Top 10 Zombie Kills (2014)

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Soundtracks

Monster
Written by Robin Hawkins, James Frost, Alex Pennie and Iwan Griffiths
Performed by The Automatic
Master recording courtesy of B-Unique Records
Published by EMI Music Publishing

User Reviews

Respect the elderly Cockney Rebels!

I've grown quite allergic to the terms zombie-comedy, and especially to the allegedly cool slang name "zomedy", because we horror fanatics are literally overloaded with movies about the Living Dead that are supposed to be horrific and hilarious at the same time. In reality, however, the vast majority of them are just downright dull, uninspired and irritating. Ever since the British cult hit "Shaun of the Dead", it seems like every (young?) aspiring film director assumes that he/she can make a horror comedy even though these two remain the hardest genres to put into a blender together. Therefore I was rather skeptical when I went to see "Cockneys vs. Zombies" at a local horror festival here in Belgium. The idea sounded good, the trailer looked mighty fine and the cast features a handful of names that even make the most mediocre movie tolerable (Alan Ford from "Snatch" and Honor "Pussy Galore" Blackman) but still … it remained a zomedy! It took me more or less five minutes to put all my skepticism aside, though, because the movie starts out amazingly and I immediately got sucked in. The intro sequence and particularly the awesomely animated opening credits, guided by the magnificent song "What's that coming over the hill is it a monster?" by The Automatic, set the basis for an exhilarating, fast-paced and blood-spurting horror adventure. Admittedly the script features many clichés, stereotypes and redundant melodramatic moments, but overall seen is director Matthias Hoene's approach fresh and inventive. In Cockney country, the heart of working class East London, construction workers are building a gigantic apartment complex for which several traditional monuments have to be demolished, including the old folk's home of Granddad Ray Maguire and his friends. His offspring plans to rob a bank so that he doesn't have to move away from the area, but something else also interferes with the construction works… a zombie invasion! When the workers stumble upon ancient catacombs underneath the city, the region is quickly overrun by thousand of zombies. The bank robbers battle their way back to the retirement home as fast as they can, but the old timer prove themselves still tough enough to stand up against the undead. "Cockneys vs. Zombies" (don't you just love it when the title is, in fact, the entire plot?) is a straightforward and largely unpretentious zombie romp that delivers what you expect (or hope for). There are various flaws, like for example the screenplay refuses to sacrifice any real pivot characters and overdoes the melodrama a bit near the climax, but these are widely compensated through ingenious little plot aspects and the excessive gore effects. Certain sequences already qualify as instant classic in my book. For example, you haven't seen a zombie chase until you witness the race between a pensioner with a walking frame and a traditionally slow-sauntering rotting corpse. Or, how to kill a zombie with a metal plate in his head? And then for the obvious biggest trump of the film I'd like to refer to the title. The genuine Cockney characters and the delicious rhyming slang dialogs are the elements that truly distinguish the film from the others. Alan Ford must be the coolest Cockney since Sid Vicious and, as expected, he steals the show in every sequence he's in.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Japan]

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 August 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Cockneys vs Zombies

Filming Locations:

Three Mills Studios, Three Mill Lane, Bow, London, England, UK

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$107,348

Company Credits

Production Co:

Kintop, Limelight, Molinare

Technical Specs

Runtime:

88 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1