Undeadable
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| Undeadable - Dead...but not buried | |
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 Teaser poster of Undeadable |
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| Directed by | Markus Haage |
| Produced by | Markus Haage |
| Written by | Markus Haage |
| Starring | Jörn Höpfner Fabian Gruba Oliver Meier Nils Krawolitzki Jan Prill Markus Haage Eike utecht |
| Music by | Succubitch |
| Cinematography | Markus Haage |
| Editing by | Markus Haage |
| Running time | 85 min. |
| Language | German |
| Budget | € 8000 (estimated) |
Undeadable - Dead...but not buried is a 2007 independent film, directed and written by Markus Haage, set in a ficitonal future after a huge zombie outbreak. The whole movie was produced without any professional support over a period of almost three years.
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[edit] Plot
The movie is set in a world where society is used to live with a constant zombie threat. That means that everyone who dies will automatically become a zombie. Grandpa, grandma, mother, father, sister, brother...everyone. So there are retirement homes where the nurses are armed with shotguns. There are special areas made for the undead called Zom-Biotops, originally created to explore zombie behavior for scientific reasons and of course the media is constantly reporting about the zombie phenomenon and also changed their program. There is a basketball association called ZOM-B-A or there are shows to teach kids how to handle a situation when a zombie is attacking them or propaganda movies made by the government. The main part of the film deals with a bunch of independent zombie hunters called T.A.N.K. (TEAM AGAINST NECROMANTIC KRISIS) who have to hunt and kill a certain amount of zombies within 24 hours. If they can´t achieve that goal they wont be promoted to civil servants and will be automatically unemployed because the government who is using the zombie threat for its own repressive agenda wants to take control over all independent zombie hunter teams and wants to build up a own totally government controlled unit. But the zombie threat does not really exist anymore because everyone who dies gets automatically his head chopped. A service provided by undertakers by the way. And so the TANK-Team decides to enter the so called Zom-Biotope. A wasted and left area created to watch and study zombie behavior years ago. There they are trying to get enough kills...but through their own foolish behavior they are just getting deeper into the trouble...
[edit] Screenings
A raw cut of the film was screened at the Helmstedter Filmfestival on March 3rd, 2007.
[edit] Main cast
- Jörn Höpfner - Heckler
- Fabian Gruba - Schneider
- Oliver Meier - Heiko
- Jan Prill - Koch
- Nils Krawolitzki - Herr AK 47
- Torben Utecht - Zombie
- Martin Haim - Zombie
- Markus Haage - Luger
[edit] Filming locations
Locations for the film include:
- Wendessen (Germany)
- Schöningen (Germany)
- Büddenstedt (Germany)
[edit] Other production notes
- The whole movie was financed by its director Markus Haage who had to sell a huge part of his film collection to get the money.
- The characters of AK-47 and Heiko had to be replaced with new actors for two times.
- The film took almost three years to finish. The first draft was written in May 2004.
- The only reason why the budget is only about 8,000 Euro is that almost every prop is homemade by the director and that the money was only invested in things that were really necessary.
