8 Inspirations: “Onslaught of The Dead”

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  1. Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things – I saw this as a kid and I loved the retro look of the 70’s fashion and hair with the grain and vintage interior. The graveyard sequence is my all-time favorite Zombies rising from the grave scene.
  2. Day of The Dead’s Cave Scene for it’s Darkness – When you can’t see, it’s scary. In. “Day of the Dead” there’s a cave scene where the good guys go fighting zombies. It’s not a long scene at all, but I wish it was. Since it’s impossible to go back in time and tell Mr. Romero to make that longer or better yet make it the whole movie, I’ll make my movie like that.
  3. One Cut of The Dead – I was completely gung-ho for the campy and gory beginning. The second of half the film makes it go from a good old fashioned B-Zombie flick, to genius.
  4. John Waters – No Budget One Man with a Camera Style is exactly what I’m doing. From a filmmaker’s POV shooting with a minimal crew is ideal, but for some reason talent are the opposite. I’ve had some back out of a project when they learn there’s not make-up person.
  5. Hershel Gordon Lewis – Fun and Style over Logic and Realism. I love the gore of his films, but the pacing kills it. And don’t get me wrong I love boring films, but old films that are boring don’t know they are boring. New films are at least self-aware people will stop watching if it’s boring.
  6. Zombie Video Games – Pacing – Speaking of pacing. When I first heard zombie video games were being adapted to film I imagined and I guess hoped, they’d be just like the games, but live-action. When I saw “Resident Evil” for the first time I liked it, but it was just like a normal action movie. It didn’t feel like a video game.
  7. Bela Tarr – Long Shots – I’ve been a fan of his since 2007 when I watched “Werckmeister Harmonies” from Old Bank DVD in DTLA. All of his shots are one long take. For example, “Satanago” is 6 hours long, but it has only 35 shots. e.g. There’s a girl walking with a dead cat for four minutes non-stop.
  8. Roy Andersson – Anti-Close-ups and Wide Shots – Obviously, I do it, but I don’t like doing the close-up cuts back and forth edits. It’s necessary sometimes, but I don’t make it my goto for every scene with dialogue. I prefer wide shots that feature everything or everyone and no close-ups at all like Roy Andersson films.

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