New Zealand-based gross sales outfit Black Mandala has acquired rights to the award-winning horror-comedy “Vampire Zombies…From Space!” forward of the Cannes Film Market.
The black-and-white style mashup, directed by Mike Stasko, has been a competition favourite, amassing over 20 awards throughout its spectacular competition run, together with a number of viewers selection awards and greatest characteristic honors.
Set in 1957, the movie follows a motley crew — consisting of a grizzled detective, a skeptical rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a decided younger girl — as they band collectively to cease Dracula‘s cosmic plan to show the small city of Marlow into his private military of vampire zombies.
“From the depths of house, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan but,” reads the synopsis. “A full-blown zombie outbreak hits, prompting the arrival of the dramatic (and barely unhinged) Colonel Talbit and his troops.”
The 97-minute horror-comedy-sci-fi hybrid options notable style appearances from Lloyd Kaufman (Troma Leisure founder), Judith O’Dea (“Night time of the Residing Lifeless”), and David Liebe Hart (“Tim and Eric Superior Present, Nice Job!”). The principle solid contains Jessica Antovski, Rashaun Baldeo, Andrew Bee, Oliver Georgiou, Craig Gloster, and Simon Reynolds.
Stasko, who additionally co-wrote the screenplay with Jakob Skrzypa and Alex Forman, cited classics like “The Blob,” “Plan 9 from Outer House,” and “Forbidden Planet” as inspirations, evaluating the movie’s comedic method to Mel Brooks’ “Younger Frankenstein.”
“With ‘Vampire Zombies…From House!’ my objective was to create a hilarious satire of Fifties drive-in horror movies,” Stasko stated in his director’s notes. “To do that successfully, it must play the half and look the half first, after which flip every scene on its head.”
The movie’s competition accolades embrace Viewers Selection at Ravenna Nightmare Movie Pageant, Finest Function at Buried Alive Movie Pageant (the place it additionally received Finest Director and Finest Manufacturing Design), Finest Function at South African Horrorfest, Finest Sci-Fi Function at New York Metropolis Horror Movie Pageant, and Finest Canadian Function at Victoria Movie Pageant.
Shot totally in Windsor/Essex, Ontario, the manufacturing utilized areas just like the Canadian Transportation Museum & Heritage Village, Essex United Church, and Historic Essex Railway Station to attain its Fifties aesthetic. The movie options in depth sensible results led by particular results artists Mitch Branget and Sebastien Gaspar-Woods.
“Vampire Zombies…From House!” was produced by Theodore Bezaire, Gerry Lattmann, and Stasko, with cinematography by Ken Amlin and music by Ian McGregor Smith.
Black Mandala’s present slate contains a number of different horror and thriller titles aimed toward world style audiences, together with interval slasher thriller “No One Will Hear Your Scream,” “Play Lifeless,” starring Paula Brasca in a claustrophobic nightmare the place she should lie immobile amongst corpses whereas mysterious rituals unfold above her; erotic thriller “Traumnovelle”; supernatural horror “Containment” that places a contemporary spin on possession tropes; and “Lake Jesup,” the place redemption meets reptilian terror.
