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It is rare for me to get news straight off the bat but I have some pretty cool information on a brand new British zombie flick that is hoping to take Cannes by storm next year. RESURRECTION is a low budget film from the minds of First time Feature directors Jake Hawkins and Andy Phelps and was filmed for the space of 4 weeks in Hampshire England and has some cool zombie action set in a school which Jake Hawkins told us was a little eerie during the night:
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"We were very fortunate to have worked with a great cast and crew. There were always happy faces on set a midst the gore and the undead, which is always nice when you are sat around in the cold waiting for a break in the rain in order to get some shots in before the heavens open once more! Empty schools are eerie enough, but at night under moonlight they are absolutely frightening. On our first week of shooting we had our zombie horde scene which comprised of over 45 zombie extras tearing around a school in full gore in the dead of night - a real sight to behold. "

Jake and his team now have 6 months to get the film ready for Cannes, and who knows RESURRECTION could even be one of the films picked for Film4 FrightFest next year when the festival goes film hunting at Cannes.
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Here is a taste of the plot for the film:

Resurrection takes place 15 months after the outbreak where Zombies have become a decayed toothless pest. We follow an ensemble cast - a rag tag bunch of civilians and soldiers transporting a high risk prisoner across the badlands as they move from a small stockade to the UK's largest central populous Empyrean.  When the party leader loses a leg in an unfortunate accident along the way the group are forced to seek refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter the first ripe zombie that they’ve seen in months; less than 24 hours since infection, the zombie is fast, powerful and absolutely terrifying. Convinced that there must be other survivors in the building, a faction splits away from the group to investigate, and discovers a gathering of zombies involved in a bizarre resurrection ceremony. A mysterious serene zombie lays his hands upon one of the horde, who violently returns to life. Petrified, the man struggles to escape but is immediately re-devoured; a continual recycling of the horde that keeps them fresh and extraordinarily dangerous. As the party fight to understand the mysteries of the school, they are confronted with their first real test of survival since the beginning of the outbreak. They rescue another survivor, a psychotic denizen whose only memories are of being brutally devoured a hundred times over, and attempt to kidnap the mysterious zombie from the midst of his horrifying congregation. Is he the answer to the zombie plague? How much faith can you have in something that science can’t explain? As tensions build among the group the characters wrestle with issues of belief, guilt and self-interest. With the party fractured, a deadly balancing act develops between survival and heroism, in an increasingly splatter-ridden game of cat-and-mouse through to a gore-tastic climax
 


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