Just how bad can a bad zombie flick get? Start with an all-in-one-take plan — “One little slip and it’s ruined” — add cheeseball makeup and then finish it off with “a weird vibe on this shoot.” More on that last part below.
Here is the trailer for Final Cut, Oscar-winning The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius’ French-language remake of Shin’ichirô Ueda’s 2017 cult hit One Cut of the Dead. Watch the subtitled clip above.
The horror comedy follows a director (Romain Duris) making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie “thriller” in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies. What’s onscreen unfolds in typical cheesy B-movie fashion, while the offscreen high jinks offer a celebration of the unpredictable and collaborative nature of film sets.
In one scene from the trailer, the filmmakers watch as a zombie attacks an actor during filming. “Was that in the script?” the director asks. An well-placed ax to the noggin later, the reply is, “Not verbatim.”
The Artist Oscar nominee Berenice Bejo also stars along with Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz and Finnegan Oldfield.
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Hazanavicius wrote and helmed Final Cut (fka Comme Z), which opened the Cannes Film Festival last year after missing its Sundance world premiere with that fest went virtual amid the Omicron surge. The pic also had been set to open the Park City shindig. Kino Lorber acquired U.S. rights early this year and opens the pic July 14 in limited release.
