Trailer for the Remake of the Amazingly Fun Japanese Zombie Film ONE CUT OF THE DEAD

First of all, if you haven’t watched the 2017 Japanese zombie comedy movie One Cut of the Dead/Kamera o Tomeru na! (Don’t Stop the Camera!) from director Shin’ichirô Ueda’, you need to watch it because it is easily one of the better zombie films that have been made.

Well, One Cut of the Dead has been remade by French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist), it’s titled Final Cut, and it looks like it stays pretty close to what the original movie was.

The story centers on “a director (Romain Duris, L’Auberge Espagnole) making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies.” Hazanavicius “milks the film’s hilarious and meta-to-the-max premise for all it’s worth, while also crafting a sly love letter to the art of filmmaking. What’s on screen unfolds in typical cheesy B-movie fashion, while the off-screen hijinks offer a celebration of the unpredictable and collaborative nature of film sets. Featuring a hysterically unhinged turn by Berenice Bejo (The Artist) and serving up blood-soaked high farce par excellence, Final Cut revels in its affectionate embrace of goofy genre fun.”

The synopsis for the Japanese version of the film reads: “A small low budget film crew is shooting a zombie horror flick in an abandoned water filtration plant, allegedly once used for human experiments by the Japanese military. Just as the director browbeats his actors and demands more special effects blood, a real zombie apocalypse erupts, much to his auteur delight. Packed with meta-movie references as mocking as they are loving, this relentless takedown of the Living Dead genre is a total blast.”

The remake has actually been met with decent reviews, but you can just watch the original film right now on Shudder, which is sure to be the better movie. The remake will be released on July 14th.?