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Hell is Full
USA 2010
produced by Steve Hudgins, P.J. Woodside for Big Biting Pig Productions
directed by Steve Hudgins
starring Steve Hudgins, P.J. Woodside, Grey Hurt, Randy Hardesty, Rusty James, Cindy Maples, Elaine Ruff, Steve Schwetman, Michael Coon, Sidney Shripka, Gary Hunt, Marty D. Cook, Kristine Renee Farley, Katherine Kelley, Tom Groves, Savannah Pennington, Jon Isaac Lutz, Justin Veazey, S.K. Stokes, Carol Niswonger, Terri Coon, Neil Vowels, Kenneth R. Root, Leif Erickson Rigney, Megan Jones, Pat Ballard, McKenna Rigney, Pete Law, Savanna Storm, Syd Tate, Donna Hollander, Marsha Cash, Mark Cotton, Jessica Dockrey, Bryan Wirthlin, Julia Griffith, Chris Cook, Presley Benson, Ethan Dunbar, Jude Roy, Eric Stephens, Clint Coon, Danielle Weems-Brown, Tony Brown, Robin Crowley, Will Cox, J.T. Oglesby, Kathy Son, Felicia Stewart, Karen Klay Orange, Katie Vowels, Kellie Root, Eric M. Underwood, Frank DeFini
written by Steve Hudgins, music by Steve Hudgins, P.J. Woodside
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The inhabitants of a sleepy rural Midwestern town are blissfully
unaware that a zombie outbreak is presently taking place in its midst,
slowly (and without the authorities even noticing it yet) turning
everybody in sight, from doctors (Steve Hudgins, Grey Hurt) to maintenance
personnel (Marty D. Cook, Neil Vowels), from grieving widowers (Randy
Hardesty) to caring husbands (Steve Schwetman), loving wives (P.J.
Woodside) to cheating ones (Cindy Maples), unlucky gamblers (Rusty James)
to violent debt collectors (Jon Isaac Lutz, Justin Veazey), scheming
sisters-in-law (Sidney Shripka) to loveable elderly uncles (Gary Hunt) and
everything in between, and the only question is, where did the outbreak
originate from, actually? If there was ever a zombie movie that
felt exactly like a soap opera, Hell is Full is it, as it features
quite a large ensemble cast in intertwined stories full of lies and
deceit, crushed hopes and infidelity, larger-than-life tragedies and
unlikely coincidences. That said, if you're at all into zombies, you'll
probably love Hell is Full even if you hate soaps, as the movie
takes a tongue-in-cheek approach at its own story while being quite
serious about its narrative structure: To get to the origin of the zombie
outbreak, the film is told mostly backwards, hacked up into little stories
that lead closer and closer to the actual beginning of the story (though
some do take place simultaneously to be precise). And this works quite so
well because writer/director Steve Hudgins does not take an academic
approach to this structure but a light-footed one that at times seems to
wink at the audience and doesn't shy away from the occasional intentional
silliness or a little game with genre clichés, without ever talking down
to its audience. And the result ... works just extremely well and should
have every horror fan who's just grown a little tired of zombie movies of
late due to over-saturation glued to the screen, really!
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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