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Shadow Zombie
USA 2013
produced by Jorge Torres-Torres, Jason Banker for Cantina Filmworks, Blackout Films
directed by Jorge Torres-Torres
starring Kim Filth, Brandi Viator, Cecily Mitchell, Roosevelt Joseph Richard, Sally Smith, Steve Wilkerson, Amber Benoit, Shawn Gachassin, Shane Cormier, Brandt Ulmer, Austin Saucier, Dylan Nicholson, Bryan Benoit, Eva Dorrepaal, Rob Peterson
written by Jorge Torres-Torres, music by Jesse McGowan, songs by Ceramic Dvck, Blood Rapture, special makeup effects by Amber Benoit, visual effects by Neil Benjamin
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Kim (Kim Filth) isn't one to be envied: He still lives with his dad
(Roosevelt Joseph Richard) though he's slightly too old for that, he has
spent most of his adult life pushing drugs, and is to this day mostly
roaming the parks trying to sell his stuff, he's socially slightly
awkward, writes poetry he never shows anybody, and all his thoughs seem
slightly on the morbid side. He only ever feels free when he puts on
makeup to become his alter ego, Shadow Zombie. One day Kim meets Brandi
(Brandi Viator), a nurse who loves to run around in clown makeup and
become her alter ego Cookie - and Cookie and Shadow Zombie get along
really well, hang out together more and more, go on dates, get to know one
another. But Cookie has never come over the death of her parents (Eva
Dorrepaal, Rob Peterson), and she seems to constantly feel their presence
around her, which makes her slightly unhinged. When Kim wants to take the
next step in their relationship, Brandi suddenly slaps him and throws him
out of her place. Kim doesn't understand because Brandi meant everything
to him and he didn't exactly force himself onto her, either, but he
figures the whole thing might just take a little time to fall together
again - but then Brandi commits suicide by hanging herself ... Shadow
Zombie is most definitely a very unusual film: Mostly, it's shot
verité-style, almost like a documentary, introducing us to one weird but
at the end of the day utterly likeable character and his eerie lifestyle,
but at (only seemingly) random points the movie suddenly confronts us with
spots of surrealism as well as almost lyrical moments that add unexpected
beauty to the otherwise gloomy proceedings, but there are also scenes of
horror as well as humour, and as unexpected as it may come, the whole
thing ends on a positive note. A rather unique movie, actually, and one
that has to be experienced to be understood.
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