Desperate filmmaker Osric Taylor dreams of making his civil war Hamlet but when production funding dries up, he agrees to take southern matron Hester Beauchamps offer to fund the film if he throws some zombies in it to make their money back. But when Hester dies in mid shoot, Osric dresses up as Hester to cash the last check and awakens the suspicions of both the local police and ambitious local news reporter Shine Reynolds. Inspired by an actual incident.
Acting
K.C. Clyde's deadpan descent into madness
Costume
Hester's funeral chic meets zombie apocalypse
Writing
Shakespeare quotes shoehorned into brain-eating scenes
Director
John Murlowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Inspired by a real 2008 incident where a filmmaker kept shooting after his investor's death—minus the zombie element.
Shot in Louisiana using local talent, representing the scrappy regional film scene that digital democratization was supposed to save.
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