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One Cut of the Dead
Why this pick
Like Juan of the Dead, this turns a zombie outbreak into scrappy, fast-moving comedy, with an affectionate ensemble of lovable incompetents and a playful low-budget spirit.
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MOVIE2011 1h 32m ESP
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The Dead Don't Die
Why this pick
Its deliberately dry, absurdist humour and deadpan responses to an escalating zombie crisis echo Juan of the Dead’s satirical refusal to treat apocalypse with solemnity.
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Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies
Why this pick
This gleefully silly Austrian zombie romp favors chaotic attacks, broad comic characters and improvised survival over grim horror, matching Juan’s mischievous genre tone.
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Zombieland
Why this pick
A comic apocalypse powered by a mismatched makeshift family, inventive kills and road-trip momentum; it shares Juan of the Dead’s balance of gore, jokes and friendship.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Juan (Alexis Díaz de Villegas) is forty years old and has devoted the majority of his life to living in Cuba doing absolutely nothing. He is accompanied by his bumbling sidekick, Lazaro (Jorge Molina Enríquez), who is just as lazy but the bigger fool (and accident-prone), on a makeshift fishing raft. Their line snags what they think is a corpse but it suddenly awakens and attacks them, ending with Lazaro shooting it in the head with his spear gun. They think nothing of it at first and go about their business as usual, which involves thuggish activity and associating with their less than reputable friends: Lazaro's vain, Americanized pretty-boy son Vladi California; drag queen La China, who is also an expert slingshot marksman; and China's hulk-like lover Primo (who faints at the sight of blood and has to wear a blindfold when fighting).
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jorge Molina
Lázaro
Andrea Duro
Camila
Jazz Vilá
La China
Antonio Dechent
Padre Jones