Attack of the lederhosen zombies

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Movie
Original title Attack of the lederhosen zombies
Country of production Austria
original language German , English
Publishing year 2016
length 78 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Dominik Hartl ,
Armin Prediger
script Dominik Hartl
production Markus Fischer
music Paul Gallister
camera Xiaosu Han ,
Andreas Thalhammer
cut Daniel Prochaska
occupation

Attack of the Lederhosenzombies is an Austrian zombie film from 2016 by Dominik Hartl , in which a bloodbath is wrought to the sound of the Danube waltz. The leading roles are cast with Laurie Calvert , Gabriela Marcinková , Oscar Dyeær Giese and Margarethe Tiesel .

action

The Tyrolean entrepreneur Franz Steiner developed a heat-resistant artificial snow from a poisonous-green fluorescent substance called Solanum +10, which he sold to the investor Chekov, a Russian. When he came into contact with the substance during a demonstration on the ski slope, he developed large pustules and had to vomit, with a green beam escaping his mouth. A little later he can only grunt when he tries to speak.

Other guests who come into contact with the so-called artificial snow in Rita's Gaudihütte undergo a change and become staggering, slimy-throwing zombies . However, they are difficult to distinguish from the alcoholic corpses that come across at après-ski , so that the worrying transformation is initially not noticeable. The undead Chekov gradually transforms the drunk people celebrating around him into bloodthirsty zombies.

Professional extreme snowboarder Steve failed a commercial and ruined the footage, resulting in him, girlfriend Branka, and colleague Josh being left behind in the mountains. In search of a shelter, the three end up in the Gaudi hut, where the celebrants water the end of the season. When they realize that something is completely wrong here, they first hide behind the beer benches, then defend themselves with sharp-edged snowboards and ski sticks and finally resort to chainsaws and snow blowers to avoid a transformation. Gaudi hostess Rita is a valuable help.

production

Production notes

The shooting took place in the spring of 2015 in Lower Austria , Upper Austria and South Tyrol . The film realization was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , Filmstandort Austria , the Province of Upper Austria and the Province of Lower Austria , Cine Art and Business Location South Tyrol, and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was also involved . Fischer Film was responsible for production . Claus Benischke was responsible for the sound, Cinzia Cioffi for the costume design and Florian Kaposi for the production design. The special effects by Tissi Brandhofer were implemented by the Berlin studio Chris Creatures .

The slaughter in the film is underlaid with the Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss . The film, which was marketed internationally, was shot mainly in English, title: Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies . According to critic Harald Ladstätter, this is the only film known to him "that mentions a 'penis double' in the credits".

publication

The film premiered on April 4, 2016 at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival . In Austria it was shown in September 2016 on the occasion of the / Slash Film Festival ; it was released in theaters on December 23, 2016. In Germany, the film was released on December 25, 2016.

The film was released on February 24, 2017 with a German soundtrack on DVD, published by the Capelight Pictures (AL! VE) studio.

criticism

Harald Ladstätter wrote on filmtipps.at : “Now Austria also has its zombie apocalypse, which adds a variant rich in blood, fluff and guts to the winter hustle and bustle in local après-ski huts. Effects lovingly handmade and worth seeing, timing, editing and sound sometimes horribly wrong. All in all, a not unoriginal, but technically still clearly expandable matter. "

The Wiener Zeitung wrote that in Dominik Hartl's film “the common ingredients of the genre are handled so cheerfully” “like the bowels of zombie victims. There are also ingredients with an Austrian touch, keyword Danube Waltz . That is reasonably entertaining (especially thanks to Tiesel as a snowmobile warrior) and reasonably exciting, but unfortunately not more. "

The Oberösterreichische Nachrichten described the film as a “pop cultural alternative to the fiction of the ideal world” and praised it as a film that combines the excellently styled undead with many elements that are typical of the zombie film genre, including comic exaggeration. Hartl not only offers politically incorrect comedy through the visual, but also a "rock-hard satire on our waltz bliss, the love of skiing and the lapidary handling of climate change ".

DerStandard.at judged: “Director Dominik Hartl doesn't set the bar very high with the fence posts in his film Attack. ... Unfortunately, the blood soup spills more than once in the direction of the farmers' theater. That means humor with a simple bottom and a ski stick through the head as a dramatic climax. "

Christoph Petersen from the Filmstarts editorial team was of the opinion that director Dominik Hartl "cleverly exploited the fact that his zombie film did not come from Great Britain, Asia or the USA like most of the contributions in the genre". He continued: “But at the same time the staging limitations and the pale actors spoil the splatter fun so much that 'Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies' unfortunately won't be the fun the title promises after all.” The editors awarded two out of five Sternen, which corresponds to the verdict “lukewarm”, and drew the conclusion: “A whole series of successful gore moments with snowboards only partially comforts the fact that 'attack by the lederhosen zombies' just never really gets going”.

Lars Dolkemeyers asked the question for kino-zeit.de : “Which weapon works best against zombies?” And said: “Of course Josh knows the only correct answer: 'Depends on which kind of zombie film we're in.' So when in doubt, every weapon is the right weapon. And so the Lederhosen zombie attack without forced explanations, without the unnecessary ballast of pseudo-elaborate background stories, can be exactly what it promises to be and what should meet all expectations of this film: An honest, wacky and extremely fun zombie festival. "

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved November 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ film.at: Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies . Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b Christoph Petersen: Attack of the Lederhosenzombies at filmstarts.de (with trailer). Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b filmtipps.at: Attack of the Lederhosenzombies . Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  5. ↑ / slash Film Festival 2016: Attack of the Lederhosenzombies ( Memento from November 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies (2016) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  7. ↑ Attack of the Lederhosenzombies DVD by Capelight Pictures
  8. ↑ Patrick Pohsberg: Attack of the Lederhosenzombies criticism of the Austrian zombie slam, February 23, 2017, at robots-and-dragons-de. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  9. ^ Wiener Zeitung: Bloody Hüttengaudi . Article dated December 21, 2016, accessed December 22, 2016.
  10. ^ Upper Austrian news: Hüttengaudi with blood and fluff in the cinema . Article dated December 23, 2016, accessed December 23, 2016.
  11. ↑ derStandard.at - "Attack of the Lederhosenzombies": Hüttengaudi with blood soup . Article dated December 23, 2016, accessed December 24, 2016.
  12. ↑ Lars Dolkemeyer: Attack of the Lederhosenzombies: Après-Ski-Gaudi meets Zombie-Apocalypse at kino-zeit.de. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  13. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2018 . Retrieved December 6, 2017.