Goal of the Dead - You have to be eleven zombies

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Movie
German title Goal of the Dead - You have to be eleven zombies
Original title Goal of the Dead
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 2014
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Thierry Poiraud ,
Benjamin Rocher
script Raphael Rocher
production Raphael Rocher
music Thomas Couzinier ,
Frederic Kooshmanian
camera Matias Boucard
cut Dimitri Amar ,
Nathalie Langlade ,
Stephane Elmadjian
occupation

Goal of the Dead - Elf Zombies you have to be (Original title: Goal of the Dead ) is a French horror comedy by Thierry Poiraud and Benjamin Rocher . The zombie film was released in February 2014 and is set on the sidelines of a soccer game.

action

First halftime

The big football club Olympique de Paris is a guest at the much smaller Club Capelongue. Nobody anticipates a problem. But the aging Samuel Lorit comes from the small town and is returning to his old home for the first time. But there he is considered a persona non grata and a traitor. In particular, his old friend Jeannot is after him or his father. He ordered extra steroids . At the door, however, the package is swapped and after he has given his son the injection, he turns into a zombie. The team bus with Lorit, Idriss, his successor as the star player, the journalist Soléne, and his teammates reached the stadium. Sam receives a frosty reception straight away. The local ultra-movement , consisting of four men, is also opposing him despite the stadium ban . The game also turns out to be difficult, because after the slightest foul , Lorit is sent off. After a brief protest, his team continues without him. Eventually the Ultras manage to ignite a Bengali fire and the stadium disappears in the fog. At this moment, Jeannot enters the scene and infects one after the other. Chaos breaks out. Sam, who doesn't notice any of this, is led to a pub by Cléo. There she reveals to him that she did not want to turn him on, but is actually his 17 year old daughter. At that moment Solène comes into the pub and chaos breaks loose there too.

Second halftime

The survivors prepare for the showdown in different groups. Idriss, betrayed by his agent, who found him to have a meniscus injury , makes ends meet with one of the ultras in the stadium. The Ultra manages to play their battle song.

Meanwhile, Cléo, Solène and Sam meet Sam's father, the village policeman and two surviving Ultras. You're trying to get the situation right. To do this, they barricade themselves in the police station. When Sam's father tries to inform the army over the CB radio , he is injured. Together with Solène and his son, they make their way to the doctor's house. But this is the father of Jeannot and thus the root of all evil. Sam's father is killed in the ensuing fight. Soléne and Sam return to the police station, but Cléo and the Ultras have heard the stadium singing and are on their way to free their buddy.

All survivors meet on the playing field. But in a fight with one of the zombies, the music is accidentally switched on and all zombies rush into the stadium. The survivors now face an overwhelming number of zombies. So Sam and Idriss do what they do best: they play soccer and can distract the zombies while the rest of the group gets to safety. When everyone is safe, Idress and Sam also try to save each other, but meet Jeannot, whom they can defeat together. Then they are rescued and the army rushes towards the city to get hold of the zombies.

During the credits Sam can be seen, meanwhile in a relationship with Solène, he now owns the village pub. Meanwhile, the living residents have come to terms with the zombies.

background

The production company Capture the Flag, founded by Raphael and Benjamin Rocher ( The Horde ) and Yannick Dahan, was responsible for Goal of the Dead . In addition to The Horde , the production company also shot the film Territories . The next project was then Goal of the Dead , which was filmed mostly in Paris with a budget of 4.4 million US dollars .

The film is divided into two halves (called halves). The first half was shot by Benjamin Rocher, who was also responsible for the zombie film The Horde . Thierry Poiraud directed the second part. The film premiered at a film festival in Rotterdam . It was released for theatrical release in France on February 27, 2014. The DVD and VOD release took place at the same time as the start of the 2014 World Cup .

In Germany, the Koch Media Group released the DVD and Blu-ray on June 26, 2014. Despite some bloody effects, the film achieved FSK approval from the age of 16.

Reviews

The film magazine Cinema rated the film relatively good:

“With playful staging and dry humor, 'Goal of the Dead' holds the genre mirror in front of the football business and fan culture in an entertainingly ironic way. A regular playing time of 90 minutes would have been enough. "

- Cinema.de

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Elsa Keslassy: Capture the zombie. Variety , September 18, 2010, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Louis Pattison / Gwilym Mumford: Miley sings Moz, zombie football, and all the rest of today's pop culture as it happened. May 21, 2014, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Elsa Keslassy: Berlin: 'Goal Of The Dead' scores for Films Distribution (EXCLUSIVE). Variety , February 11, 2014, accessed December 29, 2017 .
  5. ^ Goal of the Dead in the online film database
  6. ↑ Goal of the Dead - Elf Zombies you have to be on DVD. Cinema.de , accessed on December 29, 2017 .