Graveyard Alive

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Movie
German title Graveyard Alive
Original title Graveyard Alive
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 80 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Elza Kephart
script Patrica Gomez ,
Elza Kephart
production Elza Kephart,
Patricia Gomez,
Andrea Stark
music Martin Pelland
camera John Ashmore
cut Stéphane Olivier
occupation

Graveyard Alive is a Canadian low-budget - horror film from 2003, which directed by Elza Kephart was born. The black-and-white zombie film , which was awarded a prize at the Slamdance Film Festival , combines not only genre-typical Gore elements but also ironic and humorous interludes.

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The shy, lonely and dreamy wallflower Patsy Power works together with her former school friend, chief physician Dr. Dox, whom she still adores passionately, and his attractive fiancé Goodie Tueshuze as a nurse in a hospital emergency room . Patsy leads a rather inconspicuous existence until one day a strange patient, who is obviously dead, shows up for treatment with an ax in his skull. The man, who can still speak and walk, is admitted to the hospital for further observation after a successful operation, where he is cared for by Patsy. The two soon get closer, and finally a friendship develops until she is bitten and infected by the eccentric.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian- born shabby Dr. Kapotsky reports that the patient is a zombie and ritually kills him with a silver knife. On the other hand, Patsy, plagued by strange dreams and slow physical decline, changes radically. She dresses much more revealingly and is soon greeted by her "beloved" Dr. Dox, as well as other men of the clinic staff, much to the discomfort of Goodie, courted. After a rendezvous, she succeeds in infecting a carer.

Kapotsky notices the changed Patsy, soon exposes her as a zombie and tries to kill her, but she beats him and stabs him. To satisfy her insatiable appetite for raw meat, Patsy eats her murder victim and buries the remains. However, in order to continue to get the "food" they needed, she subsequently gave patients an overdose of morphine , which led to a surge in hospital deaths.

The lustful chief doctor Dox, whose fiancée Goodie refuses to have a premarital intercourse, feels physically attracted to his former school friend, which prompts Goodie to conduct extensive investigations. She comes across a zombie book by Kapotsky, which is about walking corpses, and also notices that Patsy is a zombie - but initially nobody believes her. Driven by the desire to convict Patsy, Goodie slowly loses touch with reality, attacks Patsy with a knife and drives Dr. Dox downright into the arms of her competitor, who after initial hesitation finally bites him.

At the end of the film, Goodie, who previously fled a sanatorium where she was taken after the failed attempt to murder Patsy, tries to eliminate the former wallflower. But in the meantime the entire hospital staff is infected, so that their plan fails.

Awards

Slamdance Film Festival
  • 2004: Award in the "Best Camera" category

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