Juan of the Dead
| Movie | |
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| German title | Juan of the Dead |
| Original title | Juan de los Muertos |
| Country of production | Spain , Cuba |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alejandro Brugués |
| script | Alejandro Brugués |
| production | Gervasio Iglesias , Inti Herrera |
| music | Sergio Valdés |
| camera | Carles Gusi |
| occupation | |
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Juan of the Dead (OT: Juan de los Muertos ) is a Spanish-Cuban horror comedy from 2011. It was directed by Cuban director Alejandro Brugués . It is about the outbreak of an epidemic in Cuba that is turning people into carnivorous zombies . According to Cuban state television, this is a US- controlled attempted counter-revolution by dissidents . In order to make profit from the disaster, the petty crooks Juan and Lázaro offer themselves as zombie killers. But as the epidemic spreads further and further, the situation becomes more and more hopeless for the protagonists too, so that they begin to look for ways out of the confused situation.
action
Right at the beginning of the film, the two protagonists Juan and Lázaro, while fishing on a raft, are attacked by a zombie swimming in the water, which Lázaro kills with his harpoon. However, neither of them give much thought to the incident at first. After the zombie attacks increase, the Cuban government declares that the undead are US-backed dissidents.
As the situation worsened, Lázaro tries to escape by sea, but Juan convinces him to stay by explaining that the zombie plague can make money. Together with Lázaro's son Vladi California, the transvestite La China and their thug El Primo, the two offer other citizens for money to kill their relatives who have become zombies. But already on their first assignment, the group accidentally kills a client.
Finally, the five zombie killers are picked up by a special police unit and handcuffed and loaded onto a truck. The police explain that their goal is to move all survivors to a new settlement, which the prisoners should first erect a wall to protect. Since there is already one infected among the prisoners, chaos breaks out on the back of the truck. Although everyone in the group can free themselves from the shackles and flee, La China, who is still handcuffed to Juan, is bitten during the fight and turns into a zombie on the roof terrace, which is the group's retreat . Only after a long fight and only with the help of his daughter Camila does Juan finally manage to free himself from the handcuffs and throw La China from the roof.
As the situation becomes more and more precarious, the friends decide to leave the island. During their escape, however, they are trapped by a horde of zombies in the Plaza de la Revolución . However, shortly afterwards the group is rescued by a daring action by an American who introduces himself as Preacher Jones. With this the fugitives finally go to the Hotel Habana Libre , where Jones is accidentally killed by Lázaro with a harpoon.
The friends use the cars in the hotel's garage to construct an amphibious vehicle for escape. When they lower the vehicle into the water after another fight with some zombies, Juan explains that he would rather stay in Cuba. While the vehicle is moving away from the coast, Juan faces the approaching zombie masses.
During the credits that are now beginning, Juan's fight with the zombies is shown in cartoon form. Finally, in the last picture you can see Juan's friends returning to support him in the fight.
History of origin
Most of the film was shot on location in Havana . However, some pictures were taken in front of a green screen , so that some pictures of Havana were only added to the background afterwards. The script was written by Alejandro Brugués, who also directed.
The title is a reference to the film Shaun of the Dead (2004), which in turn is a parody of the 1978 horror classic Dawn of the Dead .
reception
From 19 aggregated ratings, Juan of the Dead on Rotten Tomatoes achieved a score of 79%.
"Unimaginatively staged zombie slapstick with cheap punchlines and amateur actors, which is not attractive even through vague political allusions."
" Juan of the Dead is a black-humored zombie comedy from Cuba that scores with very good ideas, a considerable splatter factor and a socially critical undertone."
Web links
- Juan of the Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Juan of the Dead in the online movie database
- Juan of the Dead in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Juan of the Dead . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 829 K).
- ↑ Reason for release
- ↑ Juan of the Dead , Spielfilm.de, accessed on September 13, 2012
- ↑ B. Alan Orange: EXCLUSIVE: Alejandro Brugue's Talks 'Juan of the Dead' DVD , MovieWeb, August 14, 2012
- ↑ RottenTomatoes.com: Juan of the Dead (2012). Retrieved July 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Juan of the Dead. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Juan of the Dead film review , Matthias Börner, filmstarts.de