If you know nothing about zombie movies, learn as much as you can, then promptly forget everything you've learned. (The easiest way to forget, as I understand, is to have a friend drop a coconut on your head.)
After completing these steps, go look at the video stills of We Are Going to Eat You, a horror movie with equally horrifying production values, which was shot by my friend Psaur back in, as he notes, 1984 or 1985.
Now that's a zombie movie.
Ah, 1984 or 1985: Reagan had just begun his second term, or was a year into his second term. Pepsi was red-faced after burning Michael Jackson during a commercial shoot, or Coke had just released the disastrous New Coke. Clara Peller asked the nation: "Where's the Beef," or Microsoft released Windows 1.0. You remember 1984 or 1985.
A quick check on IMDB.com reveals no record of We Are Going to Eat You. Was it too controversial? Or is it not there because it was just a video shot by some 15 or 16-year old Long Island kids? Look at the stills and judge for yourself.
UPDATE: As Mo'sh points out in the comments, the film was shot on Super 8 film not video. And Mo'sh was involved, too. I was so transfixed by Psaur's enormous zombie head that I forgot it was an ensemble piece. You can see more stills on Psaur's home page: Don't Parade in My Rain.
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Actually, we choose the medium of film, not video, for our zombie spectacular. Super 8 specifically. After months of planning and debating, we decided that since we already had a Super 8 camera, and didn't even know video cameras were commercially available (they were and they cost around $8,000), we would paint our bingo ink-drenched portrait of the undead with film. I'm thinking of showing the film on the festival and filmhouse circuit, and so have decided against a DVD release at the present time.
Actually, I need a bulb for my projector. So, as of know, the film is a lost classic due to my frugality and sloth.
Thanks, Brian, for highlighting this important film in the annals of Long Island cinema.
Move over, Hal Hartley!
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