"The definitive documentary on zombie culture", so reads the synopsis of the new film by Alexandre O Philippe, "Doc of the Dead."
The director of «People vs. George Lucas "and" The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus "returns to the fray with a new documentary on the philes of humans.
If in his first film «People vs. George lucas»Analyzed the love / hate of« Star Wars »fans towards its creator, George Lucas and in«The Life and Times of Paul the Psychic Octopus»Investigated the facility humanity has to create myths out of nothing through the octopus Paul and his apparent power of divination, this time Alexandre O. Philippe immerses himself in zombie culture.
For this he has the help of George A. Rosemary, the director par excellence of this cinematographic subgenre with titles such as "The Night of the Living Dead" from 1968, "Zombie, Dawn of the Dead" from 1978 or more recently "The Resistance of the Dead" from 2009, and Simon Pegg, whom we saw running in front of zombies in "Shaun of the Dead" among many other film directors and actors who have worked on tapes of this theme such as Bruce Campbell, Frank kranz, Tom Savini, Greg nicotero o R, who talk about the ins and outs of the fan phenomenon.