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Undead Cowboys And The End Of The World

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (11)

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Well, theoretically these trailers are about everything I love. Westerns, zombies, the end of the world, anarchy and boobs. It’s a perfect storm, really. Except, of course, both movies look like they were made for about a buck and a half.

Now, that’s not to say that there isn’t some excellent low-budget horror out there, particularly in the straight to DVD market, which these clearly will be. I just don’t know that they’re candidates to be the next Mutants.

First up is my favorite of the two, The Dead And The Damned, a tongue-in-cheek zombie western (a truly underrepresented genre). It looks amusing enough, the makeup is surprisingly decent, and it may well be a fun, stupid time. It’s written, directed, edited, and scored by Rene Perez, which means Mr. Perez (who has one other film credit to his name) is either extremely multitalented, or flat-fucking broke. The trailer has no dialogue, so the whole thing could be in Tagalog for all I know. It stars no one anyone’s heard of, but I don’t care. I’m watching it. It’s like Unforgiven meets Night of the Living Dead… if both of those were really dumb movies with no known actors and a threadbare plot. Oh, and tits.

Yeah. That’s the better of the two.

Next we’ve got the trailer for The Collapsed, which takes itself very, very seriously. It’s brutally derivative:


“In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive against insurmountable odds. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home, Dover’s Bend.

The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest, soon to discover the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries.”

So… nothing exactly new there. Again, a budget of about the cost of a bucket of popcorn, no name actors, but if you’re going to shoot low-budget horror, you either need to be a fucking savant, or you need a solid sense of humor. I get the feeling that writer/director Justin McConnell and co-writer Kevin Hutchinson (who is mostly a makeup artist) are neither. There is a bit of mystery to the trailer — is the “something” that’s hunting them other people? Cannibals? Mutants? Giant invisible badgers? OMIGOD IS IT REPUBLICANS?

(source: Bloody Disgusting)









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Comments

"Dover’s Bend"

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Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 2, 2010 10:51 AM

I didn't see tits in either trailer. There was the implication of tits, but no bona fide display of glorious mammarifousness. Until I have confirmation of boobage, I will remain here looking askance at these trailers with incredulousness. I have been fooled before.

Posted by: admin at November 2, 2010 11:07 AM

Zombie westerns..scripts being tossed around La La Land like crazy. The latest craze. Can't wait

Posted by: JaneSpotting at November 2, 2010 11:08 AM

Thanks, Slim. It didn't really register before your comment.

Now, the only question is...this "community"...nah I won't go there.

Posted by: Uncle JR at November 2, 2010 11:19 AM

"Dover’s Bend"

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Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 2, 2010 10:51 AM

established in 1854 by founders Benjamin Dover and Robert Bonnet.

Posted by: Solamente at November 2, 2010 11:20 AM

These movies always have the shakiest of premises for why the characters have to get to, in this case "Dover's Bend." Well, we're in a relatively secure location here in this big city where there's probably lots of canned food and residual purified water from the ubiquitous top-of-sky-scraper water tanks. And while some fires have broken out, most modern cities are built now where fires will eventually contain themselves because most buildings are built of fire-retardant stone on the outside.

And surely in the formerly rougher neighborhoods we can stock up on guns and ammo and even items to barricade the apartment we're living in from whatever is roving around but I JUST HAVE TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Posted by: Lindsay at November 2, 2010 11:45 AM

" Well, we're in a relatively secure location here in this big city where there's probably lots of canned food and residual purified water"


Eeeeeeh, you are partially right, the water argument is compelling, but a big city would have a high concentration of Walkers. You'd do better to head for a nearby suburb or maybe an elctric/water plant outside the city.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at November 2, 2010 12:10 PM

Thats the way to cut a trailer for your crappy low-budget movie. No dialogue, just action shots and fast music. The minute you hear someone speak, it's hard to avoid the knowledge of how terrible the movie will be.

Posted by: e at November 2, 2010 1:17 PM

admin, There's some sideboob in the first one, if that's his definition of "tits."

It's not mine.

Posted by: , at November 2, 2010 2:18 PM

I like the title and the music (I saw Young Guns at an impressionable age) of the first one. Mr L would certainly watch it, all the more so if there was the possibility of boobage to go with zombies and people jumping out at each other.

Posted by: lingli at November 2, 2010 5:08 PM

Dunno, think The Collapsed looks kind of cool. Guess there's some other flicks it sounds sort of like, but I wouldn't jump to conclusions without seeing it first. Maybe I'll be wrong, but I'll wait and see.

Posted by: MotherSucksC**ksInHell at November 2, 2010 11:51 PM