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"The Walking Dead" Not Doing It For You? Give "Viva Berlin!" A Shot

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (15)

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I know some of you are rapidly losing patience with “The Walking Dead.” I still like it, but I don’t love it like I did last season. It’s woefully inconsistent, but as I said earlier this week, it looks like it might finally be going somewhere.

But, if you’ve abandoned it like an angry handless redneck on a rooftop, take a look at “Viva Berlin!” It’s a German web series about the zombie apocalypse, focusing on Berlin, and it looks bloody intense. Check out the trailer (entirely in German, but you’ll figure it out):

It’s got a seriously claustrophobic feel to it, and I love the zombie effects. And it doesn’t appear to be flinching away from the violence at all. Best of all, it looks like fairly gripping drama that has what we all would like to see more of from “The Walking Dead”: massive amounts of undead-related mayhem.

Take some notes, AMC.

“Viva Berlin!” doesn’t have a release date yet… or maybe it does. I don’t know, because I don’t speak German. So someone head over to the official website and tell me what the hell’s going on.

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Comments

The only thing on the website is an announcement that it has been shown on the various Fantasy Filmfests. No further information.

Looks interesting, though. There is a one-hour-TV-movie with the same thematic out there. It's called "Rammbock" (Battering Ram).

Posted by: FabMax at November 10, 2011 10:39 AM

So, was that dude banging a zombie at the end of the trailer?

Posted by: Reggie at November 10, 2011 10:41 AM

Apparently it was part of a fantasy film festival that played Berlin august 16-24

Posted by: Bored at November 10, 2011 10:42 AM

My German is super rusty, but the website just looks to be a list of cities and dates where it might have screened already (all in August and September)? As for the video, I could barely hear individual words enough to get their gist, but the title cards definitely seem to imply that the Fall of the Berlin Wall is what eventually lead to the zombie outbreak. Which is, um, weird. But I bet there's someone out there who knows the language of Deutschland far better than me...

Posted by: RobP at November 10, 2011 10:46 AM

yes, please!

also....the guy was totally humping a corpse, wasn't he? really, dude?

Posted by: haplo at November 10, 2011 10:52 AM

I was actually at the FFF in Berlin this year (and the last 6 before that) and I don't think they showed the whole thing in one setting. They just showed episodes before certain screenings and I caught one. It was actually the one with the guy fucking the zombie girl and it was gloriously disgusting.

The audience certainly cheered, but then it's the kind of audience that grumbles when there's not enough mayhem, blood spatter and just general grossing out.

Posted by: Phedre at November 10, 2011 10:58 AM

Speaking of TWD, I'm catching up on this season on the DVR and noticed something odd. Do the zombies seem more...agile...this year? I'm thinking specifically of the scene in which they chase the girl into the woods.

Then again, I'd been drinking a hefty portion of boxed wine at that point, so maybe it was me.

Posted by: boscobarbell at November 10, 2011 11:07 AM

I googled a bit and according to some info on the official Fantasy Filmfest site the series will be online at the end of the year.
I also found the original call for crew, extras and all kinds of helping hands. Seems as if the series is a diploma thesis of a film student.

Posted by: mare at November 10, 2011 12:10 PM

Now if that had a Rammstein soundtrack, it would be perfect.

Posted by: OldSchool60 at November 10, 2011 12:17 PM

It's not about how the wall caused the zombie apocalypse, it only says when the wall was built, when it was torn down and then it says it was rebuilt in 2012. (Wiederafbau means rebuilt.) My German is pretty rusty so I can't tell you what they are talking about.

Posted by: Simon at November 10, 2011 2:14 PM

DJ/voiceover: "This is Pitt of Radio [something] Berlin, the station gazing into the abyss with you. News about the origins of the Crisis, its progress and tips about [droned out by music]. Tell us where you are and how things are, and believe me: there's still humans hearing you."

card: 1961: The Building of the Wall

Woman: How many today?
Man: Fifty, sixty... they're growing in numbers.
Woman: If you're bitten, and that can happen any time, I won't leave you behind/for dead.

card: 1989: The Fall of the Wall

Herr Übercreepy: "Four weeks of this state of emergency, and we're back to our old [glory?]"

card: 2012: The Rebuilding of the Wall

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Also, that loud (zombie) scream sounds a lot like a sound effect from zombie videogame Left 4 Dead, but then this series is a student project...

Posted by: muzz at November 10, 2011 5:17 PM

Don't worry guys! There will be a poorly made American remake coming our way very soon.

Posted by: Candy at November 10, 2011 5:45 PM

Adding to muzz''s comment:
"News about the origins of the Crisis, its progress and tips about
... the drugs that help you survive best."
"Four weeks in this state of emergency, we're back in ancient Rome. *creepy laugh*"

Oh, how I love that Dead Man's Bones song.

And: Don't worry, folks. This is going to be intense, but not in a good way. If it were good, I'd have heard of it. I haven't. So there.

Posted by: Rooks at November 10, 2011 7:49 PM

The caption of that picture should be:
"Vote for me or I will find you and I will fucking kill you!"

Posted by: John W at November 10, 2011 10:11 PM

"Take some notes, AMC"?

Yep, I watched that trailer and thought, "Thats exactly what Walking Dead is missing. Necrophilia."

Posted by: Johnny at November 11, 2011 12:54 AM