Zombie movie Colin has taken this years Cannes Film Festival by storm.

That a British independent zombie movie has got the folks at Cannes buzzing is news in itself but the fact that Marc Price, the director, made the film for only £45 makes it even more remarkable. According to the article on the Daily Mail website, he spent the budget on tea, coffee, DV tapes..and a crowbar.

Price has done a great job in marketing the movie and used the current economic climate to pitch the film based on its credit crunch busting budget and has got write ups in Metro, The Times and The Hollywood Reporter.

From a zombie movie perspective, Colin also takes an unusual route in that it covers the story from a zombies point of view. The lead character gets bitten early in the film, dies and then comes back as a zombie and the rest of the action is focused on his life as a zombie. In his review, Mike Simpson compares the performance of lead actor, Alastair Kirton, to Karloff in Frankenstein. High praise indeed!

Seeing a British independent zombie movie do well at Cannes warms the cockles of our heart (note to self: must find out what a heart cockle actually does) but it’s made even more pleasing because some of our very own SNOTD make up team worked on the project.

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The SNOTD shop is open for business. You can now buy your zombie and horror stuff directly from the Stag Night of the Dead website and help us out.

Those lovely chaps at Amazon.co.uk have helped us set up our own wee zombie shop and every time you buy anything from the shop, they send us a couple of pennies in commission. It doesn’t have to be zombie or horror stuff. Basically anything you buy from the shop will count.

Want to buy a 42″ plasma from Amazon? Not a problem. Buy it from the SNOTD shop.

Can’t find what you’re looking for? Use the search box and buy it from the SNOTD shop.

Stag Night of the Dead is a totally independent movie. We had no help from the UK film agencies making the film. It was totally self funded so by using the SNOTD shop to buy your stuff from Amazon you are helping us to continue to make independent films.

All purchases are direct with Amazon and you are covered by all their usual T&C’s. Only purchases made from Amazon.co.uk via the SNOTD shop qualify for commission.

So if you’re a regular Amazon shopper and want to support UK independent filmmaking, ditch your old links and start using the SNOTD shop.

As we shuffle ever closer to the first screening of Stag Night of the Dead, I thought it would be a good time to announce that the SNOTD soundtrack includes a track by Scottish songstress Sandi Thom who had a UK number 1 hit with I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker.

Sadly she hasn’t re-recorded it using the title I came up with which I think is a real shame. I think it’s rather catchy, don’t you? I can imagine kids singing along as they listen to Tony Blackburn on the Hit Parade.

In other news I can confirm that there will be an announcement on this site about a pre-release screening of Stag Night of the Dead in the next week. If you don’t want to miss anything you’d better subscribe to the SNOTD RSS feed by clicking on one of the links under the big orange button.

Finally SNOTD is now on Twitter. We’ll be tweeting bits of movie and zombie news so why don’t you follow us – @snotd – on the fastest growing social site on t’internet? We might not have as many followers as Ashton Kutcher or be as funny as Stephen Fry but there’ll probably be more swearing!

Sorry for the lack of updates this year. I had a bacon sandwich in January and caught swine flu. I wouldn’t mind but it said cured on the packet…

Anyway just before I get my coat, I thought I would remind everyone to subscribe to the SNOTD RSS feed. It’s just over there to your right. Y’know, by the big orange button. Subscribing is free and you can chose to get all of the latest news sent via email or pick it up through your favourite feed reader.

Now why on earth would I suggest subscribing to a website that hasn’t been updated for so blooming long?

Oh..no reason. It’s just..well..y’know..if any news were to be coming out over the next few weeks then you’d read it here first. That’s all.

As you were.

15 November 2008

It’s around 7 o’clock in the evening and I’m pacing around a gloomy garage forecourt somewhere on the A1, watching as the Guv is trying to negotiate a deal on his fuel/oil/coffee combo with the unimpressed attendant.

It’s not the chill in the air, or indeed the fact that I’ve only got 20 cigarettes on me and I haven’t seen the attendant pass any over to the Guv, that’s making me edgy.

Tonight we’re going up to Leeds to attend the 8th Annual NIGHT of the DEAD – part of the 22nd Leeds International Film Festival. The Guv’s put together a new trailer and we’ve trimmed down the Behind the Screams doc so that we can get it into the festival as a short feature.

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