Comments on: Interview: The Book of Zombie — UPDATED

By: Karen Townsend

Karen Townsend — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:57:34 +0000

To “The Pork Eater”, what is your question?

CLV – Thanks for the kind words!

By: clv

clv — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:34:01 +0000

Well I can admit to being a little prejudice here. What can I say? Watch it anyway. You might like it.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:38:27 +0000

Nothing cheesy? Crap; I was thinking of watching it.

By: clv

clv — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:17:50 +0000

I was fortunate to be around to see this come together and I even had the chance to work with these people a little. The energy was incredible. They are all professionals who work or have worked in TV, plus family and friends, who wanted an opportunity to experience the making of a movie themselves, got off their behinds and did. They all donated their time, their talents, a great deal of effort, money and whatever else they could scrape up to make it go. The construction of sets, makeup for zombie hordes and long all night shoots, competed with jobs, family time, and the need for some sleep once in a while (take into consideration that this movie took months to shoot). Making a movie on a shoe string takes real creativity. Wow, I was constantly blown away by what they would come up with, from makeup to sets and equipment. No shortage of imagination there. Hard to believe how much time and effort can go into doing a project like this.

In short this is so much more than a underground movie, though I think they did a great job. From actors to crew this is an amazing effort by a dedicated group of people who loved what they were doing and had a lot of fun doing it. Nothing cheesy here.

By: The Pork-Eater

The Pork-Eater — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:37:20 +0000

I had an actual question about the movie above (#24). Any takers?

By: James Wagner

James Wagner — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:01:10 +0000

Erik – actually there was a Mormon father and daughter in the Zombie horde with me. – Take care, James

By: Karen Townsend

Karen Townsend — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:33:36 +0000

Kevinf, I didn’t take cheesy wrong. I’m pretty sure I knew what you meant by it and I was not offended. :0)

We watched many a cheesy horror flick in the green room during breaks. I never thought I would see that much of this type of genre in my life and I have come to appreciate it. It’s definately mad an impact on me. :0)

Steve, thanks for the “wicked awesome”. I hope you enjoy it when it comes out. :0)

By: Chris Townsend

Chris Townsend — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:29:26 +0000

I agree with my wife Karen and Marcel and thank you all for bringing our film to positive light and recognising it as light hearted fun. I would agree given our limited budget that it is cheesey. Hey we took what we had to work with and made it work. Marcel is very talented for his young age and I look forward to seeing his handy work in the future.

Thank you again Ray and Steve and Kevin for your input. It is valued and I’m not offended. Please don’t take my rebuttals the wrong way.

I myself and a self proclaimed movie geek. This is what happens when you grow up next to a movie theatre. Erik and Marcel have certainly turned me onto movies that I would not have seen otherwise~thank you Erik and Marcel.

Aveline~ thank you for being open minded and the kind comments. We are a friendly bunch. I’m on the TBOZ MySpace friend list as Dirty Scottish Bastard (don’t let the name fool you!) and please feel free to contact me.

Kevinf~~ I’m a huge Burton fan- I proudly wear my Jack Skelington converse without worrying about what people will say.

By: kristine N

kristine N — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:18:56 +0000

I don’t know that people think slasher films are unintelligent, at least not if they actually watch them. A lot of people thought 28 days later and 28 weeks later were good social commentary. I admit I thought the Freddy Kruger movies were probably just stupid get-your-date-in-your-lap movies until I watched a couple and realized they’re actually morality tales. I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead and definitely thought it was good, intelligent humor. I tend to think the more fantastic the premise, the more opportunities there are to make good social commentary, especially since you can do it without coming across as heavy handed.

By: Kevinf

Kevinf — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:11:15 +0000

BTW, Karen and Chris,

When I said “cheesy” in my earlier post, don’t take that as a pejorative statement. It just helps define a certain kind of “don’t take this all that seriously” attitude which is often great fun. After all, I’ve been a Tim Burton fan, loved “Nacho Libre” and “Napoleon Dynamite”, and have recommended the previously mentioned “Dark Star” to many.

Your movie doesn’t look like it fits my particular taste, but good luck. Glad you had fun with it!