Director: Jim Jarmusch
Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Selena Gomez, RZA, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits
Running Time: 103 minutes
Genre: Horror, comedy
The small American town of Centerville is experiencing a series of bizarre events: It gets dark either far too late or far too early for the time of year, animals are behaving out of character or disappearing, and electronic equipment is behaving very erratically. Things get much worse when the dead start to come out of the grave and feast on the flesh of the living.
This marks the second time that acclaimed indie director Jim Jarmusch has entered horror territory, following acclaimed vampire movie Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). This did not get the same positive reception on it's release. The humour is very deadpan, police officers Bill Murray and Adam Driver seem to sleepwalk throughout the entire film even before the zombies appear, and is full of bizarre touches, such as Tilda Swinton as an eccentric, samurai sword wielding Scottish mortician (with a frankly extraordinary accent), and Murray and Driver's characters seem to be aware that they are characters in a film, and the film's theme song becomes a recurring in-joke throughout the film. It's also full of references to other horror films. This isn't really scary at all, and at times it is too self-consciously cool for it's own good, and the characters are too "hip" and quirky to really feel realistic. it also hammers home it's political message a little too bluntly at times. Personally though, I did find it consistently funny. The zombies themselves are effectively designed, "bleeding" clouds of black ash, and drawn to the things that they loved when they were alive. It boasts an impressive cast, who all seem to be having fun.
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