One Cut of the Dead is brilliant and so fucking funny. I'd recommend going in knowing as little as possible.



If you must know more, it's a movie about people making a zombie movie about zombies attacking people who are making a zombie movie. ACTION!


If you don't know anything going in, you will just assume that the first half hour or so is all that the movie is. A low budget zombie movie with a 1917 style of cinematography. Then the credits and you're like, wait, there's still an hour to go, what's happening? We then flash back a month to the Zombie Network (all zombies, all the time) pitching the director this absurd project, where it not only has be done in one shot, but also performed live too. After an appropriate amount of character building, we return to the set of the film and watch it again, this time from the filmmakers' point of view. The comedy comes from all the parts that were not planned, and how the crew has to constantly solve obstacles as they are live on the air.

This is an A for me. And even though it isn't a real zombie movie, I'd put it up on the Zombie Rushmore along with Shaun, Busan and Dawn.

I saw this a while ago and actually really enjoyed it as well thanks to a youtuber I'm subscribed to reviewing it and recommending it. It's definitely closer to something like Shaun of the Dead than Train to Busan or Dawn of the Dead which are all great zombie films too, but this is quite different than any of those and because of that I found it really refreshing and unique. Also, you will have a much better experience with it IMO the less you know going in.

B+

It's indeed pretty great, and if it wasn't for its insane box-office run, I probably wouldn't have watched it. It was filmed in a single week on a ¥3 million (a bit over $25,000 at the time) and features a continues 37-minute shot. It earned 1,040 times its budget.

A-.