Trailer for the remake of the incredibly funny Japanese zombie movie ONE CUT OF THE DEAD

First of all, if you haven’t seen the 2017 Japanese zombie comedy A cut of the dead/Camera or Tomeru na! (Don’t stop the camera!) by the director Shin’ichirō Ueda’you have to watch it as it is easily one of the best zombie movies to have been made.

WELL, A cut of the dead was remade by the French director Michel Hazanavicius (The artist), It is entitled Final cutand it seems to stay pretty close to what the original film was like.

The story centers on “a director (Romain Duris, The Auberge Espagnole). Hazanavicius “milks the film’s hilarious, meta-to-the-max premise for all it’s worth, while also crafting a sly love letter to the art of filmmaking. What’s on screen unfolds in typical B-movie fashion, while off-screen diversions offer a celebration of the unpredictable and collaborative nature of movie sets. Featuring a hysterically shocked twist Berenice Bejo (The artist) and serving up a quintessential gore-soaked high farce, Final Cut revels in its fond embrace of goofy genre fun.

The synopsis for the Japanese version of the film reads: “A small, low-budget film crew is making a zombie horror film in an abandoned water filtration plant, presumably once used for human experiments by the Japanese military. Just as the director intimidates his actors and demands more blood for special effects, a veritable zombie apocalypse breaks out, much to his auteur delight. Packed with meta-film references as mocking as they are loving, this relentless takedown of the Living Dead genre is a blast.

The remake was actually met with decent reviews, but you can just watch the original movie right now on Shudder, which is sure to be the better movie. The remake will be released on July 14th.?