After coming together again and again since the 2000s, initially just to make short films, one day François Simard, Anouk Whissell and Yoann-Karl Whissell finally got the chance to make one of them their first feature film. And so, in 2015, ‘T Is For Turbo’ eventually became ‘Turbo Kid’ – an apocalyptic adventure that was celebrated at several film festivals, received numerous awards and offered a glimpse into an exciting future for the directing trio. Now that future reveals a new potential highlight.
Five years after their last film together – “Summer of ’84”, which is based on small-town adventures such as “Stranger Things”, “Stand By Me” or “ET” – the trio’s latest work is now released: After “We are zombieswas already shown at the Fantasy Filmfest in 2023, the zombie splatter fireworks will finally be released for home cinema on May 16. Fully unabridged with FSK 18:
Anyone who missed the film at last year’s FFF will soon have the chance to see with their own eyes what the makers of “Turbo Kid” have in store this time. Distributor Capelight Pictures is celebrating the home theater release with a Limited Collector’s Edition including Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray – in which the film includes Dolby Vision and HDR10 and is delivered in an elegant media booklet including booklet. Standard versions of the individual media may follow at a later date, but further details are not yet known. Of course you can also purchase the film directly at the Capelight Pictures store*.
“We Are Zombies”: Even George A. Romero loved the original
“We Are Zombies” is based on the internationally known name ‘The Zombies That Ate the World’* well-known graphic novel or comic book series by none other than the ancestor of the zombie George A. Romero (“Night of the Living Dead”, “Dawn Of The Dead”) was described and celebrated as “amazing”. became. In addition to the filmmaker, who died in 2017, other horror greats are also enthusiastic about ‘We Are Zombies’, including ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ creator Tobe Hooper.
Will the film adaptation be able to live up to the high expectations? You will soon be able to see exactly that for yourself. In any case, you should be prepared for a bloody spectacle that has rightly earned the FSK 18 rating, as the above image from the film suggests.
That’s what ‘We Are Zombies’ is about
As ‘people with disabilities’, as zombies are now politically correctly called, they have long been part of society. The walking undead aren’t that popular, though; After all, they damage the cityscape, take away jobs from the living as cheap labor and slowly but surely cause overpopulation.
When one day the mega-corporation Coleman decides to remedy the situation and collect moldy relatives to donate them to science, Karl (Alexandre Nachi), Freddy (Derek Johns) and Maggie (Megan Peta Hill) sense the opportunity of a lifetime : they come before the official collections, collect the money and sell the donations to dubious buyers…