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Director: Rodrigo
Aragao
Forget the urban settings of your Apart from the setting, this film
Runtime: 105mins
typical low-budget zombie flick, the doesn’t break as much ground as
Year: 2008
first-ever Brazilian effort takes you to the zombies do, however, for a low-
country: brazil
the hot, sweaty mangrove swamps of budget movie that doesn’t always Language: Brazilian/
the remote state of Espirito Santo. take it self too seriously, it does offer
English subtitles
Format: Digibeta
zombie and gore fans something
Here, the people of this poor
source:one eyed
special, which is – how the hell did Films
community eke out an existence
they get the amputations to look so
fishing and pulling crabs out of the
real on such a low budget, without
mud, but pollution and progress
resorting to effects from the Troma
have been killing off the once
school of filmmaking?
abundant swamplands. Some of the
older people believe the land has
become cursed and haunted, and
they are soon proved right as the
undead start to rise from the mud
and attack the village with their
insatiable hunger for human flesh
and blood. The film’s hero is a rather
timid man who has fallen in love
with daughter of one of the village
leaders, but when the zombies start
to attack he finds the courage, and
a machete, to try and save himself
and the girl.
THE 8
TH
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