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It Stains the Sands Red
USA 2016
produced by
Brandon Christensen, Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, Bic Tran, Brittany Allen (executive), Marc Milliard (executive) for Digital Interference Productions, Grasswood Media
directed by Colin Minihan
starring Brittany Allen, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir, Kristopher Higgins, Andrew Supanz, Nico David, Michael Filipowich, Dylan Playfair, Warren E. Thomas, Steve Judkins, Max Christensen, Kyle McCachen, Shawn O'Brion, Drew Marvick
written by Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, music by Blitz//Berlin, special makeup effects by Megan Richardson, Ryan Richardson
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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The zombie apocalypse has just hit Las Vegas, but gangster Nick (Merwin
Mondesir) and his coke-addicted and alcoholic girlfriend Molly (Brittany
Allen) have made it out of town just in time to drive to make it to their
friends' airfield and fly to safety ... but then their car gets stuck in
the middle of the desert, Nick gets attacked and killed by a zombie (Juan
Riedinger), and Molly manages to escape only just in time, and now decides
to make it to the airfield, which is another 30 or so miles away, on foot
- as she really lacks other options. Thing is, the zombie's still behind
her. Now this isn't really that much of a problem, as zombies usually walk
slow so she has little problems keeping him at a distance - but that also
means she can never stop walking (which is greatly helped by the coke she
has brought) and can only sleep on precipices where the zombie can't reach
her. On the plus side though, she soon grows attached to the zombie, even
gives him a name, Smalls, and has conversations with him - that work quite
so well because he can't talk back. Plus, just talking to him makes her
understand many things about herself. Also, when a couple of guys
(Kristopher Higgins, Andrew Supanz) who drive by offer to pick her up and
take her to the airfield but then turn out to be escaped convicts and try
to rape her, Smalls saves her - admittedly not intentionally but just by
doing what zombies are used to do and attacking them head on to grab a
piece of meat out of them, but still. So eventually, the two of them
become a pretty good if unlikely team - but of course, Molly can't walk
the desert all the time, she needs food, water, and supplies of all sorts,
but she can't return to civilisation with a zombie ... It
Stains the Sands Red offers a pretty original stab at the rather
over-crowded zombie genre, telling a story that's above all else darkly
humourous but that also has heart and that manages to break the zombie
formula without alienating zombie lovers by going against everything in
the book. And thanks to a pretty compact directorial effort that makes the
most out of its desert locations, and solid performances by its two leads
who manage to actually create some very unlikely chemistry between their
characters, this one turns out to be a really entertaining movie.
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