11/5/2022 0 Comments Regular show the movie ending![]() ![]() Their shows The Guild and Legend of Neil are not just funny and ingenious, but they were made on shoestring budgets with their mates, and that led us to say hang on, we can do that too! We started putting out episodes on YouTube monthly, and it built from there. We were among the first wave of UK web series to really take off: we were taking our cue from our US heroes like Felicia Day and Sandeep Parikh, who are fans of Zomblog, which is something we've always been very grateful for. We went to see things like Rec and Cloverfield and talked about how much we love The Blair Witch Project and other terrific found footage films, and so the web series idea started brewing. ![]() I made some no-budget films with friends (including Tony, who I met while we worked at the cinema in York), and we started talking about our love of zombie films. It started as a series and gained a cult following? ![]() And that's what made me start to make movies. And then Shaun of the Dead came out and nailed it: I was 29, the same age as Shaun when it came out, and it hit me hard. So we couldn't help imagining what kind of apocalypse scenarios we, ourselves, could survive and what we'd do in those circumstances. I think it comes from having a deep, deep obsession with Romero's Dawn of the Dead! And I was so happy when Edgar Wright's seminal TV series Spaced had the zombie episode because that show completely highlighted the obsessive effect films, TV, and games have had on our generation. How does one go about reinventing this popular genre, one many of us are so fond of? We sat down with Miles to ask all those burning questions we zombie-mad fans have about this lovable, often gory style of horror. Scheduled for release next year, it's just the kind of silly madness we need after nearly two whole years of lockdowns and restrictions. It's the ideal mix for this side of horror, one that has a legion of loyal fans worldwide. You could say it's a glorious mishmash of Shaun of the Dead with a note of excruciating mockumentaries like Borat and What We Do in the Shadows. Written and directed by Hannah Bungard, Tony Hipwell, and Miles Watts, Zomblogalypse is a charming parody of budget filmmaking – of which the trio will be all too familiar with – as well as a comedy about zombies, and thankfully the slow-shuffling kind (at least, initially). ![]()
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