Final Cut

The opening-night selection of last year’s Cannes Film Festival was this wacky horror comedy, a remake of Shin’ichirô Ueda’s cult hit One Cut of the Dead. It follows a director (Romain Duris, L’Auberge Espagnole) making a live, single-take, low-budget zombie flick in which the cast and crew, one by one, actually turn into zombies. Oscar® winner Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) milks the film’s hilarious and 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 cheesy B-movie fashion, while the off-screen hijinks offer a celebration of the unpredictable and collaborative nature of film sets. Featuring a hysterically unhinged turn by Oscar® nominee Berenice Bejo (The Artist) and serving up blood-soaked high farce par excellence, Final Cut revels in its affectionate embrace of goofy genre fun.

“An entertaining piece of work that may yet have found a way to breathe new life into the zombie genre itself.” — The Guardian

“In its own particular and seriously deranged way, Final Cut is as much a valentine to the act of filmmaking as Hazanavicius’ Oscar-winning film The Artist was.” — The Wrap

''Clever and giddily entertaining. A gory pleasure.'' — The Hollywood Reporter

Opening Night - Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection - Tribeca Film Festival
Escape from Tribeca - A Psychotronic Sidebar
Official Selection - Fantastic Fest
Official Selection - Sitges Film Festival
Nominated, Best Screenplay — César Awards