Here's a press release I received recently for the Danish film Escaping The Dead. I'll add in the trailer at the end of the release.
"Escaping the Dead" is inspired by a series of articles about
the deathdrug "Krokodil" that was published about the same period of
time when Ronald Poppo had his face eaten by a naked man hooked on
bathsalt in Miami. It is the perfect zombie plot: a deathdrug that turns
people into zombies.
The film has its starting point in a typical day for the lead
character, David. David is the local marihuana pusher, but he is the
kind of dealer that smokes more than he sells. In the meantime the
country has been hit by a new deathdrug and when David and his partner
in crime Ahmir is offered some exceptionally cheap cocaine they see it
as an opportunity to earn big money at the big techno concert the
following Friday, but the cocaine turns out to have a terrible side
effect that creates a giant zombie outbreak that spreads across the
entire Copenhagen. In the film we follow David and his bloody fight out
of the city.
Directed by Martin Sonntag and Bastian
Brinch Pedersen, the film stars Bastian Brinch Pedersen (who is also the
co-director and producer of the film) as David, Rama Øzel as Ahmir,
along with Daniel Hutera, Ali Öezkan, Iben Ma Bønnelycke, Nicolai Huan
Nguyen, Camilla Ludvigsen and Kim Sønderholm ("Blood Fare", "The
Winedancers", "Sinister Visions") playing Lars the policeman.
The attached picture is a still picture
taken from the film showing Bastian Brinch Pedersen and Kim Sønderholm,
being exhausted from escaping a horde of zombies and having finally
found a safe resting place. Or is it?
