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Invasion of the Not Quite Dead is a black comedy

Black comedy

A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...

horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

directed by Tony Lane.

Plot

In 1978 a meteorite crash lands into the Swiss Mountains, unleashing a deadly virus. Killing everyone within a 20 mile radius, the incident was covered up by local officials. Now thirty years later the virus is released onto an unsuspecting island off the coast of the UK. A group of survivors must band together in order to survive the death and destruction of the once friendly locals.

Cast

Frank Jakeman as Sam
Sapphire Elia
Sapphire Elia
Sapphire Elia , is an English actress and singer best known for her roles in musical drama Britannia High and the soap opera Emmerdale.-Early and personal life:Sapphire Chrystalla Elia was born on 15 April 1987 in London...

as Alison
Kieran Jones
Kieran Jones
Kieran Jones is 4'1" British Actor and Entertainer who appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 as a goblin.He has also appeared in several Pantomines including performing alongside comedian Tim Vine, Jane Asher, Kevin Sacre and Sapphire Elia....

as Brian
Ajay Nayyar
Ajay Nayyar
Ajay Pratap Singh Nayyar is a British-Indian film, television, and stage actor, producer and director.Ajay featured in two TV shows in 2009, the Fox thriller drama series 24 and the CBS series NCIS and also starred in a feature film titled Rejouer playing the role of a music producer...

as Blade
Chloe Ingamells as Sara
Tony Lane as Hanz
Jonn Blanchard as Billy and Main Soldier 2
Steve Davis
Steve Davis (disambiguation)
-Music:* Steve Davis , jazz bassist.* Steve Davis , American drummer* Steve Davis , Northern Irish drummer* Steve Davis , American jazz trombonist...

as Main Soldier/Gillespie
Katie Phillimore as Soldier 3

Origins

Jan 2007 saw the birth of the INDYWOOD PROJECT, Antony Lane was in his final year of film school when he came up with a crazy unique concept for a ZOMBIE film. Over the course of the next 3 years he dedicated his life into raising awareness for his movie on the internet and began developing the first part to his planned trilogy. Raising money to make a film has to be one of the biggest struggles for any filmmaker, especially when you have no feature film experience and no contacts to open up doors, with his passion and motivation Antony began using the internet to attempt to raise his films budget independently, unfortunately his first FOUR attempts raised very little money, but instead he found that he was able to attract big names to support his project, media for the movie began mounting up and within 2 years of promoting 'INVASION' around the net, a very strong fan base began to evolve.
In 2007, just when the movie seemed to be moving forward Antony was brutally attacked leaving him with a broken bone to his back and making him housebound for several months, his confidence was at an all time low, the films future began to look uncertain... Towards the end of the year Antony had a tough choice ahead of him, to give up on his life long dream of making a feature film or to have one final attempt at setting up a FAN FUNDRAISING site... Luckily he decided to give it one last shot. After several months of planning the new website Antony RE-LAUNCHED his INDYWOOD PROJECT on MAY 1st 2009 with a goal to raise a minimum of £100,000 by selling pre-order producer packages to 3000 horror fans. His original plan was to use the networking site twitter to give people real-time updates on the project. Within a few hours Antony had sold his first 4 pre-order producer packages, it then became apparent that twitter should be his primary fundraising platform to raise money from. In Aug 2009 Antony produced a teaser promo for the project which received its world premier at the Abetoir Horror Festival in November.. The teaser is now scheduled to open a high profile IMAX event
in MAY 2010 which will have cast and crew of 'Harry Potter' in attendance as well as UK LIVING tv.

Filming

Principal filming began in Samokov and Despie in Bulgaria during April 2011 and teaser video has been released, production will move to the UK nearer the end of 2011.

Music

Invasion of the Not Quite Dead includes music from Wheatus

Wheatus

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and MC Frontalot

MC Frontalot

Damian Hess , better known by stage name MC Frontalot, is a Brooklyn-based hip hop musician and self-proclaimed "world's 579th greatest rapper". He is best known in nerdcore hip hop and video game culture, for naming the nerdcore subgenre, and performing at Penny Arcades annual Penny Arcade Expo...

Release

As of October 2009 the film is still in pre-production, but a teaser trailer was shown at the Welsh Abertoir

Abertoir

Abertoir is an annual horror and horror film festival held in the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Ceredigion, Wales in November. Currently in its sixth year, the festival began as a 3-day event and has grown since to its current 6-day schedule. Abertoir is currently Wales' only horror festival and is a...

film festival on November 7, 2009 and a further teaser trailer was released on YouTube after the principal filming in April 2011.

The film is expected to be released in 2012.

Marketing

The film has been entirely funded by social network crowd-sourcing. In essence the films greatest marketing has been in its unique (for its time) funding methodology. Antony Lane's primary marketing tool has been Twitter and as well as fund raising he has executed several 'Twitterthons' whereby he has stayed awake for extended periods of time just fund raising on twitter.

Trivia

Steve Davis
Steve Davis (disambiguation)
-Music:* Steve Davis , jazz bassist.* Steve Davis , American drummer* Steve Davis , Northern Irish drummer* Steve Davis , American jazz trombonist...

performed his own stunts, including driving a car nose first over a 3 ft drop.
Chloe Ingamells the star of the intro was also the main makeup artist for the intro shoot - she stepped in when the actor who was originally going to be the lead failed to turn up at the airport.
Jessica Snyder created all the costumes in the intro, including the 70s wedding outfits worn by Sara and Billy, the costumes for the various extras and the Soldiers.
Tony Lane used several camera during the shoot, the main footage was taken in HD using a Canon 5D MKII - but there was also a 7D and a couple of 550D's.
The main car used in the intro shoot was a Wartburg 1.3, the starter was broken and it only had 2 working gears. Every time it was used it had to be push started by members of the crew. Chloe Ingamells christened the car Annie and got so attached to it she couldn't watch when it was destroyed.
The various cars seen abandoned during shooting were rented from a scrap metal dealer. Most of them still worked though.

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