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Filmmakers Launch Campaign for Zombie Apocalypse Comedy

By Hugh Hart  |  January 31, 2012 |  2:59 pm |  Categories: movies

 

They showed up to audition for a commercial about life in 2015, but once Chris Meister and Mike Manship started riffing about turkey calls, bathtub electrocution and the “re-zombification of Dick Cheney,” producer Eric Anderson realized he had a couple of real characters on his hands.

The pair’s goofy rapport, documented in the video clip above, inspired Anderson to write Zompocalypso. The film, which Anderson is looking to finance through an IndieGoGo campaign, will focus on two bumpkin brothers who hole up in a farmhouse equipped with weaponry and a box of stale beans to brace themselves for a zombie attack.

“As I sat there and watched these guys — who had never met each other before that moment, mind you — improv for a half hour about surviving a zombie apocalypse it dawned on me that this could make a very funny film,” Anderson notes on the film’s IndieGoGo page.

Anderson, who will direct the movie, and his wife Amelia Dellos hope to raise $10,000 for their Corn Bred Films production through the site. But no matter how much they raise, the filmmakers plan to bring Meister (on the left in the video above) and Manship (right) to Joplin, Missouri by early summer to begin filming on the backwoods zombie film, which Anderson describes as “an improvised found-footage comedy with a sprinkle of horror… The Blair Witch Project as directed by Christopher Guest.”

Check out a teaser for the film below, then head to the IndieGoGo page to help Anderson and his horde make their zombie apocalypse comedy.

The Countdown is On for the Zompocalypse!

Zompocalypso by CORN BRED FILMS The Mayan calendar tells us we have less than a year left until the world as we know it ends, and a brave new world begins.  No one knows what the new world will look like except, perhaps, our friends Darren and Dale, who plan to spend the next year preparing for the coming storm in hopes of "twarting" the Zompocalypse. Please watch their videos and kick in $5 (or more) to support their efforts. Then please post our link and share this email to give the gift of preparedness to all of the conspiracy theorists and zombie aficionados in your lives (I'm looking at you, Uncle Eddie). << CLICK THIS LINK...IF YOU WANT TO LIVE >> ZOMPOCALYPSO tells the heartwarming story of Darren and Dale (brothers, best friends, and possibly cousins), convinced that the end of the Mayan calendar is about to bring on the "Zompocalypse." The duo retreat to their family's remote farmhouse to await the coming storm. As sh*t begins to get increasingly real, the brothers prepare themselves to become the last known survivors of a brave, new, and possibly undead world.

Introducing: Corn Bred Films

Or re-introducing, depending on whether or not you've noticed us as we've launched over the past few months.  We've decided to start a blog to give friends, fans and colleagues a peek inside our projects, our goals, and our thoughts in the days, weeks, and months ahead.

What is Corn Bred Films? Corn Bred Films is a Chicago-based Motion Picture Production Company committed to discovering, developing and producing films originated by artists living in the Midwestern United States.  We chose the name Corn Bred because a) we're both born and bred Midwesterners and b) we intend to find and nurture projects that originate in the Midwest.  So if you're in Idaho, you're out of luck.  Missouri?  You bet.

Hey, that's us!

If you want to find out more, we invite you to check us out at http://www.cornbredfilms.com.

Hope to see you back here soon!  We'll keep it interesting, or die trying.*

* Odds are, we won't actually die trying.