• Submitted by: manso
• Arts and Culture
• 12 / 06 / 2010

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Reuters. GRACE MILLIMACI, The West Australian December 6, 2010, 9:01 am. Jazz Vila, left, and Senia Veigas in Juan de los Muertos in Havana. Onlookers would be forgiven for thinking Havana has been taken over by freaks, but they are actually actors filming Juan de los Muertos - Juan of the Dead.

In the film, flesh-eating zombies hit Cuba and lazy 40-year-old Juan and his dumb, but faithful friend Lazaro decide to make some money out of the carnage.

The movie is the first zombie flick ever shot in post-revolutionary Cuba, according to reports.


Juan of the Dead is the second film by 34-year-old writer-director Alejandro Brugues, who wanted to tell an authentically Cuban story - but within the logic of a camp zombie flick, The Associated Press said.

Brugues said Cubans had a knack for making ends meet and even had a saying for how they would overcome constant hurdles: "I'll invent something."

"We Cubans have had to deal with a whole series of problems in the last 50 years," he said."We have become accustomed to resolving problems on our own and finding a way to survive. So I was thinking, how would a Cuban survive a zombie epidemic?"

Source: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/8456535...