Kino Lorber is obliging horror comedy fans with the official trailer of zombie romp, Final Cut. The film is a French remake of Shin’ichirô Ueda’s hit flick, One Cut Of The Dead, which at one point was the subject of English-language remake announced back in 2019 which may or may not be a thing, depending on those involved.
At any rate, Ueda’s film and the reincarnation from Michel Hazanavicius have both had their share of ceremony. Kino Lorber has since acquired the rights to the film as of January, and is now poised to release the film in a progressive rollout at select cities beginning July 14.
Final Cut stars Romain Duris, Bérénice Bejo, Matilda Lutz, Grégory Gadebois, and Finnegan Oldfield.
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.
