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STRANGE TIMES: A Word With Actor And Fight Coordinator Mark Strange

Much is ado these days for UK director Chee Keong Cheung. His latest segue into action horror with zombie thriller, Redcon-1, is well underway in its campaign after a peculiar PR rollout which, as far as I know, began in Japan (as indicated by a Japanese captioned trailer I learned of over the summer). A U.S. release still remains pending for the film and time will tell before how much more waiting is needed on that end. In the meantime, the cast has been doing the promo rounds some, including actor, martial artist and producer Mark Strange who, after a heavy week of publicity last week, was able to answer some questions for us ahead of Thursday night’s Raindance premiere. Greetings Mark and thank you for taking the time to discuss a few things with us. How has the year been for you thusfar? This year’s been amazing, my best […]

Zombie Thriller REDCON-1 Kills And Kills Again In The Latest Official Trailer

Lee B. Golden III

Having already seen its way through festivals and with a UK fall date approaching, tickets are now on sale for Underground helmer Chee Keong Cheong’s long awaited military zombie epic, Redcon-1. And it looks absolutely fucking bonkers. A trailer actually went live last month and was actually in Taiwanese and so obviously it wouldn’t have come my way. Such is the nature of independent films with crazy PR handling and so you’re forgiven if you’d been waiting for trailer footage since the film’s production a few years ago. As I said though… this looks fucking bonkers; Shots of undead creatures performing articulate gymastics and kicking techniques are things that you wouldn’t normally expect from a zombie film unless you were watching a award-winning certain turn-of-the-century action horror indie from Kitamura Ryuhei. Alas, it’s definitely part of the narrative here though and it sells pretty well in the trailer, promising an […]

Cheung's Zombie Actioner REDCON-1 Wraps In Time For AFM 2016

Lee B. Golden III

Director Chee Keong Cheung is finally poised to have his latest action horror epic presented at the American Film Market starting next werk. His most recent venture, Redcon-1, is finally in post production as per a recent press release over at Horror-Movies.ca which confirms the film’s wrap and post production following a ten week shoot with up to fifteen hundred extras and locations all over the U.S.. Carlos Gallardo (El Mariachi, Desperado and Once Upon a Time in Mexico) and Kevin Eastman, co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, executive produced the film which centers on a squad of 8 soldiers sent in to the U.K. to tackle combat-conscious zombies and rescue a scientist who might hold the key to ending the undead anarchy. Gallardo joins the cast which also lists Oris Erhuero (The Cursed Ones), Akira Koieyama (Street Fghter: Assassin’s Fist), former WWE/TNA wrestler Katarina Leigh Waters and co-star Mark […]

'El Mariachi' Star Leads UK Action Horror REDCON-1

Lee B. Golden III

It’s been a while since actor Carlos Gallardo prolifically broke out in Robert Rodriguez’s 1992 Mexican spaghetti classic, El Mariachi. Nowadays, and long since starring in several Rodriguez helmers on top of others, you’ll likely find his name popping up a bit more with news now confirming his starring and producing role next to producer Kevin Eastman of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fame for the new sci-fi action horror, Redcon-1. The folks at Epic Pictures have been shopping the film at Cannes marking helmer Chee Keong Cheong’s third turn at the director’s chair since the 2007 martial arts brawler, Underground and Bodyguard: A New Beginning in 2009. The project has been brewing for a few years now up to recent weeks in which filming set course in the U.K., with a story revolving around an octet of Special Forces on a suicide mission to rescue a scientist following a deadly […]