Back in February we heard about a little monster mash called PERROS MUERTOS (aka DEAD DOGS); it’s been quiet on that front ever since, but now we have a slight update on where the film stands, via Variety. Oddly enough, it doesn’t seem like it’s been made yet, although it’s still in the cards.
In PERROS MUERTOS, a small-time juvenile gangster, Cocacolo, flees south with his gang after a Barcelona bank heist. Double-crossed and abandoned in the middle of nowhere, he join forces with a Spanish family to battle a zombie outbreak, sparked by the locals’ consumption of adulterated rapeseed oil.
Produced by Spanish producer Antonia Nava and directed by Koldo Serra (BACKWOODS), PERROS MUERTOS is said to play like FROM DUSK TILL DAWN meets a 70s Spanish B-movie. A teaser will screen at the Catalan Screenings in Paris, which runs Nov. 18-19. Hard to tell at the moment if it’s a teaser made from the film itself, or a specially made one.
Vertice has acquired Spain’s distribution rights. Barcelona-based label Nava Ent. will produce with Telespan 2000 and Sayaka Producciones. The budget is around E4 million ($5.6 million).
Virginie Ledoyen, from Serra’s BACKWOODS
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