What is your goal. To scare, gore, slap stick Army of Darkness type stuff. The idea of working with the undead is always fun. You must think of who the girl, is how the girl and hero are connected. Also the girl strength should be the hero's weakness in order to leave the possiblity of a twist of some sort. Give a little more info and I think I could possible have some ideas for you.

I really love the idea a zombie movie and the fact your looking at george romero. As an idea, stick with survior horror theme. Try to create a sense of certain death for your main characters. To be honest and reply to the question, the idea of a teleporting zombie might lean towards some alien type thing and go off genre. If your trying to take bits and pieces from george, scrap the teleporting thing. Instead their special ability can be the simple act of running. A running zombie is alot more harder to escape from and kill. But overall I like your idea. What will be the zombies weakness?

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Make the scream queen the hero of the story and have the square jawed fellow killed early on after he tries to fight the zombies. This can show the peril the sceam queen is in if her tough square-jawed boyfriend goes down quickly. He can then be added to the zombies chasing her.

Filmed right you can reuse zombies so it looks like you have more than you really do. She looks one way and sees five zombies shambling around the corner. Looks the other way and sees four zombies coming from that direction. Third direction there is only one zombie. She picks up the shovel and runs towards the single zombie. Just be careful in using the square-jawed zombie as he'll be more recognizable.

Forget the teleporting idea as it goes too far outside the zombie genre for a 10 minute film to adequetely deal with.

hey, we have just started our zombie movie aswell (still in scripting) but for tips, dont make it to gorey, also be careful with backgrounds you never know, in the original dawn of the dead there is traffic in the background when they are getting the semi's to the doors. and try to keep suspense allways biting at the audience.

Thats ironic...

Regarding the gore. YOu might want to shoot the scenes twice, one with gore and one without. That way you at least have options in the editing room and you can show your parents one version and your friends the other.

I would ignore the gore myself because it's complicated and brings up a different emotion than fear and horror. It sickens. Sometimes that is what you want, but generally I think tension and fear is better. See Hitchcock, Alfred for details.

Listen you stupid moronic ******. Zombies cannot teleport, and in doing so in your movie it makes you look like a dumb ass. I hope satan rains down your throat with hot acid turning your intestines into snakes. Do us all a favor and dont wate ten minutes of our lives with your stupid scifi bullshit.

I've seen zombies talk, run, die only with headwounds, die only with heartwounds, not die no matter what. I've seen them created by voodoo, by toxic waste, by a virus, and by a Venusian probe returned to Earth. I would rather enjoy a movie with 'different' zombies, even one that can teleport, than deal with another overly romanticized Vampire movie, thank you very much.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

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