Zombie movies can go deeper than the eaten flesh. We've seen social commentary wedged between the shambling (or the running) living dead on film and television before, and now Elijah Wood's SpectreVision is moving forward on Curse the Darkness, a zombie film focusing on the exploited labor force of undocumented workers in the United States. Along with the film's announcement comes its first poster.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jorge Michel Grau (the original We Are What We Are) will direct Curse the Darkness off a script by first-time feature scribe Brandon Maurice Williams. Elijah Wood and fellow SpectreVision operators Daniel Noah and Josh C. Waller will produce the film, which will begin filming in Louisiana on October 27th and is now casting.
Coined as an “anthropological zombie film" by those involved, Curse the Darkness is influenced in part by the grueling, chemical-addled conditions suffered by slaves on Haiti plantations in the early 1800's.
Here's what the producers have to say about the project (via THR):
“[Curse the Darkness is] set against the modern day backdrop of undocumented workers laboring in the Louisiana sugarcane fields, the story is a terrifying look at the systematic exploitation of the labor force by large corporate entities, as well as a portrait of the plight of undocumented workers in the United States.”
We'll keep Daily Dead readers updated on Curse the Darkness as it moves closer to shooting. Below, we have a look at the official poster (courtesy of SpectreVision!):
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
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