In your head they’re still fighting
By Wade Kwon
Redneck zombies are coming to redecorate your living room.
In blood.
“Hide and Creep,” the 2004 horror comedy, will air at 6 p.m. Thursday on Sci Fi. The movie, filmed around Birmingham, premiered at Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival and now makes its television debut.
And I’m telling you this, not because I’m in it as an unpaid extra, and not because I’m paid to do PR for the flick, but because it’s the best redneck zombie horror comedy you’ll ever see.
But don’t take my somewhat biased word for it: Join us at Base Camp on Southside for a viewing party in which the undead shall rise and receive drink specials.
Behind the scenes of ‘Hide and Creep’
In the sleepy town of Thorsby, Alabama, no one had a life. Then the dead showed up. Now instead of just killing time the people of Thorsby are killing each other, taking up arms as the zombies take to the streets, the barbecue joints and the strip bars. Soon spaceships are flying overhead, federal agents are patrolling the grounds and a few fearless individuals are joining forces to run like hell.
A story about the lives we forget to lead, the people we fail to bury properly and the scary-ass creatures we have to eliminate along the way, “Hide and Creep” is a celebration of those who rise to the occasion just when all hope and television reception seem lost. A zombie film with brains, a comedy with boobs, Hide and Creep puts us on the front lines of a backwater town in crisis, giving us a taste of a community starving for action and a murderous horde hungry for human flesh.
How can you miss that? Plus, most of your friends had a hand in putting this movie together. Kudos to Chuck Hartsell and Chance Shirley on their first feature, one that adds to the Birmingham film community legacy. It’s cool to show off local talent to a national audience.
The party begins at 6. Base Camp (formerly the Arena) is located at 1024 20th St. S. Admission is free.
If you can’t make it, tune in to Sci Fi. (The movie re-airs at 10 p.m. June 20.)
And don’t watch it alone. Or sober.
Thanks to NBC 13 for having Chance on to talk about the movie with Gina Redmond.
- The trailer
- What the critics say
- Buy or rent the not-edited-for-TV version
- Make friends with a zombie
- Our buddy Kenn talks about working on the movie, uncomfortably numb
- My life as a zombie
- And the IMDB listing
Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 11:44 pm
Cameo on Mars
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