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Two prisoners wake up one morning. When they look out of their prison cell, they discover everyone else in the cell block has become zombies. Now, they're forced to make a choice: stay safe in their prison cell, and eventually starve, or attempt escape and risk getting eaten by a horde of hungry zombies.
Cell Block Z was written by Jeffery Bucchino. You can visit the movie's Facebook page.
I know the idea of living inside a prison during the zombie apocalypse has been done before. However, since prisons are (obviously) designed to prevent people from easily entering and leaving, I do want to know how the creators of Cell Block Z will explain how the zombie infection spread to the prison population and the staff.
If the zombie virus is spread by the bodily fluids of a zombie, then it would make more sense for the zombie to have been someone who routinely spends long periods of time inside the prison. The person would need enough time to die, turn into a zombie, and then find one or more people to infect. Perhaps it was a sick staff member who couldn't miss a day of work or new prisoner who was sick?
Alternatively, the zombie could virus lay dormant inside the host's body, and only activate once the host dies. I do have a problem with this scenario. How long does the reanimation process take? Is it fast enough that the body reanimates before it's moved from the prison to the morgue? That's something else I want the creators of Cell Block Z to explain. The KickStarter summary of Cell Block Z seems to imply there were no zombies inside the prison before bedtime. The wait time between death and reanimation seems to be only a few hours at most. If the staff knew people inside the prison were ill before bedtime, maybe they didn't know what was really happening until it was too late.
Jeffery Bucchino uploaded a trailer and a teaser to his YouTube page. The trailer has a zombie eating a piece of bloody flesh while voices of news reports of the zombie apocalypse play in the background. The teaser is in black and white. A zombie reaches between the bars of a prison cell. News reports of the zombie apocalypse play in the background. You can watch both of them below.
I find the black and white teaser creepier than the trailer. Flesh-eating zombies have become very much the norm in the horror genre. The unknown hand reaching around the corner scares me more than actually seeing a zombie eating raw flesh. Is the hand a zombie reaching for its next meal? Or, is it something more spooky?
Campaign Deadline: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 1
Release Date: Planned for September 2016 (United States).
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