One Cut of the Dead

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One Cut of the Dead

2019

1h 36m

Comedy

Horror

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Real zombies attack a hack director and a film crew who are shooting a low budget zombie film in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility.

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Brainy and bloody in equal measure, One Cut of the Dead reanimates the moribund zombie genre with a refreshing blend of formal daring and clever satire.

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Elisabeth Vincentelli

New York Times

12/25/2019

Ueda... manages to reinvigorate two of the most tired tropes cluttering our media landscape: art as meta commentary on art, and explosive diarrhea.

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Richard Whittaker

Austin Chronicle

09/26/2019

3.5/5

One Cut of the Dead isn't just charming. It's an earnest and funny love letter to all the microbudget dreamers who use all their heart and ingenuity to make their movie.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

09/13/2019

2.5/4

You have to want to invest in his characters in order for One Cut of the Dead to really take off.

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Bryce Hanson

Horror Movie Talk

Nov 5

9/10

[...]It ends up being an ode to all the reasons why people love low budget zombie movies. The quick and dirty storytelling, the fun action, the over the top special effects, and the ingenuity displayed in the filmmaking.

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Megan Seling

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

10/21/2024

The less you know going into this masterpiece, the better. If you’re going to watch a zombie movie, watch this zombie movie...

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Paul Kanieski

KSQD Community Radio

07/26/2023

One of the smartest, funniest, and sweetest zombie movies you will ever see.

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blue F

@Eqvs12321 Feb 25

Keep watching, you will not regret it

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Nick V

@elZombie Jan 22

There must be some sort of meme conspiracy to boost this movies rating. No, it doesn't 'get better', No you shouldn't 'stick it out'. This may well be the worst movie I've ever seen let alone the worst zombie movie I've ever seen. Utterly painful to watch and the 'payoff' was just as painful as the setup I truly cannot understand what the appeal here is. There's absolutely nothing 'clever' about it it's plain stupid AF. The movie is a bad f****** meme, period.

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Rachel P

@RT36867162 Nov 3

Best horror comedy in years!!!

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Eison S

@RT09517245 Sep 29

crappy movie crappy acting. how is this number one on the list?

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Jace T

@CineChamber Aug 2

So when my fiancé and I started watching this, we were like "wtf?", but by the end of the movie I had a different "wtf" of "why's this fantastic?" This movie is so meta I had no idea what was going on for the first third, but the film just keeps getting deeper, and deeper into it's brilliance as it goes on. This is a must watch, and one of the best mockumentaries around.

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Anne T

@RT64965522 Jul 17

Go in blind!!!! Don’t read the plot or spoilers! It’s a fun watch and an even better recommend

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Shinichiro Ueda

Director

Takayuki Hamatsu

Director Higurashi

Yuzuki Akiyama

Chinatsu

Harumi Shuhama

Nao

Kazuaki Nagaya

Ko

Hiroshi Ichihara

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Synopsis

Real zombies attack a hack director and a film crew who are shooting a low budget zombie film in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility.

Director: Shinichiro Ueda
Producer: Koji Ichihashi
Screenwriter: Shinichiro Ueda
Distributor: Shudder
Production Co: Enbu Seminar, Zombie a Go-Go Films, Panpokopina
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 13, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $52.4K
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital