This is a documentary style feature which takes Zombie fan and French filmmaker Nicolas Garreau to Pennsylvania to find memorable filming locations featured in George Romero's classic Dead series. We get to see footage of encounters with famous stars such as Ken Foree, David Emge as well as some of the more famous zombies from throughout the trilogy. This feature whilst perhaps not the best docu-style production I've ever seen is actually filmed quite well. Don't expect a National Geographic/Discovery channel style documentary, this is very much a low budget fly on the wall deal.

Clearly this is very much a personal endeavour for Nicolas and it shows through his enthusiasm whilst walking in the footsteps of where all the classic characters once took a stand against the zombie hordes. Nicolas provides continual narration as to the progress of his journey (pilgrimage) from one location to another. I found that a lot of the information provided to be quite interesting and found out some things about the Dead series that I never knew (me being a fan myself).

There are also some accidental comical moments, such as Nicolas's friends attempting zombie impressions, (these are always done best after a bottle of whisky I find ;)) this brings a lot of good levity to the feature.

Let me say that if you are not interested in the Dead series then you will not enjoy Fan of the Dead what so ever. This flick is very much intended for fans of the trilogy. It was cool to see David Emge again (and man he looks different now from 30 years ago) as well as the words and opinions of the zombie extras. In the end I would say anyone wanting to hear and see a little bit more of the dead series could do a lot worse than checking this one out.

Note: Fan of the Dead can be found as a special feature on the UK 2010 Arrow release of Dawn of the Dead.

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