Farming Out The Dead
Farming Out The Dead
By: Greg Goodsell / Bakotopia.com contributos
Description: I was killed at the “Zombie Farm” - and I lived to tell the tale! Special screening at The Spotlight Nov. 11!
Topics: Zombie Farm, zombie, Bakersfield, movie, Bakotopia, spotlight theatre, downtown, November, 2007, Screening, arts, Culture, blog
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Farming Out The Dead
I was killed at the “Zombie Farm” - and I lived to tell the tale! Special screening at The Spotlight Nov. 11!
By Greg Goodsell, Bakotopia.com Contributor
One pleasant Sunday afternoon this past February, I decided to take a drive more than 120 miles to a home in Santa Ana.
Warmly greeted by total strangers, I took a spot at the back yard patio and waited for further instructions. I was there that day for a most singular purpose: to be brutally murdered, and have my demise recorded on film.
The film at hand was “Zombie Farm,” a new pell-mell monster comedy in the manner of Shaun of the Dead. The dead return to cannibalistic life, the surviving humans take arms and dispatch the ghouls with guns and axes, limbs are lopped off and blood gushes freely, all of it very severed-tongue-in-cheek.
By e-mail, I had learned that part of Zombie Farm was to be shot in Visalia. An open casting call went out for those willing to don makeup and join the ranks of the shuffling undead. I was unable to make it that time. However, thanks to a very rare open spot in my schedule, I discovered that some pick-up shots that Sunday were going to be shot at executive producer Vince Lara’s home. Having some other business to attend to in the Southland, I arrived wearing a blue jumpsuit (the casting call said to “dress hicky”) for my chance at stardom.
As it turned out, all of my scenes take place at a barbecue where some ill-fated picnickers guzzle contaminated lemonade and beer and transform into zombies.
Director Brian Barsuglia instructed me to slurp some lemonade for a tight close-up of the tainted yellow liquid going through my moustache. After a few deft touches of an on-set makeup artist, I was transformed into a pasty-faced ghoul.
Brian then filmed me and a few other fellow ghouls munching on some unfortunate victim by the rotisserie. Then came my death scene: thanks to some hidden tubing concealed in my jumpsuit and a bicycle tire pump, great geysers of blood red gore come cascading all over the camera lens.
Given a bucket of sudsy water and a rag to wash my makeup off in a nearby garage, I told Lara that we’ll stay in touch. And indeed we do … “Zombie Farm” has become something of a national phenomenon. Quite unlike other low-budget horrors that go straight to DVD or cable, the producers of “Zombie Farm” have a commitment to putting their gory wares before a live, theatrical audience.
And furthermore, they encourage their audience to yell back at the screen!
To date, Zombie Farm has unspooled in front of enthusiastic crowds in San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Denver.
“Not since The Rocky Horror Picture show have I seen an audience embrace a B movie with such irreverence and enjoyment like they did the night I got to see ‘Zombie Farm,’” wrote an enthused reviewer at Influx magazine. The review goes on to declare it “a hell-bound hayride of absurdity.”
With a tenuous local connection via yours truly, it was an inevitable that Zombie Farm would eventually play Bakersfield. And indeed it shall - Sunday, November 11 at the Spotlight Theatre at 1622 19th Street at 7 p.m.!
The film is not rated, but it has extreme comic book gore, although a screening is unlikely to inspire any dead bodies to suddenly reanimate and go on the prowl for flesh.
An awful lot of the humor is also topical, and not politically correct, and so “Zombie Farm” can’t be recommended to viewers without a sense of humor. But if you yearn for some cheap, gory unbridled fun, a trip the “Zombie Farm” should be high on your list of things to do.
And look for yours truly - my onscreen credit is listed as “Mr. Jumpsuit!”
Catch 'Zombie Farm'
at The Spotlight Theatre!
• Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007
• 1622 19th St. - DOWNTOWN
• 8 p.m. / $5
• All ages, BUT parental discretion is advised.
Zombie Farm, The Movie
Official Website
Official Website
*Originally printed in Bakotopia Magazine issue 14, 11 - 2 - 07
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