Kino immer anders
«An independent film crew making a low-budget zombie film encounters real-life zombies on the set. Rather than running for their lives, our fearless director Higurashi (Hamatsu) demands the cast and crew fight off the corps of corpses while capturing it all for their film. (…) One Cut of the Dead offers possibly the freshest take on the zombie film since Night of the Living Dead, evoking the original’s maverick creativity, while also providing the heart and charm so often missing from the modern horror movie.» (Museum of the Moving Image, Jun/Jul 2002)
«Disgusting, hilarious, bewildering, terrifying, and beyond poignant, it combines elements of Marker, Antonioni, and Chaplin without having been obviously influenced by any of them. And it’s a stone-cold, unequivocal masterpiece. But you don’t know this yet. You will know this in twenty years time when we’ve all finally managed to get our heads around it. I just hoped I could be the one who told you this first.» (Jackson Arn, Reverse Shot, Jan 2020)
