{"id":12994,"date":"2019-12-22T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T20:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/?p=12994"},"modified":"2019-12-22T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T00:08:00","slug":"zach-vasquez-says-dont-forget-one-cut-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/zach-vasquez-says-dont-forget-one-cut-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Vasquez Says Don&#8217;t Forget: <i>One Cut of the Dead<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Of the four zombedies released this year \u2014 also including <em>The Dead Don\u2019t Die<\/em>, <em>Little Monsters<\/em>, and <em>Zombieland: Double Tap<\/em> \u2014 it\u2019s the Japanese import <em><strong>One Cut of the Dead<\/strong><\/em> that breathes new life into the genre of the living dead. A massive success in its home country, the film earned small notice and acclaim stateside, but it deserves so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The set-up is deceptively simple: An independent film crew are shooting a zombie movie at a remote location when they\u2019re set upon by real zombies. To say more would be to ruin the story\u2019s many great surprises (especially since part of the fun comes from figuring them out yourself), but the end result is ingenuous, hilarious, and surprisingly moving. It also contains a jaw-dropping 37-minute single take that actually serves a purpose to the greater story (eat your heart out \u2014 or rather, eat your brains out \u2014 Sam Mendes).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, <em>One Cut of the Dead<\/em> makes for a great triple feature with two of the year&#8217;s other best films, <em>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/em> and <em>Dolemite Is My Name<\/em>, in its focus on lovable losers bravely hauling the burden of the cinematic dreams over seemingly insurmountable obstacles. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"21\" height=\"24\" class=\"wp-image-12642\" style=\"width: 21px;\" src=\"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crookedc.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crookedc.png 21w, https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/crookedc-224x245.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 21px) 100vw, 21px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justwatch.com\/us\/movie\/one-cut-of-the-dead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Availability<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the four zombedies released this year \u2014 also including The Dead Don\u2019t Die, Little Monsters, and Zombieland: Double Tap [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":506,"featured_media":12997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,1381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-looking-back","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crookedmarquee.com\/stage8\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}