HAVANA — What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?
If you were the hero of “Juan de los Muertos” (“Juan of the Dead”), the first zombie flick ever shot in post-revolutionary Cuba, you’d figure out how to make some cash out of the carnage.
Part horror show, part social satire, the soon-to-be-shot movie has a $2.1 million budget that dwarfs most big-screen offerings from the island. It is the second film by 34-year-old writer-director Alejandro Brugues, who said his idea was to tell a story that was authentically Cuban. He plans to release in spring or summer.
He insists the film is not political.
“I want people to have a good time at the theater,” Brugues says. “And I promise liters and liters of blood.”
