PRO WRESTLERS VS. ZOMBIES-2013-The title kind of says it all. Pro wrestler "The Franchise" Shane Douglas (playing himself) accidentally kills an opponent in a match. The dead wrestler's brother (Ashton Amherst) creates a zombie army to kill Douglas and his friends including other real life wrestlers Rowdy Roddy Piper, Facade, Matt Hardy and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Instead of using the usual zombie killing weapons like shotguns and machetes many of the living dead are dispatched with wrestling moves. There's some gory scenes but not as many as I would have expected in this type of craziness. It's mostly the wrestlers fighting the zombies with most of them getting killed. Later Douglas has to fight and kill family members (including his young nephew) who have been "zombified". The acting ranges from ok to pretty bad.
Another pro wrestler Kurt Angle (also the only American to win an Olympic gold medal in wrestling) appears as himself and is turned into a zombie for one fight.
At one point Piper says "This is fucking ridiculous".
The director Cody Knotts (who appears briefly as himself) got initial funding through Kickstarter.
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2 comments:
This was filmed within 45 minutes of my house!
I'm impressed!
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