Zombie Call In Smyrna For Indie Monster Flick

April 14, 2009 4:00 PM 8 comments

We think that our buddies over at the Tennessean would get along well with Zombie Craigslist Dude, with their recent declarations “ZOMBIES WILL CLOSE SMYRNA STREET” and “CALLING ALL ZOMBIES.” And by “get along well with Zombie Craigslist Dude,” we mean that they’re probably the reason that he’s planning a war on terrorist zombies. Alarming headlines aside, there is actually an open casting call for an independent monster movie that apparently needs a bunch of zombie extras. We have to wonder, does the director know what he’s getting himself into?

The Tennessean has this to say:

Aspiring actors and/or armies of the undead are invited to report to Smyrna later this month, where the director of a new monster movie is holding an open casting call for zombie extras.

Would-be zombies will attend a Zombie Class at 119 Front St. in Smyrna from 7-8 a.m. on April 26. There, the extras will learn the ways of the undead: shambling around, groaning, fighting, devouring the brains of the living, and so forth.

Then it’s on to makeup and then off to downtown Smyrna, where the movie will be shooting at the corner of 2nd Street and Jefferson Avenue until 2:30 p.m.

The movie in question is Dead Start, directed by George Demick.

So let’s see if we have this straight. A class to learn how to be a zombie… And a class to learn how to rid the world of zombies. Ahh, Nashville. You make us smile yet again.

Photo by simply steve.

  • http://www.jeremyhoward.com jermscentral

    I don't get it. What is with hipsters and zombies? Maybe it's because I'm a few years younger than them and find absolutely nothing hilarious or entertaining about zombies, but this is one fad I will be happy to see drop off into oblivion, and the sooner, the better.

    Hipsters: You don't need THAT much attention. We already see you in your fedoras, scarves, sport coats, and big, black-framed glasses.

  • as

    Jacka$$

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  • psycho

    jermscentral you really should deal with your own insecurities rather than slam people (hipsters) who are comfortable being themselves.

  • http://www.jeremyhoward.com jermscentral

    To “as”:
    So because you have no valid argument for a response, you resort to name-calling?

    To “psycho”:
    It's not about insecurities. I'd even venture to say that most hipsters aren't comfortable being themselves… which is why they conform to that genre. It helps them feel like they “fit in” to society.

  • psycho

    I don't think the hipster fashion has anything to do with the whole zombie genre, though – I think for some reason that movie monster is just more accessible today than your traditional vampire/frankenstein/werewolf creatures. I don't see it as a fad – the fad that will fade away is the torture porn style movies (saw) that are so popular right now. Zombies have been around since the 30's (White Zombie, Bela Lugosi) and flourished ever since Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Zombies are here to stay, like em or love em.

  • wolfdragon

    Jermscentral, I was a zombie and I am not a hipster. The set was full of goths, horror fans, zombie fans, and people who just wanted to have fun. You would find the same type of people at a Ren. Fair or Star Trek convention. Age has nothing to do with it, my dad and I both went. Quit slamming people for having fun and go out and have some of your own.

  • psycho

    I don't think the hipster fashion has anything to do with the whole zombie genre, though – I think for some reason that movie monster is just more accessible today than your traditional vampire/frankenstein/werewolf creatures. I don't see it as a fad – the fad that will fade away is the torture porn style movies (saw) that are so popular right now. Zombies have been around since the 30's (White Zombie, Bela Lugosi) and flourished ever since Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Zombies are here to stay, like em or love em.

  • wolfdragon

    Jermscentral, I was a zombie and I am not a hipster. The set was full of goths, horror fans, zombie fans, and people who just wanted to have fun. You would find the same type of people at a Ren. Fair or Star Trek convention. Age has nothing to do with it, my dad and I both went. Quit slamming people for having fun and go out and have some of your own.