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Escaping the Dead" is inspired by a series of articles about the deathdrug
"Krokodil" that was published about the same period of time when Ronald Poppo
had his face eaten by a naked man hooked on bathsalt in Miami. It is the perfect
zombie plot: a deathdrug that turns people into zombies.
The film has its starting point in a typical day for the lead character,
David. David is the local marihuana pusher, but he is the kind of dealer that
smokes more than he sells. In themeantime the country has been hit by a new
deathdrug and when David and his partner in crime Ahmir is offered some
exceptionally cheap cocaine they see it as an opportunity to earn big money at
the big techno concert the following Friday, but the cocaine turns out to have a
terrible side effect that creates a giant zombie outbreak that spreads acrossthe
entire Copenhagen. In the film we follow David and his bloody fight out of the
city.
Directed by Martin Sonntag and Bastian Brinch Pedersen, the film stars
Bastian Brinch Pedersen (who is also the co-director and producer of the film)
as David, Rama Øzel as Ahmir, along with Dorte Rømer ("Breaking the Waves") and
Kim Sønderholm ("Cannibal Fog", "Run", "House of Many Sorrows") playing Lars the
policeman. Recently Lone Fleming, legendary horror actress from the "Blind Dead"
series and Danish origin joined the cast to play Davids mother.
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3334746/
