COLIN

Small money, big scare

For those looking for a tantalising midnight movie, forget the standard Rocky Horror attraction: come to our midnight special screening and German premiere of COLIN instead, a zombie movie produced on an astonishing shoestring budget of 45£ but so brilliantly shot that it will prove to be just as much fun, if not more. Furthermore, we will have the pleasure to welcome lead actor Alastair Kirton at the screening!

Told from the point of view of a zombie, COLIN follows our hero, Colin (Alastair Kirton) as he gets bitten and returns as one of the undead to the suburbs in the midst of an apocalypse. Rather than merely throwing out blood and gore, autodidact first time filmmaker Marc Price from Swansea also engages our emotions and makes Colin a believable character whose experiences gradually win our sympathy. Combined with a “broad daylight zombie versus human street battle” and an “epic housebound siege”, Colin becomes even more irresistable.

Marc Price relied on unpaid acting and make-up contribution from friends and acquaintances and allegedly spent money only on a crowbar and some tapes. So how did this movie of meagre means manage to shine among the many other movies at this year’s Cannes? Come and find out.

COLIN: November, 14 - midnight - Babylon