VID: Let's Go to the Mall (Dawn of the Dead 1978)

[jetpack_monkey]

Title: Let's Go to the Mall
Source: Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Song: Robin Sparkles - Let's Go to the Mall
Warnings: Gore. Muzzle flash. Man's inhumanity to man. Man's inhumanity to zombie.

Summary: OMG! Let's, like, totally engage in a criticism of conspicuous consumption! With zombies! Totally!

Password: sparkles

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Download 30.7MB MP4 file (right/ctrl-click and "Save link as...")

The story behind this one is short and simple, but because I'm me, I'll draw it out a bit. A couple of years ago, my friend qkellie tweeted at me "Why has no one ever set scenes from Dawn of the Dead to Robin Sparkles' Let's Go to the Mall?"

I had just ripped the movie for another project, so I thought, "Why not?"

I had some technical problems making the vid, unfortunately, and some narrative problems and some problem problems. It wasn't coming together smoothly.  So I put it aside, coming back to poke at it here and there when I felt like it.

Then #vidding chat happened. Well, more appropriately, kiki_miserychic  happened. I mentioned I had this vid half-done and she *may* have threatened my continued well-being if I didn't finish it.

I've met kiki_miserychic . I have no doubt she could pull my heart from my chest Temple of Doom style. So I planned to finish it for Club Vivid. Which I did. And you can watch it now.

Thanks to thirdblindmouse who did some beta work on it.

Comments

[jetpack_monkey]

Canada didn't get the zombie apocalypse until, like, the early 1990s. :D