Cuban Zombies Rise In New 'Juan Of The Dead' Movie

By Michael Lopez

It seems like filmmakers never run out of zombie ideas. There were flesh-eating mall shoppers in George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, brain-hungry Brits in Shaun of the Dead, and now Latino grave risers in Juan of the Dead! Yup, Cuba has decided to enter the zombie film circuit too, leaking a trailer of their first "undead" feature.

Judging from the two-minute clip that was released online, Juan has all of the elements you'd expect from a walking corpse flick. There are rotting grannies, skeleton-faced freaks, and even a Thriller-like monster popping out of the ocean!

And who would you expect to save the island from the muerto army? That would be Juan, a deadpan local who specializes in bashing zombie skulls with baseball bats.

Obviously Juan (like Shaun) is going for the humor factor over straight-laced horror, but there are plenty of OMG scares mixed in too. It appears as though Juan is even throwing in a few political messages, with jabs about the Cuban revolution and the "evils" of America.

Look for it to debut in the U.S. later this year.

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