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4th Reich is looking like one freaky ass movie, thanks to the filmshaft we have a interview with the director Director Shaun R. Smith. The film’s particulars can be read at the Zombie Site brainsbrainsbrains.

How did The 4th Reich project start for you?

Well, I can take you right back to the beginning if you want me to? (Laughs)

Sure…

I did a student film in 1998 which was a thirty-five minute story set in Vietnam and it was about disease experiments. I was watching a lot of (films) Hamburger Hill, Apocalypse Now and lots of zombie films and wanted to match the two together. The story evolved over 12 years and because I knew more about the Second World War, I decided to set the story then.

What kind of mood is the 4th Reich going to have? Will it be a hardcore zombie horror or will there be humour involved?

I’ve kind of gone on record and said it’s going to be the mother of all zombie films. Which it is! I want to make the world’s first truly terrifying zombie film. Zombies are usually used with humour attached, but I want to make the world’s first truly, truly, truly zombie film. On one hand it’s a haunted house film with lots of scares and on the other hand, it’s an all-out gory zombie film and on the third hand, it’s a war film.
Primarily, it’s a war film with horror!

What kind of style are you attempting?

On the one hand we’ve got a war film, so they’ll be a lot of handheld stuff because you can’t really get away from that. It’d look too clean if you had locked-off camera shots. But we have a haunted house thing with lots of set pieces and lots of dark corridors and things jumping from behind doors, so you’ve got so many different styles in there, but I think the look I’m aiming for is classical horror film. A grainy, de-saturated look for the war scenes, but when you get into the research facility it’ll be more like Robert Wise’s The Haunting. So yeah, we’re going for a classic horror look.

Check out http://www.filmshaft.com for more of this interview.