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- IMDb page: Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead (2009)
- Rate: 6.9/10 total 37 votes
- Genre: Comedy | Romance
- Runtime: USA:84 min
- Filming Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
- Director: Ryan Denmark
- Stars: Hannah Kauffmann, Jason Witter and Mark Chavez
- Original Music By: David Manning
- Soundtrack: Dancing Like Lovers
- Plot Keyword: Zombie | Period In Title | Versus In Title | Crossover | Ampersand In Title
- (in alphabetical order)
- Ryan Denmark writer
- William Shakespeare based on his play
- Jason Witter writer
Known Trivia
Plot: When Juliet, of noble Capulet birth, falls madly in love with Romeo, a zombie, the streets of fair Verona explode in an ancient feud… See more » | »
Story: When Juliet, of noble Capulet birth, falls madly in love with Romeo, a zombie, the streets of fair Verona explode in an ancient feud. As the star crossed lovers struggle to overcome the prejudice toward their unholy union, Juliet's best friend Mercutio fights to win her heart back from Romeo's rotting grasp. As this timeless tragedy unfolds into a fresh new comedy, Mercutio finds that he may have to choose between Juliet's happiness and his own life.Written by Third Star Films
FullCast & Crew
Produced By:
- Ryan Denmark known as producer
- Jess Jones known as co-producer
- Jason Witter known as producer
- Hannah Kauffmann known as Juliet
- Jason Witter known as Romeo
- Mark Chavez known as Mercutio
- Kate Schroeder known as Olivia
- Reuben Finkelstein known as Larry
- Kevin R. Elder known as Tybalt
- Malcolm Madera known as Sampson
- Shenoah Allen known as Gregory
- George Bach known as Lord Capulet
- Elsa Menendez known as Lady Capulet
- Ross Kelly known as Paris
- Summer Olsson known as Rosaline
- Andy Brooks known as Lord Montague
- Lucien Sims known as Benvolio
- Katy Houska known as Bobby Jo
- Kristin Hansen known as Sheriff Prince
- Rusty Rutherford known as Zombie Steven
- Doug Montoya known as Nurse
- Chris Allen known as Restaurant Patron
- Devin Antonelli known as Pompous Zombie
- Hakim Bellamy known as ZTV VJ
- Jon Boltz known as News Voice
- Mike Cox known as Smooth Party Guy
- Bette Denmark known as Restaurant Patron
- Jona Denmark known as Zombie Child
- William G. Denmark known as Referee
- June Anne Fannell known as Restaurant Patron
- Peter Fishburn known as Peter
- Aaron Frale known as Carl
- Lee Francis known as Abraham
- Billy Garberina known as Zombie at the Window
- Jess Jones known as Corvette Accessory
- Scott Milder known as Choked Zombie
- Dodie Montgomery known as Restaurant Patron
- Ethan Moya known as Soda Jerky
- Julie Nagel known as Lady Montague
- Devin O'Leary known as Richard
- Jessica Osbourne known as Pompous Zombie
- Shannon Rogers known as Stuck-up Girl
- Lauren Ruska known as Stuck-up Girl
- Brandon Sciarrotta known as Ice Cream Kid
- David Valdez known as Curtis
- Chelsea Weber known as Smooth Party Girl
- Brian Austin Wenrich known as Peracchio
- Leonard Witter known as Pompous Zombie
- Bruce Wong known as Balthasar
Supporting Department
Art Department:- Brian Austin Wenrich known as property master
- William Wenrich known as assistant property master
Other Stuff
Visual Effects by:- Reuben Finkelstein known as visual effects
- David Valdez known as visual effects supervisor
- UK 26 June 2009 (Edinburgh Film Festival)
Filmography links and data courtesy of The Internet Movie Database
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17 Nov 2011, 5:40 am
Like a school play that the kids have put on all by themselves, it's cheap, at times incoherent and crass to the point of being puerile. Yet it's also witty, fast-paced, laugh-out-loud farcical and betrays an endearing knowledge and love of both Shakespeare's play and the late night picture show B-movie horror tradition, mixing some great textual jokes (never bite your thumb at a zombie) with styling and humour in the manner of 1980s horror classics like Night of the Creeps, Reanimator and Basketcase.
Supposedly set in fair Verona (that is, interspersing stock shots of the Italian city with footage that looks as if it was shot in a university halls of residence) the film sees our heroine Juliet (Hannah Kaufmann) fall for the unlikely charms of zombie Romeo (Jason Witter), and well, you know the story really. Although you probably won't predict the happy ending – Shakespeare's director's cut perhaps.
Sure, the joke is stretched a little thin by the end, but the general over-enthusiastic, bargain basement mayhem of the plot and 'effects' (for which read joke shop face-paint and strawberry sauce blood) and the irrepressible exuberance of the actors (particularly Juliet and Reuben Finkelstein's Elvis-esquire Father Larry) make it impossible to dislike this film, even if you are sober. Throw in a classic '80s soundtrack (never before has Lita Ford's 'Kiss Me Deadly' sounded so apt) and you have a rom-zom-com that's destined to become a drunken late night drunken DVD favourite as surely as our star-crossed lovers were destined to meet.