Comments on: New Zombie Film ‘Colin’ is the Talk of Cannes

By: The Argentine Post » Blog Archive » Horror Film Festival To Spook BA This Week!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:51:33 +0000

[...] the British Indie director Marc Price. The film cost only $70 to produce. Colin turned out to be a surprise smash hit at Cannes. You can see the trailer for Colin [...]

By: Azze.

Azze. — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:42:35 +0000

Your personal opinions don’t make a difference to the general public. If you don’t like it, leave it and ignore it rather than kicking up a fuss like a two year old and making yourself look silly.

By: Dreamworks To Adapt ‘Xombie’? - Screen Rant

Dreamworks To Adapt ‘Xombie’? - Screen Rant — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:54:43 +0000

[...] George A. Romero’s latest, Survival of the Dead; the super low-budget Cannes hot topic, Colin; and THR tells of another Dreamworks project called Rainbow’s Bridge, a remake of a Japanese [...]

By: superD

superD — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:04:38 +0000

$70 they say and a year and a half working on it? Add in the pizzas and refreshments the director bought for his friends over that time and the gas money to get to locations and the cost of the monthly internet usage which was used to gather the free actors and crew and on and on…
It’s a clever gimmick and we wouldn’t be talking about this low end first film otherwise. Take a look at the 2nd trailer
for the film on the Colin website. It looks like a home movie made by a bunch of kids who borrowed their parents’ camcorder. I wouldn’t pay to see it.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:13:54 +0000

As I understand it it was partially filmed in London and Wales – just the transport getting between locations would cost more than 45 quid – definitaly “hidden” costs!

By: Anteprima FF09: Colin « I 400 calci

Anteprima FF09: Colin « I 400 calci — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:31:40 +0000

[...] in prestito/rubata da altri film a cui la troupe stava lavorando nel frattempo. Quali altri film? Wolverine, ad esempio. Giuro. Mavaffanculo. È come se una si vantasse di campare senza lavorare, e poi saltasse fuori [...]

By: ‘The Descent 2′ Heads ‘2009 Film 4 Frightfest’ Line-up - Screen Rant

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:31:44 +0000

[...] Dominic Monaghan); the £45/$70 zombie film that got a lot of attention at Cannes this year called Colin; and the Danish Nazi zombie flick, Dead [...]

By: Marc Machado

Marc Machado — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:39:47 +0000

And, sorry again, the whole $70 thing is a bit of marketing, isn’t it? People had to eat, get to the locations, some equipment rented (or used and depreciated, for g*d’s sake), electricity bills, etc. Even if everyone involved paid for all of their personal expenses, it’s still production money. “Leftover makeup” just doesn’t cover it. But it’s a good meme, everybody is talking about the 70 bucks movie.

By: Marc Machado

Marc Machado — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:28:37 +0000

70 bucks? Looks like it’s worth it, sorry…

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:41:22 +0000

Yeah, this looks utterly ridiculous. I’ve seen some terrible zombie flicks in my day, independent and professional, and this one looks no different. I’m not seeing anything new being brought to the table. I would’ve loved to have seen at least DECENT zombie makeup, but I saw nothing but a few drops of blood around the mouth and eyeshadow. Better luck next time.

By: Statler Waldorf

Statler Waldorf — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:57:07 +0000

Uhh yeah, Im a firm believer that if you have blood and brain nuggets AROUND your mouth, MAYBE JUST MAYBE, you should have a spot of blood on your teeth. Thats all Im saying.

Lets just say it looks like it was made for under $70.

And, no. No I don’t have a movie, Im just someone who watches movies, has an opinion, a computer, and enough money to pay my internet bill.

Modern Film = I could have done that. + You didn’t.

By: Speedy

Speedy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:19:46 +0000

Just from the trailer… if it is ANYTHING like cloversuck’s crappycam style, I will wait for the book or Simpson’s rippoff.

If it isn’t, I may see it.

By: Mario Alberto Salcido

Mario Alberto Salcido — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:59:53 +0000

Very impressive, considering what they had to work with.

I’ve seen many independent productions made for 1,000 times the amount invested into a film like “Colin”, only to fall flat on their faces.

I can only congratulate everyone involved for pulling something worth while together. GOOD JOB!

By: Paul Young

Paul Young — Wed, 27 May 2009 11:24:27 +0000

Well send him over here; we don’t review many horror films on this site but his story is fascinating to me. BTW, checked out your site, nice work.

By: DJBenz

DJBenz — Wed, 27 May 2009 10:15:13 +0000

Yeah, just commenting on the (natural, given the budget) link to BWP.

I keep in touch with Marc by email; he gives me updates on what the film’s doing and I tell him where I’ve seen coverage that he might not have known about (like the other night when there was a news spot on UK TV!). He keeps badgering me to come down to London for a beer, I’ll take him up on the offer one day!

By: Paul Young

Paul Young — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:55:22 +0000

@DJBenz – To quote Napoleon “LUCKY!!!” Since I didn’t mention BWP anywhere in my article I’m going to assume you were referring to the other comments left by people. Are you friends with or have you met Price?

By: DJBenz

DJBenz — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:56:43 +0000

I guess the links weren’t OK then! lol

@Paul Young: I’ve seen the film because I reviewed it. Horror fans should enjoy it immensely. Please don’t insult the filmmakers by mentioning it in the same breath as that awful Blair Witch rubbish!

By: DJBenz

DJBenz — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:28:05 +0000

@Paul Young: The movie has been shown at a Zombie All-Nighter in the UK, Cannes wasn’t the first public showing. However, I got to see it because I reviewed the movie from a screener DVD.

http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/colin/colin.htm

Also, my colleague Rosie (who is a zombie extra in the movie) did a great on set report:

http://www.horrortalk.com/reviews/Colin_Onset/Zombie_sunday.htm

(Hope links are OK, feel free to remove if you consider them spam)

By: jago

jago — Wed, 27 May 2009 05:57:27 +0000

yeah the trailer is not pulling me in… i might catch it when it lands on the sci-fi channel… i’m almost sure it will but i just saw the trailer to pontypool which looked soo much better.

By: INK

INK — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:19:54 +0000

Love the genre, but I think I’ll pass on this one, at least for now.