Zombie Brigade

Zombie Brigade is an Australian zombie film. It was written, directed and produced by Carmelo Musca and Barrie Pattison. It screened at Cannes Film Festival in May 1988 but did not get a cinema release.^[2] It got a video release in Australia in August 1990.^[3]

Zombie Brigade
Directed by	Carmelo Musca Barrie Pattison
Written by	Carmelo Musca Barrie Pattison
Produced by	Carmelo Musca Barrie Pattison
Starring	John Moore Khym Lam
Cinematography	Alex McPhee
Edited by	Tang Thien Tai
Music by	John Charles Todd Hunter
Release date	1988 (1988)
Running time	91 min
Country	Australia
Language	English
Budget	$855,000[1]

Premise

In a small country town, Mayor Ransom buys up land to develop a theme park. Council officials blast a Vietnam War memorial, unleashing monsters.

Production

The script was written originally by Barrie Pattison who brought it to Carmelo Musca, who liked the idea of doing a genre piece with some social commentary. The state funding body Screen West refused to invest in the film.^[4] It was shot in Toodyay, Western Australia.^[1]

Cast

• John Moore as Harry Dare
• Khym Lam as Kevin
• Geoff Gibbs as Mayor Ransom
• Ron Lee as Kinoshita (as Adam A. Wong)
• Leslie Wright as Constable Bill Jackson
• Robert Faggetter as Wild

Reception

According to the filmmakers, "the film made back money four or five times over for the investors".^[4]

Peter West of Horror Talk gave it 2 1/2 stars and called it an "amusing movie at times."^[5] HorrorNews.net's Nigel Honeybone says "It’s definitely a zombie movie, but there’s a twist: these are good zombies with moral values, ethics, mercy and valor." and notes that "The two protagonists, for example, is an Aboriginal male and a Japanese female, which immediately challenges the viewer’s expectations."^[6]