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Juan of the Dead

Country: Cuba, Language: Spanish, 92 mins

Original Title

Juan de los Muertos
  • Director: Alejandro Brugués
  • Writer: Alejandro Brugués
  • Producer: Laura Alvea; Claudia Calviño

CGiii Comment

It's cheap, it's silly and very funny...even if a little uneven in places.

High-budget Hollywood productions could learn much from this little film...really, better than anything that they have ever produced...in such a saturated genre.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Juan is a slacker trying to reconnect with his daughter, who plans to rejoin her mother in Miami. Lazaro, Juan's friend, is trying to connect with his own son, a persistent womanizer. They begin to notice that locals are "going crazy", killing people and eating their flesh, and the recently deceased are returning to life. The Cuban government and the media claim that the zombies are dissidents revolting against the government. Juan starts a business to profit off of killing the zombies, but the group may soon find their own lives at risk.

Cast & Characters

Alexis Diaz de Villegas as Juan;
Jorge Molina as Lazaro;
Andrea Duro as Camila;
Andros Perugorria as Vladi California;
Jazz Vila as La China;
Eliecer Ramirez as El Primo;
Antonio Dechent as Father Jones;
Blanca Rosa Blanco as Sara;
Elsa Camp as Yiya;
Susana Pous as Lucia