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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
Technology
Ian Dean

How a filmmaker made a zombie epic in his backyard

A demon stares down at a person .

I'm no filmmaker, but as a teen in the '90s, I spent hours creating bad kung fu movies with a Super 8 camera I'd found in my parents' garage (I neither knew kung fu nor how to make movies, but if Tarantino could do it, so could I).

Every filmmaker remembers their first movie, like my janky experiments: shaky shots, improvised props, and a whole lot of imagination. For Joshua Kerr, it was the street outside his childhood home, packed with friends playing zombies and, like me, a Super 8 camera capturing every stumble and lunge.

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