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Got this on dvd today, and watched it tonight.

It is a low budget film, but quite well made, and is an interesting film to watch.

Watching it I thought that what was outside was closer to the infected in 28 Days Later, than actual undead, but it is just a slightly different take on the undead.

The film mainly keeps it’s focus on the living and the interactions between them, but it does not lose anything because of this.

It is well worth watching though, and will interest many who frequent this forum.

Below is a review that will do better justice in selling the film than I could.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64599481

Posted by Kris R. Bird on February 28th, 2010 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

The Dead Outside (2009) is described in review quotes on the sleeve as “a seriously creepy zombie apocalypse” and “a side tale to 28 Days Later”, both of which are a bit cheeky and misleading. It’s a low, low budget post-apocalyptic character piece filmed in Dumfries and Galloway. In the wake of a pandemic that has left the infected incoherent, raging maniacs three unaffected survivors shelter in a remote Scottish house.

My initial reaction was of the “Oh suffering Christ” variety. How many more remakes of Night of the Living Dead can the world cope with? Well if there’s room for one more then make it this one because there’s a lot to recommend it.

There’s a professional lustre to it which a lot of UK zombie knock-offs can’t manage, but more importantly it makes a virtue of its micro-budget concentrating on character and back story rather than red paint and digital pudding.

It reminded me a bit of Chris Gorak’s 2006 movie Right At Your Door but set in a drab Scottish landscape rather than an LA suburb. This is a compliment.

http://feexby.com/2010/02/27/220210-270210/

Posted by Kris R. Bird on February 28th, 2010 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on November 26th, 2009 | Category: Announcements, Front Page, The Dead Outside | Comments (2)

Kris & Kerry in Scottish Screen’s industry e-bulletin.

Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 29th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

Scots film scoops horror honours

Kerry-Anne Mullaney and Kris Bird picked up awards at the festival

A film shot on location in the south of Scotland has taken two awards at a movie festival in Spain.

The Dead Outside won best film and Kerry-Anne Mullaney took best director at the 10th Estepona International Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.

It was filmed in Auldgirth near Dumfries and beat off competition from some bigger budget rivals.

Ms Mullaney currently has two more feature films in the pipeline which she also hopes to shoot in the region.

She said she was delighted to have received the recognition for her work.
“I was so thrilled to receive best director. I never expected to receive best film too,” she said.

“People came up afterwards and told me how much they loved the film and its foreboding atmosphere.”

Ms Mullaney runs film company Mothcatcher along with producer Kris Bird.
They recently moved to the village of New Abbey in Dumfries and Galloway, from a base in Edinburgh.

Mr Bird said the festival awards were a “major achievement” which would hopefully help to secure the support necessary to start filming another feature film later this year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/8268372.stm

Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

Scottish cinema is not all kilts and drugs, and you’ll find that outside of Scottish Screen films actually get made that aren’t cliched, appeal to the current film audiences, and are really good. One Day Removals. for example, or a horror film I saw at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this year, the excellent The Dead Outside.

There’s more great news for the film as it just won the Best Film and Best Director for Kerry-Anne Mullaney at the Estepona International Horror and Fantasy Film Festival.

These awards add to the Special Jury Mention at Festival Internazionale della Fantascienza di Trieste last year and the Best New Work, Director, Producer, and Writer at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards this year. The story comes through the BBC.

Frankly I don’t know why this film isn’t getting more publicity, and I hope I can help a little in that area, because it is so damned good and rather clever.

It was filmed in just fifteen days in Dumfries and Galloway and takes a huge, worldwide event and looks at the effect on a couple of isolated people.

While it’s deemed a zombie film, it’s really a psychological horror that takes some clever views of the lead characters, how they are affected by the events and how they interact with each other.

I really enjoyed the film when I saw it and, liked One Day Removals, was surprised by how good the film was. This is small scale Scottish cinema, unaided by the people who should really be helping Scotland grow their cinema base but is too interested in the big, headline grabbing names and projects.

I’d recommend keeping an eye out for The Dead Outside and for anything that this Scottish production team come up with next. I have high hopes for their next film, and the producer tells me that we’ll be hearing more when it develops.

As for now a well done to the team and the film, and a reminder to you all to try and get your eyes on this film. Here’s the official site to help out.

http://www.filmstalker.co.uk/archives/2009/09/the_dead_outside_wins.html

Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

The Dead Outside is the first feature film from Kerry Anne Mullaney and Kris R. Bird’s Mothcatcher Films and features debut performances from Alton Milne (Daniel) and the then 16 year old Sandra Louise Douglas (April).

Set in the Highlands of Scotland (although filmed in the Borders) Mullaney and Bird tell an intimate tale of two survivors of a neurological disease which has effected all of Britain (and possibly the rest of the world). As the story progresses we’re introduced to Sharon Osdin as Kate, who threatens to break the strained relationship these two survivors have formed. With a closed off April refusing to reveal exactly her story it soon becomes clear that there’s much more to her existence than is first apparent.

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 15th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

Another twist on the zombie genre – a neurological pandemic has swept the United Kingdom, but those with the infection don’t die immediately, becoming increasingly incoherent, unstable and violent. The infection mutated, went airborne and the government’s so-called vaccine only slowed down the symptoms. The result: the infectious period was extended and the disease spread unnoticed and the virus wiped out most of the misinformed population. Six months later, and the landscape is littered with wandering psychopaths and scavenging survivors.

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 15th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

La décima edición del festival se desarrolló entre el 7 y el 12 de septiembre. La gran triunfadora de la muestra fue la cinta escocesa ‘The dead outside’, que obtuvo el premio a la mejor película y a la mejor dirección para Kerry Anne Mullaney.

La X Semana Internacional de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Estepona ha sido patrocinada por la Diputación de Málaga y el Ayuntamiento de la localidad. Las publicaciones presentadas dentro del evento han tenido como tema central la mujer en el cine fantástico y la figura de los muertos vivientes, caso del escritor Ángel Gómez Rivero, que presentó su obra ‘Cine zombi’, que en palabras del autor ‘es el recorrido más exhaustivo editado en nuestro país sobre el cine protagonizado por muertos vivientes’.

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 14th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

La debutante Kerry Anne Mullaney convence al jurado con su filme sobre un virus neurológico

Una pandemia provocada por un virus neurológico. Dos personas que no se conocen, pero que acaban aisladas en una granja de la campiña escocesa. El temor a que ya no quede vida en el mundo exterior. Esta es la tarjeta de presentación de ‘The dead outside’, una modesta cinta escocesa de la debutante Kerry Anne Mullaney que anoche se alzó en la X Semana Internacional de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Estepona con el Unicornio de Oro a la mejor película y con el Unicornio de Plata a la mejor dirección.

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 14th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

La película escocesa “The dead outside” ha sido galardonada con el Unicornio de Oro a la Mejor Película en la X Semana Internacional de Cine Fantástico y de Terror de Estepona (Málaga), cuya gala de clausura se ha celebrado esta noche en el Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de la ciudad.

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on September 14th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

If I’m being honest my hopes for the horror film The Dead Outside were low. Although Scottish film is seeing a bit of a rise in quality and intelligence of late, this did sound like a it had a very low budget and it was also horror, and we all know that whatever country a horror film comes from with a low budget it’s very easy to get wrong. After all they say the easiest way into film-making is through horror.

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on July 21st, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

The first feature from music video director Kerry Anne Mullaney exists in world bleaker and farther north than 28 Days Later, and a little deeper inside the art house. The director makes a benefit of the lack of finance, with gritty visuals and an excellent performance from Sandra Louise Douglas (in her first role), as April, a girl soaked in horror, whose anger may have more meaning than mere teenage angst. The two lead characters exist on opposite sides of a moral divide—Daniel, a good man who still sees the infected as human beings, is haunted (it seems literally in a couple of scenes), by what he couldn’t bring himself to do, whereas April shoots on sight and is almost catatonic from the things she has seen, the people she has lost, and those she has killed. More »

Posted by Kris R. Bird on June 15th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

First time director Kerry Anne Mullaney gets up close and personal in this virus plagued run through the Scottish Highlands. Made for a pittance the story focuses more on the characters Daniel, April, and Kate rather than the airborne disease. Also, light on action, until the climax, “The Dead Outside,” becomes re-watchable as paranoia turns characters against each other in the battle for a cure.
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Posted by Kris R. Bird on June 6th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

Scottish director Kerry Ann Mullaney premieres her zombie feature The Dead Outside in the United States at the Another Hole In The Head Film Festival in San Francisco this upcoming week!

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on June 4th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

An unusual zombie film in that it delivers its jolts through suspense and style rather than blood and gore, “The Dead Outside” breathes much-needed new life into the increasingly tired subgenre. The picture capitalizes on one of the most universal fears — being left alone — and conjures up a chilling tale of isolation. There are zombies outside but the real drama happens indoors as two former strangers come to terms with what they now mean to each other.

http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_12503525?IADID=Search-www.insidebayarea.com-www.insidebayarea.com

Posted by Kris R. Bird on June 4th, 2009 | Category: Blog, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

The Dead Outside market premières at the Marche du Film, Cannes today.

The film is represented at the Carlton Hotel by the film’s Sales Agent, Boll AG.

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Posted by Kris R. Bird on May 13th, 2009 | Category: Announcements, Front Page, Press Releases, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

The Dead Outside is showing tonight at 18.30 in Naples, Italy, as part of Comicon!

More info here.

Posted by Kris R. Bird on April 26th, 2009 | Category: Announcements, Front Page, Screenings & Releases, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment

The Dead Outside is showing tonight at 7pm @ Dendy, Sydney, as part of the A Night of Horror film festival!

More info here.

Posted by Kris R. Bird on April 1st, 2009 | Category: Announcements, Front Page, Screenings & Releases, The Dead Outside | Leave a comment