One Cut of the Dead Review

Review of One Cut of the Dead (2017) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

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Despite being quite a bit different than what I was expecting (coming from being barraged by tweets praising this as the greatest zombie/horror film to come along in a long, long time), ONE CUT is effective not only in its portrayal of film production but everything that goes on in the filmmaker's personal lives as well.

The level of chaos that populates is palpable, more so around the halfway point than in the first third, for more complicated reasons. But the choice Ueda makes in showing us what comes before when he does certainly doesn't take away from what we've seen already. One thing's for sure, this is certainly a feature that aspiring filmmakers and students should see.