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Dead Meat was filmed in and around the village of Leitrim, County Leitrim, Ireland. Release. According to the "making of..." featurette included in the US DVD release, the film was greenlighted under a new funding scheme from the Irish Film Board called "Microbudget Films", targeted at frugal independent filmmakers.
Dead Meat: Directed by Conor McMahon. With Marian Araujo, David Muyllaert, Eoin Whelan, David Ryan. An infection spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, which causes the dead to rise and feed on the living.
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- Action, Comedy, Horror
- Conor McMahon
- 2004-12
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is a 2004 Irish zombie film written and directed by Conor McMahon, starring Spanish theatre actress Marian Araujo and veteran Irish actor Eoin Whelan.
An outbreak of a mutant strain of mad cow disease infects the Irish countryside, turning people into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies. Caught amid this chaos are a young Spanish tourist and the local gravedigger. Together, this unlikely duo must fight for survival.
•Marian Araujo as Helena
•David Muyllaert as Desmond
•Eoin Whelan as Cathal Cheutan
•David Ryan as Martin
•Amy Redmond as Francie
•Kathryn Toolan as Lisa
was filmed in and around the village of Leitrim, County Leitrim, Ireland.
According to the "making of..." featurette included in the US DVD release, the film was greenlighted under a new funding scheme from the Irish Film Board called "Microbudget Films", targeted at frugal independent filmmakers. Dead Meat was the first microbudget film to receive a release. To cut costs, the crew used many donated sets, filmmakers' pe...
David Muyllaert, who played heroic gravedigger Desmond in Dead Meat, also sang lead on the film's title song, the punk-metal-ish "Dead Meat".
The score was composed by John Gillooley.
Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote, "A rural Irish setting and mad cow disease plot hook do surprisingly little to distinguish fast-moving but routine zombie flick". Beyond Hollywood called it "one of the best zombie movies, regardless of budget, to come out in recent years". Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: Volume 2, academic Peter Dendle sai...
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A local gravedigger and Spanish vacationer zigzag across Irish countryside from a growing onslaught of twitchy dead. Another shot-on-video zombie movie that seems to exist solely to be its native country's first when that trend was all the rage.
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- Conor Mcmahon
Aug 15, 2023 · It wasn’t until 2004, with the backing of a re-established Irish Film Board (now known as Screen Ireland or Fís Éireann), that Ireland produced one of its very first horror films: Dead Meat. Written and directed by McMahon, Dead Meat is set in the Leitrim countryside where Helena, played by Marian Araujo , and her partner Martin ( David ...
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Jul 20, 2009 · Starring:Marian Araujo. Anthony Litton. David Mallard. Ivan McCullough. David Ryan. Eoin Whelan. Movie: An outbreak of Mad Cow disease mutates into a new virus that causes infected humans to become flesh eating zombies! The lovely Helena and her fiancé are on a driving tour of the Irish countryside when the outbreak hits.
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