KrisztianMajdik

Hi reddit. I'm ready and looking forward to your questions.

Besides the original NOTLD? JAWS and POLTERGEIST. What's yours?

Ha, nice question...(ಠ_ಠ)

We chose to do this kind of film because we love horror and we wanted to try our hands on creating a zombie film. Why not? It's fun...but also because it has an audience. Unfortunately making movies is expensive and there is a business side to it. For a new, unproven team, with very little money, outside the studio system, we needed to do a project that could generate enough return in order to make another film. It was also essential to GET financing in the first place and attach our wonderful cast. Hopefully this one does alright and we can do a follow up. We have a fantastic sci-fi script lined up and I would LOVE to get started on that.

Thank you for your question. Now this is my first feature and it took FOREVER! A couple years on and off. You are absolutely right, it's HARD. Someone said something along the lines of "It's incredibly hard to make a bad movie and impossible to make a good one." We had no idea what we were going into (and what we were doing!). We had the production budget of maybe 1/3rd of a Simpsons episode and industry people told us there was no way we could do it. But most of us were just a couple years out of school, hungry to tell stories and we all shared a deep love for animation. That was the inspiration/motivation to do this.

In terms of what inspires me the way I shoot? I grew up with Indiana Jones, Blade Runner, Alien, big popcorn movies. Those films affected me and influenced my style. I like a fluid, moving camera. Animation was the world that would let me execute my style with the limited money we had. In other words, the freedom of it is intriguing...at least on paper. Little did I know that there were even more restrictions in animation than in live action!

This has been in the works for a long time. On a conceptual level, the project started in 2009 as a micro budget animated film. Basically a bunch of kids in a garage type of thing. We hit some hurdles on the way and the project went through a couple long breaks. Most of the work was done in the past two years.