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Following the showing of Where the Skin Lies at Horror-on-Sea I got a chance to talk with producer Joy Harrison, actress Georgia Winters and director Michael Boucherie about the confinements of living together and filming on set in the house, finding the right cast and dealing with builders.

Photo courtesy of J.Douglas Imagery

Is this the premiere today?

Joy – No, we premiered back in August at film at Frightfest, so we premiered in London, but we are very happy to be down at Southend-on-Sea for our second festival.

Michael – It’s nice because it is an intimate festival

Joy – It’s a fans festival, the people here really love the genre so its great. So, you enjoyed it?

It was excellent. I thought it was one of the most emotional films of the festival so far. It’s quite intense and towards the end it gets really emotional with the characters.

Stars: Eric Colvin, Jim Sweeney, Danny Brown, Simon Burbage, Jade Colucci, Joe Rainbow, Rachel Nottingham, Shamiso Mushambi, Georgia Winters, Rupert Phelps | Written and Directed by Jake Hawkins, Andy Phelps

Opening with a fantastic animated title sequence which explains the basic plot – soldiers return home from war infected with zombie-like symptoms which quickly spreads through out the populace – Zombie Resurrection is a brand-new, very British, take on the cliched zombie apocalypse tale. This time with one major change… One of the zombies in this movie displays Jesus-like powers! Yes, when he touches other zombies they are miraculously returned to life. Is this zombie “saviour” the cure for the undead plague, or is he heralding the end of the world?

From the offset Zombie Resurrection lays it cards on the table – this is Not a film to be taken seriously; even if there are a number of scary scenes that rival those...