286:. Pedota has said that the crew managed to cheaply improvise many items of equipment and props, which they otherwise would have needed to import. He also gives the example of set-dressing during a scene that required abandoned cars on a main highway, saying that they found many such cars already at the location; Gibbs noted that making an apocalypse film in Venezuela gave the production "a pre-made film set".
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370:, John Hopewell writes that the film has good production values and impressive shots of Caracas. He says it "can be read as social allegory". Javier Fernandez further writes that it "highlights a Latin American political problem, the destruction of a political and cultured class in a class struggle which spreads to the rest of Latin America".
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about the production described some difficulties that had been encountered in creating the film. For example, to ensure the cast and crew's safety, police were stationed around and on the sets; director Flavio Pedota said that the police were there "most of the time". The film also suffered from its
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Corina J Poore says that the film features "the fastest zombies ever seen", which are shown as breaking into houses and vandalizing abandoned cars, noting that this makes the film different. Poore comments on the social situation, too: she notes that in one shot a dead body lies beneath a sign
357:, and won a Best Makeup and Best Actor award (for Rubén Guevara) at the 2019 Skiptown Playhouse International Film Festival. At Skiptown Playhouse it was also nominated for Wardrobe, Production Design, Special Effects, Sound Design, Cinematography and Director. It was also screened at the 2019
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content. Talking to the magazine, Pedota maintained that " filmed about our nation today. Wherever you point your camera at, that's what you see"; Drax concludes that "Chavismo doesn't care about censoring zombies and gore, it cares about censoring reality reflected on the screen."
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graffiti. Pedota, the writer and director of the film, has said that political, social, and health issues can be "interpreted in many different ways" but he "doesn't want to be the guy who tells you what the film is about, people to explore it and have different interpretations".
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writes that horror is a genre often censored around the world, but it is popular in
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in 2018. In 2017 it had been shown at the
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agrees that the film contains a social narrative, saying that being set "in a destroyed region, the film uses the zombie genre to talk about the socio-political context of
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