Movie fans have an ongoing love for zombies. While “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) made the genre popular, there were a number of earlier examples including “White Zombie” starring Bela Lugosi (1932) and “I Walked With a Zombie (1943).  Shot in Barcelona using a smartphone,  Sergio Munoz’s “Halloween 2014” ably carries on the tradition.

A few film elements make the film worth viewing more than once:

• The use of practical (onscreen) lighting–the “head band light”
• The chase reversal
• The use of silence to heighten the tension
• The critical use of dialogue (it’s in Spanish but non-Spanish speakers will get the point)

The filmmaker thanked his cast in the following paragraph:

Video introducción de Halloween. Agradecimientos y especialmente a los protagonistas del video porque sin ellos nada de esto es posible. David Pleguezuelos, Carlos Reina, Jenny Reina, Adrian Fernandez y Aleix Solernou. Agradecer tambien la gran colaboración de la Policía Local De Sant Joan de Vilatorrada y a la emisora de Radio Sant Joan ( 107.9 ), que nos a prestado sus instalaciones para poder recrear este escenario. Sin todos ellos esto habria sido imposible. Gracias a tod@s!

English courtesy of Google Translate:

Video introduction of Halloween. Thanks especially to the players in the video because without them none of this is possible. David Pleguezuelos, Carlos Reina, Reina Jenny, Adrian Fernandez and Aleix Solernou. Also acknowledge the great assistance of local police Vilatorrada De Sant Joan and Sant Joan radio station (107.9), which lent us their facilities to recreate this scenario. But all this would have been impossible. Thanks to all s!