Here’s the official website, here’s the MySpace with screening dates around the world.
The plot, not that one needs much of one in a zombie flick, involves a gang of teenagers en route to a rock concert. Their path to the show is blocked by a protest against polluted drinking water. The teens detour around the protesters on an old country road, and end up in the hands of hungry, undead psychopaths who munch on them with great delight.
Snip from Variety feature:
[It] might not be Pakistan’s first horror movie, but it’s almost certainly the first featuring midget zombies and produced by an ice cream mogul.
And here’s an item on the Lahore metblog from “pretty simple,” who went to see a screening in Pakistan yesterday:
The stuff I liked about this local director’s flick was that, that its purely based on Pakistani Culture, there were glimpses of Maula Jutt, dhamal beat as the dominant background music, usage of “shuttlecock burqa” as mask or cover, even Luddoo. Yes, the story was predictable, but original locations and related Pakistani props gave it a reality-based genuine touch. It was fun watching first Pakistani horror movie, no doubt we were laughing most of the times, but there was really some ruthless killing in it, with blood all over the place and eyeballs in a jar (yuk).
Hey, how do you say BRRRRRRAAAAIIINNNNSSS in Urdu?
Blogger Imran Ali suggests the film’s title should be “28 Samosas Later.”
(Thanks, Hassan!).
Previously on BoingBoing:
Reader comment: Allan Janus says,
Xeni, on the subject of “Zibahkhana”, the Pakistani zombie film, there’s a wonderful Lollywood vampire film, “The Living Corpse” (Zinda Laash, 1967): Link. It’s kind of fabulous. I’ve got some screen caps on my page: Link. According to the DVD’s included documentaries, vampire fangs were unavailable in Pakistan at the time, so the movie’s fangs were especially imported from Germany – fact!
Hameed Chughtai says,
The literal translation of Zibahkhana is “Slaughterhouse” and the translation for brain is “maghz“.