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Juan of the Dead (15)

Comedy, Horror

50 years after the Cuban Revolution, a new Revolution is about to begin.


The critical consensus

If it’s not too late in the day for yet another zombie movie, this has enough small pleasures — especially in the lead characterisations — to make it a worthwhile watch for a) Cuban exiles and b) long-term zombie completists. Others may be slightly bewildered.

***(*)(*)Kim Newman, Empire Online, 01/05/2012

This wacky zombie comedy exploits to the full this genre's juicy potential for satire: a more solemn kind of movie maybe couldn't get away with being quite as irreverent about the Castro government.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 03/05/2012

Brugues' film can't decide whether it wants to be clever-clever or crude-crude, so it goes for both. As a result, a strong stomach and broad sense of humour are required.

**(*)(*)(*)Alison Rowat, The Herald, 03/05/2012

Juan of The Dead is rough and ready, the effects are a little shoddy, the comedy is broad and sometimes homophobic but there are just enough whimsical moments and deadpan hilarity to make it worthwhile.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, The List, 04/05/2012

Rather overstays its welcome.

Philip French, The Observer, 06/05/2012

Zombie comedy and a critique of Castro combine in this mildly scary, occasionally brilliant satire.

***(*)(*)Siobhan Synnot, The Scotsman, 07/05/2012

Rum zombie flick blends hit-and-miss buddy comedy with slyly subversive political commentary.

Anton Bitel, Little White Lies, 03/05/2012

Alejandro Brugués dispatches the undead with cartoonish glee (slingshots!) and resurrects the genre’s political subtexts with jibes at a country where zombies are dismissed as “dissidents” and public transport continues to run, no matter what.

***(*)(*)Simon Kinnear, Total Film, 02/05/2012


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General release. Check local listings for show times.

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