2011 ‘Juan de los muertos’ Directed by Alejandro Brugués
While Havana is full of zombies hungry for human flesh, official media reported that the disturbances are caused by dissidents paid by the United States. Panic seizes all until Juan comes to the rescue: he discovers he can kill the undead destroying his brain, and decides to start a small business under the slogan "We kill your loved ones."
Alexis Díaz de Villegas Jorge Molina Andros Perugorría Andrea Duro Jazz Vilá Eliecer Ramírez Blanca Rosa Blanco Susana Pous Antonio Dechent Eslinda Núñez Elsa Camp Pablo Alexandro González Ramy Juan Miguel Más Argelio Sosa Marisol Egurrola Diana Rosa Suárez René de la Cruz Jr. Sandy Marquetti Luis Alberto García Olga Lidia Alfonso Pablo Baena Vicente Javier Olmedo Enrique Gadea Manuel Herrera Mailyn Domínguez Ulyk Anello Zoraida Rosario Eduardo Almirante Pavel Giroud Show All…
Canal Sur La Zanfoña Producciones Producciones de la 5ta Avenida ICAIC Inti Herrera Producciones TVE
Juan de los Muertos, Juan Of The Dead, 僵尸胡安, Il Cacciatore di Zombie, Хуан - истребитель кубинских зомби, Juan, a zombivadász, Ölülerin Juan’ı, Хуан на мъртвите, Juan od trupów, 후안 오브 더 데드, 僵屍胡安, Juan dos Mortos
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Film #90 of Make me watch your favourite.
Recommended by Valdesbian.
Socialism vs the Undead.
A rogue harpoonist.
Fainting bodybuilders.
Zombies.
Undead salsa dancing.
The most hilarious sitting-naked-in-a-car-chained-to-each-other scene you'll ever see.
Swimming zombies.
Coolest DIY amphibian vehicle ever.
Sodomite zombies.
Masturbation.
Hairy Cuban balls.
Zombies.
Yeah, you kinda need to watch this.
I ended up watching Juan with the English dub audio because the original audio had some odd echo effect going on. I think it took away from the film as the dub was bad, real bad.
Otherwise, like most of my three star rated movies, it seemed it could have been so much better if has less cliche and just reached out a little bit more. However, it did have some original scenes that gave me a chuckle.
Can't remember who's review I saw now but it was enough to make me watch this. Juan of the Dead is a Spanish-Cuban zombie comedy horror based in the Cuban city of Havana and is directed by Alejandro Brugués.
Juan is a bit of a lowlife criminal making a living in Havana. A zombie epidemic suddenly starts and spreads quickly. Juan decides that he can make money from this and starts his own business called Juan of the Dead, charging people for killing their infected loved ones. As the film progresses, most of the city eventually becomes infected and Juan and his band decide to find a way to leave Havana.
The movie mainly impressed me with some good accomplished…
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Juan of the Dead just didn't click with me, simple as that. Thought I would love this, and I totally get the appeal, but the mean-spirited "bro-esque" comedy, the blood and guts drowning in poor cgi, and apart from Juan and his brother none of the other characters were interesting at all, it just felt like a drag. Some kinda bigger, overarching story would've helped, an actual goal. Every scene feels like a five to ten minute skit with no lasting impact as soon as the punchline is over, by the third or fourth one I was done. Never…
REVIEW IN SPANISH
La idea de mostrar con la satira q esta bien sobre q en un apocalipsis zombie muchos no se pondrian en plan de moralistas y de ayudar al otro sino q se preocuparian por sus propios intereses y como estos desastres alrededor los podria veneficiarlos, realista pero soza en su ejecucion al tener q complementar esto en 1.
mira los estereotipos y roles muy de caricaturas de los personajes y de las cuales no tenemos evolucion de estos personajes, terminan como empezamos siendo ellos mismos sin algun tipo de transformacion, y pese q si es graciosa y le atina al satirizar a su gente como al gobierno cosas q realmente harian pero no es suficiente para ser…
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34/100
Juan of the Dead doesn't suffer from the fact that it's a zombie film and therefore being immediately limited in how much it can impress me.
It's that it doesn't work hard enough on the characters to excuse their occasionally shitty acts and statements so that they can get away with them. Jorge Molina killing a living person because he owed him money *could* have been a funny moment, but Molina wasn't likeable enough by that point for it to work.
So essentially it suffers from similar issues that most horror-comedies face but makes up for it with an intriguingly relaxed approach to zombie behaviour. Some are fast and…
Part of 30 Countries 2020. Today: Cuba!
Bernie Sanders was criticised recently for praising Cuba's tactics in dealing with a zombie apocalypse, pointing out that they were statistically more efficient than any capitalist nation in handling plagues of the undead. A look at Alejandro Brugués's documentary about the Cuban zombie crisis, though, reveals an entrepreneurial spirit in the middle of the Communist state. Faced with a Romero-level situation, the citizens of Cuba decided they would not only fight but profit, forming a freelance army of zombie hunters with the magnificently tasteless slogan "We kill your loved ones".
As Juan, the rather John Turturro-ish Alexis Díaz de Villegas walks this tightrope nicely. His embrace of the zombie apocalypse as a business…
Cuba’s answer to Shaun of the Dead, only with more body hair and fewer laughs. It is trope-heavy, as you’d expect, and the humour is mostly lowbrow slapstick, but there are small moments of ingenuity here and there. Its subversive elements will no doubt work better for those who are more familiar with Cuban politics.
At the very least it contains one of the smartest mass-zombie-clearing techniques I’ve yet seen, so there’s that.
Watched as part of Hooptober X... 14/31
--> 6 countries - Cuba
--> 2 post apocalyptic or natural disaster films
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I was disappointed in Juan of the Dead after having it on my Watchlist for so long. But what a perfect movie to satisfy the 6 Countries requirement of Hooptober. I mean, how many Cuban movies makes it out into the wild... much less Cuban zombie comedies inspired by a British one?
Juan of the Dead is about a very lazy Cuban man who, with his trusty oar, thrives during the zombie apocalypse in Cuba. Together with his friends, they survive and decide if they want to stay on their island nation or make an escape to Miami.
I'm…
What starts off as a zombie movie/political allegory devolves into a more or less generic zombie movie, but with subtitles.
Fulfills all the requirements of what you expect from a zombie movie, but nothing more than that.
It's always entertaining and you more than get your blood and gore quotient, but after its promising start, you expect and deserve more than you do.
In retrospect, the most clever thing about this movie is the title, which isn't really all that clever. But you do get rapid fire zombie kills as well as rapid fire espanol! Que Lastima!!
But if you're looking to watch a zombie movie set in Cuba, then this is the Juan for you/para ti.
Fun fakt- Simon…
A zombie flick where the humans do more repulsive things than the zombies do!
I think the biggest plus was the fact its a Cuban film in the 1st place! That's pretty impressive especially considering all the jabs the film takes at the Cuban government!
Interesting, mildly funny and I look forward to future Cuban contributions to the film industry!
