One Cut of the Dead

Ueda... manages to reinvigorate two of the most tired tropes cluttering our media landscape: art as meta commentary on art, and explosive diarrhea.

One Cut of the Dead isn't just charming. It's an earnest and funny love letter to all the microbudget dreamers who use all their heart and ingenuity to make their movie.

You have to want to invest in his characters in order for One Cut of the Dead to really take off.

A master class in endless narrative inventiveness and an ode to the resourceful and collaborative spirit of hands-on filmmaking, "One Cut of the Dead" amounts to an explosively hilarious rarity.

It's a savagely sharp comedy that uses the gleeful gore of zombie horror to accentuate the absurdity of filmmaking...

Shinichiro Ueda's zombie comedy is one that purposefully pretends to offer familiar zombie schlock only to rip the rug out from under us in an innovative, hilarious way. The level of detail is uncanny, and the comedy is equally matched by charm.

One of the smartest, funniest, and sweetest zombie movies you will ever see.

One Cut of the Dead has definitely made its way onto my “Favorite Movies of All Time” list.

With an outrageous meta conceit, One Cut of the Dead captures the independent filmmaking experience in all its horrible but ecstatic glory.

Initially grating, the films quickly grow on you, like a zombie virus infecting your brain...