Pom! hive assemble: One Cut Of The Dead is finally coming to American movie theaters

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Yeah, we know. Another low-budget zombie movie? Seriously? But One Cut Of The Dead is something special, we swear. And if you don’t believe The A.V. Club—which declared it our favorite movie of last year’s Fantastic Fest, saying it “does something many, including this writer, didn’t think was possible … It reinvents the zombie movie”—how about the Japanese moviegoing public? They’ve embraced the film (titled カメラを止めるな!, or, Don’t Stop The Camera!, in its native language) with open arms, racking up 2 million admissions and $26.5 million in box-office receipts over four months in Japanese movie theaters.
Many of those admissions were from repeat viewers; as director Shinichiro Ueda said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter last fall: