Sunday, August 12, 2012

Nudist Camp Zombie Massacre

(Nudist Camp Zombie Massacre is a horror/comedy film (currently in production) by Tim Davis featuring the work of many talented volunteer actors, artists and crew.)
Nudist Camp Zombie Massacre was born after I had accepted a job as a 2nd unit director on the low budget indie flick Zombie Love Slave being shot by Joe Sherlock in Oregon. I was 2nd unit director on his film Odd Noggins shooting a great deal of it in
Alabama featuring Kimberly Lynn Cole. He had a novel way of shooting a movie by delegating portions of the movie to directors across the country then editing it all together. I was fortunate that the bulk of my footage was used, even outakes and footage on the tape not meant for him ended up in the movie. He is an imaginative editor.
In 2004 I was supposed to shoot the opening of Zombie Love Slave because of my skills as a film maker plus I am good at wrangling attractive model/actresses to do shower scenes which are the staple of B-movies and finally I have a background doing special effects make-up which all good zombies movies need. After a handful of attempt to shoot the scene which all had to be put off or cancelled due to a bad year I was having medically Joe had to release me from the project and come up with a different opening to his film. He told me to go recover but because of all the work I had put into the scene I could have the intellectual rights to it. I decided there that I could write an entire movie around this idea for an opening and I switched it to an ending, thus Nudist Camp Zombie Massacre was born.
I combined my interest in the grind house cinema 1960's and 70's nudist camp and busty stripper reels and cheesy zombie flicks. Another huge influence were the campy monster on the loose horror movies shot by Baltimore indie director Don Dohler in the 70's. Alien Factor has always been a big influence on me. that and the Planet of the Apes movies were the reason I got into make-up effects and film making.

Tim Davis

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