Zombie Fuel

  by Bone Jawnson Is It Dead? is the debut short film from Zombie Fuel. This was filmed with no budget and with a team of one person, myself, Bone Jawnson. All scenes were filmed in Hatfield, Pennsylvania with a Motorola smartphone and edited in the free graphic design program, Canva. All sound effects were either filmed live or downloaded from the Canva foley FX files.

Photo Credit moma.org by Bone Jawnson On a cold Saturday afternoon in March, I decided to dive into low-budget horror movies from the 1970s and 1980s. As a fan of the do-it-yourself process, I've always been attracted to the passion and drive of low-budget horror movie creators, like the team from TROMA. Having a hectic life, I've been hard-pressed to find the time to sit down, watch and appreciate this type of movie genre, until now. Recently, I stumbled across a photo of the blob-with-teeth-like being, Belial, from the movie "Basket Case." I've heard the name of the movie before, but never viewed it. To start my journey, I performed a Google search which turned up an informative video on the YouTube channel, Dead Meat . What I found through that video completely sold me: low budget, blood, guts, foam latex, an eight-year-old puppeteer, and a dash of comedy. To summarize what I discovered, the director, Frank Henenlotter, sought to make the silliest movie he co...