How do you pronounce Cannes? Cans, Cons or Can-IEs?

Any-whoo, Colin, a zombie movie made for less than $100 created quite a buzz at the film festival no matter how you pronounce it. Helen Grace of Left Films who is helping promoting the film told CNN:

We were almost fainting at the list of people who were coming [to the final market screening of the film]. Representatives from major American distributors — some of the Hollywood studios. When we say it’s a low budget film, people presume a couple of hundred thousand [dollars]. People can’t figure out how it’s possible. What Marc’s achieved has left people astonished.

Websites and magazines are saying that the zombie flick is “as original, and compelling” as Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and SCARS predicted it will “revolutionize zombie cinema.” (You should keep in mind that horror websites tend to get a little over excited about buzz, and can get a little overboard with their quotes.)

Director Marc Price calls his film a zombie film “with a heart,” and says he came up with the idea after watching Dawn of the Dead with friends.

A couple of friends were round a few years ago watching Romero’s ‘Dawn of the Dead’. And we were lamenting the fact that we could never make a zombie film — we wouldn’t be able to acquire a budget. Then I just woke up before everyone else — I was probably a bit hungover — and I wondered if a zombie movie from a zombie’s perspective had been done before.