The day after Halloween, Jim awakens in his crashed car to find two strangers, Fran and George, locked in with him, the walking dead lumbering outside of the vehicle. The threesome soon ... See full summary
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The day after Halloween, Jim awakens in his crashed car to find two strangers, Fran and George, locked in with him, the walking dead lumbering outside of the vehicle. The threesome soon realizes that they are trapped inside with no way to contact the outside world and radio announcements telling them to remain indoors and away from anyone whose been attacked. As the days progress, the characters struggle with themselves and one another to remain optimistic and sane but disagreements and discoveries about one another lead to conflict and escalated bad behavior. A break occurs between the group when there is a close encounter with disaster involving Fran's boyfriend Shaun, now a zombie who even in un-death has refused to leave her side, and the tenuous peace within the car strains to the snapping point. Each characters momentary decisions after this effect not only their own eventual escape or demise but the futures of everyone else within the car and whether or not they will be saved. ...
| Credited cast: | |||
 | Andrew Davies | - | Jim |
| Kristin Noriega | - | Fran |
| Kirk LaSalle | - | George |
 | Barnett Brettler | - | Shaun (as Michael Brettler) |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Roxana Bastani | - | Pumpkin Zombie |
| Ian Chin | - | Window Zombie |
| Brandon Sternburg | - | Twitching Zombie |
| Jessica Storie | - | Lovely Linda / Radio Announcer |
Actor Kirk LaSalle fractured his ankle on set by catching it in a covered pothole during a break but chose to remain to finish filming. He did not find out the extent of his injuries until months later.
The script was finished in two weeks with only one revision.
Filmed in Syracuse, New York for under US$1000, with the car taking up over half the budget.