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Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary

Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 8, 2019

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Zombies en el cañaveral: el documental

Production Companies

Películas Zapruder

Director

Pablo Schembri

Description

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.