A few years back an ultra low budget little Greek film made its squishy entrance onto the circuit of international genre film festivals, turning more than a few heads with its devotion to splatter and ability to turn up the tension on a shoestring budget. That film - To Kako or Evil - managed to land itself a North American distribution deal and, though it left us with Athens swarmed by an unstoppable zombie horde, screenwriter and director Yorgos Noussias has found a novel way of continuing the story.
It's a three step process. First, up the production values, a step undertaken with the help of the Red digital camera which is sure to get things looking better. Second, stunt casting. Even better, recognizable stunt casting, in this case Billy Zane in the lead as a wandering prophet. Third, a good head scratching "Huh?" sort of moment.
I've been keeping an eye on the website of this one for a while but so far while stills have obviously looked better than the original there hasn't been anything quite noteworthy enough to make an issue of. But while there is still not a teaser or trailer available a new batch of stills has just arrived that makes it clear that they're not messing about with the title on this one. Evil: In The Time Of Heroes isn't just a goofy title, a section of this film very clearly looks to involve zombies attacking classical Greece. As in the Greece of Homer, The Iliad and The Odyssey. Wacky,