This is an excellent short film! Too bad they haven't done a feature out of it! This is a fast-paced, funny horror short film with a cool hero and lots of zombies. Beside being a great mix of fun and terror, this movie is technically very well done. The movie tells of a lonely man who lives in a town with more zombies than humans, who everyday kills the undead and gets drunk at the local bar. It is a shame that there aren't more titles like this in Portuguese filmography. Filipe Melo pulled a great job producing this film and I look forward to see his next project, 'Dog Mendonza'. THe only flaw is Sofia Aparicio's performance - definitely, models shouldn'tact. Ever!
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zezinhadafoz29 March 2007
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joao-vendetta9 March 2011A great zombie short, with great effects (makeup and splatter) and sense of humor (the midget was a riot). The set pieces look great and the photography is just brilliant. It's a debut for the film's writer/producer, but if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't know. Everything looks and feels amazing. The only downside is the characters don't really have time to develop, and some actors don't really go all the way with what they are given. We want more! At least 90 minutes more! Time to find out how the zombies affect a small country village in rural Portugal. And why the hell they feed potatoes to a zombie...
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claudio-silva21 April 2004This is a great movie. It's a short film- only 18 min. - about zombies, the first made in Portugal. I had the pleasure of seeing it in Fantasporto, the Oporto International Film Festival, with the leading actor sitting right next to me. I could tell he was nervous, but really he shouldn't be. It has all the ingredients a zombie movie should have. A funny plot, great special effects and a super low budget. With that said, one might think of lousy actors. Fortunately this is not the case, through friends and friends of friends, the director managed to find a great cast of famous portuguese actors and models at very low cost( probably bus fares-kidding!!) and the result is awesome, especially if you ( like me ) see them all the time in "serious" movies and TV shows. A + for this movie. Way to go Portugal.
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lcarrilho8 March 2004And thus starts the first shortness zombie movie of the Portuguese cinema, carried through for Miguel Alive, with a short budget. 18m of suspense, zombies and death. A good photograph and a good interpretation by Adelino Tavares. Rui Unas (Os Imortais), the beauty model Sofia Aparicio, Manuel João Viera (Capitaes de Abril, A Janela) and São José Correia (A Mulher que acreditava ser presidente dos Estados Unidos) are caracters from this short movie. This story tell us about a man Lucio (Adelino Tavares), who lives in a small village full of dark zombies ready to bit anyone. the movie begins with the main caracter shooting a zombie, and then ...
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jfgibson7326 February 2010Complete spoilers within.
Here is a 20 minute short film about a zombie hunter who lives in a small village. We only see other people holed up in a tavern-like building, and it looks as if it could be taking place at an earlier time in history (candlelight, wooden houses). The main character, Lucio, is very efficient at killing zombies, and does not hesitate to execute someone bitten by them. We also see that he doesn't get along with one of the other regulars at the bar (not clear if everyone stays there together all the time, or if they actually go home and come back). We see that his wife was bitten by a zombie, but instead of killing her, he keeps her locked up and continues to talk to her. He seems to feel guilty for her condition, but also begins to take comfort in the arms of another survivor. The film climaxes in a scene where Lucio and the other woman get trapped in a rotting building with an impossible number of zombies to fight off. They have been shut out of the tavern/sanctuary because the inhabitants can't be sure if they were bitten or not. Lucio fights a few off at first, but when he realizes the odds, he throws the girl into the zombie mob to save himself. It appears to work, as they attack her and he walks past unnoticed. However, his wife appears suddenly, having broken free somehow, and bites him, turning him into a zombie. That's where it ends. It was effective at creating a time and place, and showing how the characters exist in it. The makeup was well done, and the ending left me satisfied. -
vera_sabino1 March 2006First of all, I just wanna say that this isn't really a movie, but a short type of an independent movie, like we say in Portugal, "curta-metragem". Well, wen I first saw this I admit I really wasn't expect that was so great. All the characters, the story, was told in a specific way that we can really became involved in it. Despite of the short time, the director focused the various characteristics of the human being, but most of all the survival, we do anything to survive, and we can see it in a way, that could shock some people on this film. Another aspect that I appreciate was the fact that what we hate is not really granted, and could change under certain circumstances. Well, I just can say that this was really a good work. Oh, and just another thing be very afraid of the zombies!!!
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Z_cm29 May 2005There was quite a buzz around this movie because it's the first zombie film to be produced in Portugal, so naturally, I was a little curious about it too. When I finally got a chance to see it I was really disappointed. It's only 18~20 minutes long, the special effects aren't as great as they seemed from the promos (the zombies mostly look like they're wearing crude rubber masks) and apart from two small plot twists the movie itself is a bit boring.
The movie is backed up by a mock documentary about a certain Eurico Catatau, supposedly the first Portuguese director to attempt filming a zombie movie in Portugal and author of the script that inspired "I'll see you in my dreams". We follow his life from birth to present time, his strange tragedies that sway him away from greatness and force him into a meager existence as a highway toll worker. (Eg: his childhood phobia to frogs causes his longtime partner to suffocate on the set while filming his zombie movie, which causes the production to stop!) The documentary's film-makers do a really good job at making it sound credible -- despite the incredible circumstances of Eurico's biography; many Portuguese celebrities speak about Catatau, when and how they got to know him. It really sounds like this man existed, but it's pure fiction! At least that's what the documentary's director stated in the making-of. This documentary is actually the most enjoyable part of the film's viewing experience. It's amusing and almost heart-breaking, especially if you don't know that this Eurico Catatau never existed, because then he takes a very real human form (the power of cinema, I suppose!) The film proper has, as mentioned above, two interesting twists. First, the zombie-killing hero, who looks like an unlikely roughed-up farmer, keeps his "zombiefied" adulterous wife locked-up in his house. The possibilities of the "love triangle" later formed could've been explored, but they're not. Second, when things get difficult, our hero says "screw the girl!" and tosses her into a mob hungry of zombies to try to save his own life! This scene was so unexpected that it made me laugh really hard! The ending is nice too, but the movie is so short and, if not for those two points, it would be almost worthless. If you're a big zombie film fan, you've seen better and this won't satisfy you.
But we can only applaud the director and everyone who participated in this movie (unpaid actors and all...) for trying to release such a film in a market that has no place for it. I doubt this will create a horror industry in Portugal, but the effort is commendable! -
Horst_In_Translation20 January 2016"I'll See You in My Dreams" is a Portuguese 20-minute horror short film from over 10 years ago written and directed by Miguel Ángel Vivas. It takes us basically into a world, similar to the one of "The Walking Dead", which is overrun by zombies and people who get bitten become zombies too. It is a bit scary, but the only real strength in this film is not the drama, but the comedy. I am just not sure if this was intended by Vivas. The scene in the bar with the annoying other guy looks like a funny little spoof and the scenes with the main character's transformed wife while he gives it to the other hottie are somewhat funny, just like the ending in which he throws the chick to the zombies. Obviously, the unhappy(?) ending shows that this film does not take itself serious at all in terms of the protagonist having transformed as well. He is also not too likable with what he did when he caught his wife with the other guy. Badass maybe. likable no. As a whole, this short film is solid at best, sometimes really not great at all and I do not recommend the watch.