I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve always dug viral marketing. Today we have a viral video from HAROLD’S GOING STIFF in which a zombie teacher attacks his students. You don’t normally get that kind of intensity from a horror/comedy, so maybe this one will be something special. Here’s the plot:
Lonely pensioner Harold Gimble has become the first man to suffer from a new neurological disease that is slowly turning him into a zombie-like state. Harold’s hermit-like existence is shaken up when a vivacious nurse, Penny Rudge, is sent along to alleviate his stiffness. Her ‘special’ massage techniques work a treat on Harold and they become close friends.
Harold agrees to trial a possible cure for the disease at a private institute, and the initial results are excellent. But the following day he’s in an even worse state than before, and after Penny accidentally overhears the doctor’s dire prognosis for Harold she decides to sneak him away the next morning.
Word soon gets out, and before long a small group of bloodthirsty thugs are pursuing Harold and Penny across dramatic moorlands in the hope of a kill.
The film comes out of the UK courtesy of Frisson Films. It is written and directed by Keith Wright and stars Stan Rowe, Sarah Spencer, Andy Pandini, Lee Thompson, Richard Harrison and Phil Gascoyne. The indie flick was shot in only six days on a handheld Canon SLR camera. It should see the light of day this year.