Juan of the Dead isn't just the first Cuban Zombie movie, it's also the first horror movie from Cuba and there's some great footage of inter-city Havana. The social commentary is strong and blatantly obvious, but clever nonetheless. Juan is basically a slacker 40 year old trying to make it in Havana. His daughter is leaving to live with her mother in Miami, he sleeps with a married women and just so happens to come across a zombie while fishing with his friend Lazaro. Once the outbreak grows in scale, Juan teams up with his daughter and friends to fight off the undead. The zombies are well done and there are a couple of creative zombie kill scenes, most notably a baseball right down the middle of a zombie's skull, other than that the gore effects are minimal and the zombie kills are really more comical than they are gruesome. Overall this was a decent zombie film, nothing too exciting or innovating but entertaining nonetheless. I recommend seeing Juan of the Dead if you like Zombie movies, I have the feeling some people may like it more than I do.
Review of Juan of the Dead
