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minor for a second time »  The zombie epidemic finally reaches
Cuba  Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin, who many of us in the
office suspect of being a zombie, alerted me to this story in
Variety that claims filming is set to begin in September on
Cuba's first-ever zombie movie.  Filmmaker Alejandro Brugues
(Personal Belongings) will direct Juan of the Dead, about a
Havana slacker who makes a nice little business hiring himself
out to people who need to dispose of their relatives after the
dead start to rise from their graves on the island. The movie is
budgeted at $2.7 million, which is the Cuban equivalent of a
Transformers picture.    Brugues told Variety more than half of
the budget is coming from Spain and that the film is not a
political satire, even though the Cuban government initially
dismisses the zombie epidemic as the work of dissidents.
Although vampires far outnumber zombies at the movies these
days, the undead refuse to lay down for g