One Cut of the Dead (2017) on Netflix
A crew shoots a low-budget zombie movie inside an abandoned water filtration plant. Director Higurashi, in debt, has a pentagram of blood painted on the floor to bring real zombies to life.
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- Netflix4.4/5
- IMDb7.6/1036,277 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes100%
Trailer
Plot summary
The crew is shooting a film called True Fear inside an abandoned water filtration plant, and Higurashi, its director, is frustrated with the actors' work. Drowning in debts, he has a blood pentagram painted on the plant floor to bring real zombies back to life, following the building's haunted history. The cameraman turns, biting assistant director Kasahara, who turns too. Actress Chinatsu, actor Ko and makeup artist Nao bar the zombies out of the plant, but Higurashi wants the cameras rolling on the real undead. He drags the zombified sound engineer back inside and throws him at the actors.
Cast
- Ayana Gôdaas Ayana Kurihara
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about One Cut of the Dead (2017)
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- Playwright Ryoichi Wada said in August 2018 that One Cut of the Dead adapted his play Ghost in the Box and that he was consulting his lawyers. Ueda denied plagiarism, and the two agreed to credit Wada and Ghost in the Box in the film.
- For the pandemic short One Cut of the Dead Mission: Remote, Shin'ichirō Ueda wrote the script in one night and gave the actors instructions by video conference. They shot selfie footage in character and sent it to him through a smartphone messaging app.
- Rotten Tomatoes ranked One Cut of the Dead the best found footage film ever made, and as of July 2025 it is the only found footage film to have received a 100% rating there.
