The Dead Don't Die- Night of the living deadpan
The notable American icon of the independent cinema world Jim Jarmusch, has never been one to conform to the norm of cinema elements in narrative and performance. And it's his latest Cannes opening horror flick that takes the idea of the undead quite literally in the zombie pic The Dead Don't Die. The story is set in the aptly named 'Centreville', your classic American small town in the middle of nowhere, as we follow the day to day lives of its inhabitance including the local police duo played by indie darlings Bill Murray and Adam Driver. However, due to the earth turning off its axis due to the polar fracking, the dead are now raising from their graves in classic George A. Romero fashion as the town attempt to deal with this phenomenon in their own strange ways. Firstly as cast lists go, Jarmusch certainly won the lottery for his actors list. With a variety of weird and cooky performances by Tilda Swinton, Steve Buscemi, Chloe Sevigny, Tom Waits, Danny Glover and e