Goal of the Dead Trailer Hits and It looks Big and Maybe Too Serious

The movie looks slick and much bigger than I expected. It also looks painfully serious. I hope it has at least some levity (I can’t really tell if it does, the trailer is in French) considering we’re dealing with a soccer team battling the undead. Benjamin Rocher (The Horde) directs with Thierry Poiraud. Heres’s the synopsis…

Saturday, the 18th of January 2012. A quarter of an hour before the match. An hour before the Apocalypse. In a small village in the north-east of France, Caplongue, lays a nuclear power plant, an industrialized agriculture and a church lower than its unemployment rate but also, the football team, which managed to reach the 1/32nd French Final Cup with a lot of courage and talent. The village is all the more jubilating at the idea of receiving the Paris Olympic, a top league club with famous footballers.For the Paris Olympic, it’s the opposite. The team mustn’t lose. This match, which was supposed to be a formality, has become of paramount importance. Between Paris and Caplongue, there is more than 250kms. It’s a match that opposes the rural to the urban world, the amateurs to the professionals, a province town to the capital, the poor to the rich. While the amateurs give a rough ride to the professionals, an epidemic instantly transforms the players, the spectators and the inhabitants into strange and enraged creatures.