In nuce: Zombies! The undead! And the living dead anyway! The Spanish VFX service provider El Ranchito (Stranger Things Season 4, Westworld Season 3, The Mandalorian Season 1, etc.) has released a VFX breakdown in which zombies rampage through the action film Valley of the Dead (original title: Malnazidos).
In toto: The film was realised by director Javier Ruiz Caldera. The film is set during the Spanish Civil War. Film critic Elsa Fernández-Santos writes in her review of 11 March this year on elpais.com that Valley of the Dead borrows from the Indiana Jones films and is reminiscent of the classic horror film Night of the Living Dead by George A. Romero. Victor López G. described the film as an “extraordinary zombie feast” on espinof.com on11.10.2020. Imdb.com lists the film’s release date as 2020.
Clicked further: Digital Production has repeatedly reported on the creative work of El Ranchito’s VFX team in the past – two examples are linked below.
- 6.07.2015: The Spanish studio El Ranchito Imagen Digital has released a breakdown video for the episode Hardhome from season 5 of Game of Thrones.
- 21.09.2020: Things get dry as dust in this showreel for the first season of The Mandalorian.
Malnazido’s breakdown
