Brainnnssss! Zombies storm Havana cinema festival

[December 10, 2011]  HAVANA (AP) -- The hottest ticket in Havana is a gory, campy zombie flick with a wicked sense of humor about Cuba's obsessive relations with the United States.

Audiences thronged movie houses at Havana's film festival this week to catch screenings of "Juan of the Dead," and organizers had to hastily add extra midnight screenings to accommodate the crush.

It's no spoiler to reveal that even in a city where many buildings are already crumbling, a zombie apocalypse does not change Havana's skyline for the better.

As attacks by the flesh-eating undead mount during the film, the government keeps insisting on nightly newscasts that the attackers are really dissident agitators in league with the United States.

[Associated Press]

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