The idea for the movie came from an audition video I made for a horror movie that was being cast through a social media filmmaking website. Instead of just auditioning to camera, I kind of made a little short film about two friends who were documenting their day-to-day life in the post-zombie wasteland. Needless to say, I was not ultimately cast in the now classic, Perkins 14, but I couldn’t shake the idea of two guys roaming the woods of a zombie infested world. There was a nugget of something in that little video, the idea of keeping the apocalypse off-screen by staying out of the major population areas, that I thought would make for an interesting take on zombies, and at the same time feed into the fact that we would ultimately have an absurdly small budget.
-Jeremy Gardner
