Watch short film The First Wave now
Irish production company Tilted Pictures are developing a feature film called The Third Wave, with support from the Irish Film Board. In the meantime, they have released a "prequel" short film called The First Wave.
Online just a couple of weeks, it has already notched up over 70,000 views on YouTube. Examiner.com calls it "awesome" and says that it "puts all recent zombie movies to shame".
Watch The First Wave here.
The story of The First Wave: Following the outbreak of an aggressive virus, a young woman awakes in a hospital bed. As the horrifying events that led her there are revealed, it becomes clear that the cure is just the beginning.
This short film is a prequel for the feature film, The Third Wave, which was written at the Binger FilmLab 2012. The project also won the Best Story Pitch award at the Edinburgh Film Festival in June 2012. Directed by David Freyne and produced by Rory Dungan and Rachael O’Kane for Tilted Pictures, it is being developed with support from the Irish Film Board.