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Brain Freeze (2021)

Brain Freeze poster
Directed by
Julien Knafo
Genre
zombie comedy
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
16
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 51 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A teenager and a survivalist must protect a baby in a gated Montreal community. A fertilizer that melts snow turns the residents into zombies.

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What happens

Brain Freeze is a 2021 French-Canadian horror comedy film, written, directed, and scored by Julien Knafo. A satire of class warfare, the film is set in a gated community in Montreal where the neighbourhood golf course has sprayed its grounds with a new experimental fertilizer that automatically melts the snow in winter so that its rich patrons can play golf all year round, but which in turn has contaminated the local water supply and is turning the residents into zombies. Against this backdrop, teenager André (Iani Bédard) must team up with survivalist Dan (Roy Dupuis) to protect themselves and André's baby sister Annie. The film's cast also includes Marianne Fortier, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Claudia Ferri, Mylène Mackay, Stéphane Crête, Mahée Paiement, Jean-Pierre Bergeron and Simon Olivier Fecteau. It premiered as the opening film of the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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