Horror · Feature film
From John A. Russo of Night of the Living Dead
An Ani Kyd Wolf Film
Sixteen years after the 1968 zombie plague, a haunted deputy goes undercover at a remote medical center, where the living dead are about to walk again.
The story
1968. The zombie plague is ending, and an armed posse is burning the living dead in Evans City Cemetery.
Dr. Harold Ormsby and his lab team are collecting “specimens” to find a cure, until a not-quite-immobilised zombie bites him in the throat. Against their better judgement, the sheriff and his deputy let the scientists try to save him, unwittingly setting up the conditions for the living dead to walk again.
Sixteen years later, Deputy Jeff Sanders is still haunted by what he saw. Dr. Ormsby is the only person ever to survive a zombie bite, and locals whisper that he saved himself with a serum made from zombie blood. Sent undercover to the Ormsby Medical Center, Jeff crosses paths with a frightened family, a strange teenage girl named Tiffany and a trail of bodies on a lonely highway.
When the family’s wrecked car limps into the Ormsby compound, they find themselves trapped by the demented doctor, his secretive wife and his even stranger daughters, and a pack of the living dead.
Why this film
Written by John A. Russo, co-writer of the 1968 horror classic.
From the executive producer of The Night They Came Home, released by Lionsgate.
A horror story in the tradition of Get Out, Evil Dead and Halloween.
The case · Proven returns
Night of the Living Dead
John Russo’s genre-defining original, the benchmark for horror ROI.
Worldwide box office vs. production budget
$114,000 budget → $30.1M worldwide
Box office figures are for the films named, from public sources. They are not a projection or guarantee of results for Spawn of the Living Dead.
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The filmmakers
Co-writer of the screenplay for Night of the Living Dead, with twenty books published internationally and nineteen feature films in worldwide distribution, including The Return of the Living Dead and Midnight. Quentin Tarantino is among the filmmakers who credit Russo’s books on independent production with helping launch their careers.
A Canadian Métis producer, director, writer and musician with 30 years in entertainment and CEO of Sugar Skull Films. She executive produced The Night They Came Home, written by John Russo and released by Lionsgate in 2024, and produced the biopic The Silent Natural.
Cast
Company details
Spawn of the Living Dead is being financed alongside Organism 46-B. For investment, partnership or distribution enquiries, book a call with producer Nuala Quinn-Barton or email us for the investor package.