History Film / JuanOfTheDead

* TitleDrop: Juan sets up a business killing zombies and calls it: "Juan of the Dead, we kill your beloved ones".

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Played with. Lázaro tries to invoke this when he boasts to Primo that they used to call him "the Normandy butcher." [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted when he confesses it was because of his job slicing steaks at the Normandy hotel]].

* WaifFu: Much to Juan's surprise, the petite Camila is very comfortable using a small axe against "dissidents", even [[spoiler:vaulting upon a zombie's shoulders and sinking her axe into his skull]].

* AfraidOfBlood: El Primo is immensely strong and willing to fight, but instantly keels over at the sight of blood. He ends up successfully fighting ''blindfolded''.

* LastRequest: [[spoiler: After Lázaro shows Juan the bite mark, he says that he loves Juan and asks if can give Juan a blowjob as a last act. Immediately subverted when he reveals that he just joking.]] And [[spoiler: he doesn't die.]]

* TheAce: The English-speaking former aid-worker. Up until the moment [[spoiler: Lázaro accidentally shoots him in the chest with his speargun.]]

** The aid-worker has a decidedly more badass version. He is introduced firing a harpoon from a car into a pole then driving around in a circle so the attached cable slices through a horde of surrounding zombies.

* ShoutOut: The aid-worker says he will "[[{{Film/Braindead}} kick arse for the lord]]".

* TheSlacker: Juan, Lázaro and California all qualify, to varying degrees. For example, Juan is not interested in moving to Florida like many others want to do, because over there he would have to work hard to make a living. In Cuba, he can get by while doing very little.
* SleepCute: Juan and his daughter do a variation on this at one point.

AKA ''Juan de los Muertos'', 2011 horror/comedy film about a ZombieApocalypse, filmed in, of all places, UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}. The eponymous protagonist is a fortyish slacker who lives in Havana, eking out a living with occasional low-rent fishing expeditions with his friend Lazaro, and attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter. When a zombie contagion starts spreading among the city's populous, he first ignores the problem, then rounds a few of his cohorts and establishes a for-profit zombie-killing service. Until, inevitably, events spiral further out of control, and the gang are forced to find a way to survive or flee the island...

* TheAce: The English-speaking former aid-worker. Up until the moment [[spoiler: Lazaro accidentally shoots him in the chest with his speargun.]]

* BigWhat: Juan notices how close to each other his daughter Camila and [[TheSlacker slacker]] California are getting, so he decides to talk to each other separately. California gets a ShovelTalk. As for Camila, he warns her about California [[BlatantLies having herpes, which is false]]. California's reaction:

* BlatantLies: The news reports keep claiming that the {{Flesh Eating Zombie}}s are dissidents being paid by the U.S. government and that the military has the whole situation under control so people should go about their daily lives despite random buildings blowing up and the hordes of undead flooding the streets.

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler: La China gets turned into a zombie, thrown off a building and then Juan re-kills him with his oar while El Primo is ripped apart by a horde of zombies in the shelter.]]
* CallingParentsByTheirName: Camila spends the whole movie referring to Juan by his name. It is not until the ending, when she realizes that he is going to stay behind and fight back, that she calls him "papá".

** While out looting, an old guy in a wheelchair begs for help and Juan sends Lázaro and California to go help him. They come back with carrying their loot in the wheelchair. Lázaro says that the old man died and they left him behind. California says that it wasn't necessarily in that order.

* DwindlingParty: Subverted. China takes a bite and makes it back to Juan's building, only to die, turn, and need killing. Then Primo, proud of his great strength, breaks open a shelter, which turns out to have already been full of zombies. They drag him in. Then Lazaro reveals he's been bitten [[spoiler:but it never broke the skin, so he'll live]].

** Lázaro accidentally kills the zombie that he and Juan find at sea[[spoiler:, the elderly neighbor and the aid-worker]] with a spear-gun.

* MacheteMayhem: Lázaro's weapon.
* NotSoRemote: Done in the film's first scene, when it appears that Juan and Lazaro are in the middle of nowhere on their raft, only for it to be revealed that they are in Havana's harbor barely ten minutes from shore.

* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: It specifically stated that the zombies have to be killed by damaging the brain. The first zombie that Juan and friends try to kill keeps on attacking even though as a "vampire" it is stabbed with a wooden stake multiple times.
* RunningGag: [[spoiler: Lazaro keeps accidentally shooting people (zombified or otherwise) with his speargun.]]

* SilverBullet: While trying to figure out how to kill the reanimated neighbor, Lazaro suggests that they try shooting it with a silver bullet. Juan points out that they do not have a gun or any silver.
* TheSlacker: Juan, Lazaro and California all qualify, to varying degrees.

* ThreateningShark: Inverted, in that a zombie threatening Juan and Lazaro while they are on their raft gets snatched away by a passing shark.

* TitleDrop: Juan sets up a business killing zombies and calls it: "Juan of the Dead, we kill your loved ones".

* TooDumbToLive: Lazaro. [[spoiler: He somehow survives until the Bolivian Army Ending.]]
* WalkDontSwim: Juan catches up to Lazaro and Sara while they are trying to flee on a raft and while he is talking to Lazaro, Sara disappears into the water. When they notice she is gone and look under the water, they see a vast horde of zombies walking along the seabed.
* WatchingTheSunset: Spoofed
* WellDoneDadGuy: Juan and Lazaro keep trying to connect with and impress their children.

** Averted with [[spoiler: Lazaro]]; he fairly quickly reveals he has been bitten, and it eventually turns out that [[spoiler: the bite didn't penetrate his skin thanks to the wetsuit he always wears.]]

* PunBasedTitle: Riffing off a certain famous [[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 genre title]].

* CallingParentsByTheirFirstName: Camila spends the whole movie referring to Juan by his name. It is not until the ending, when she realizes that he is going to stay behind and fight back, that she calls him "papá".

%%* BolivianArmyEnding

** Averted with the aid-worker who calls them zombies but since he is speaking English, none of the other characters understand him.

* ATeamMontage: Building the escape boat.

* BolivianArmyEnding

* FiveManBand:
** TheHero - Juan
** TheLancer - Lázaro
** TheBigGuy - El Primo
** TheSmartGuy - California.
** TheChick - La China, later Camila

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Juan, pretty much.

* ZombieGait

** The aid-worker has a decidedly more badass version. He is introduced firing a harpoon from a car into a pole then driving around in a circle so the attached cable slices through a horde of surrounding the zombies.
* HeadInTheSandManagement: Rather than deal with the zombies, the authorities claim that they are [[BlatantLies dissidents being paid by the U.S. government]] and organise a protest in front of the U.S. embassy. A large group of unarmed people gathering in one place during a zombie outbreak goes about as well as you think it would.

* LastRequest: [[spoiler: After Lázaro shows Juan the bite mark, he says that he loves Juan and asks if can give Juan a blowjob as a last act. Immediately subverted when he reveals that he just joking.]]

* PunBasedTitle

* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: It specifically stated that the zombies have to be killed by damaging the brain. The first zombie that Juan and friends try to kill keeps on attacking even though it was stabbed with a wooden stake multiple times.

** "How could this be any worse!?" [[spoiler: The lights go out.]] (Juan is understandably [[YouJustHadToSayIt pissed off]] at this one.)

** Averted with [[spoiler: Lazaro]]; he fairly quickly reveals he has been bitten, and it eventually turns out that [[spoiler: the bite didn't penetrate the arm of the wetsuit he always wears.]]

* GentleGiant: El Primo, sort of. He's immensely strong and willing enough to fight, but instantly [[AfraidOfBlood keels over]] at the sight of blood.

AKA ''Juan de los Muertos'', 2011 horror/comedy film about a ZombieApocalypse, filmed in, of all places, UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}. The eponymous protagonist is a fortyish slacker who lives in Havana, eking out a living with occasional low-rent fishing expeditions with his friend Lazaro, and attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter. When a zombie contagion starts spreading among the city's populous, he first ignores the problem, then rounds a few of his cohorts and establishes a for-profit zombie-killing service. Until, inevitably, events spiral further out of control, and the gang are forced to find a way to survive or flee the island..

* DwindlingParty: Subverted. China takes a bite and makes it back to Juan's building, only to die, turn, and need killing. Then Primo, proud of his great strength, breaks open a shelter, which turns out to have already been full of zom. They drag him in. Then Lazaro reveals he's been bitten, and [[spoiler: it never broke the skin, so he'll live]].

** Lázaro accidently kills the zombie that he and Juan find at sea[[spoiler:, the elderly neighbor and the aid-worker]] with a spear-gun.

* HeadInTheSandManagement: Rather than deal with the zombies, the authorities claim that they are [[BlatantLies dissidents being paid by the U.S. government]] and organise a protest in front of the U.S. embassy. A large group of un-armed people gathering in one place during a zombie outbreak goes about as well as you think it would.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Near the end, Juan rescues a small boy and [[spoiler: puts him on the boat with the other survivors as they flee to America while Juan stays to fight zombies. The end credits show that the survivors come back to fight with Juan but what happened to the boy is not explained. Did they somehow manage to get him to America and get back in time or is he still in the boat?]]

* TitleDrop: Jaun sets up a business killing zombies and calls it: "Juan of the Dead, we kill your loved ones".

** "How could this be any worse!?" [[spoiler: The lights go out.]] (Jaun is understandably [[YouJustHadToSayIt pissed off]] at this one.)
* SilverBullet: While trying to figure out how to kill the reanimated neighbor, Lazaro suggests that they try shooting it with a silver bullet. Juan points out that they do not have a gun or any silver.

AKA '''Juan de los Muertos''', 2011 horror/comedy film about a ZombieApocalypse, filmed in, of all places, UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}}. The eponymous protagonist is a fortyish slacker who lives in Havana, eking out a living with occasional low-rent fishing expeditions with his friend Lazaro, and attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter. When a zombie contagion starts spreading among the city's populous, he first ignores the problem, then rounds a few of his cohorts and establishes a for-profit zombie-killing service. Until, inevitably, events spiral further out of control, and the gang are forced to find a way to survive or flee the island..

** "How could this be any worse!?" [[spoiler: The lights go out.]]

* LostAtSea: Parodied in the film's first scene, when it appears that Juan and Lazaro are in the middle of nowhere on their raft, only for it to be revealed that they are in Havana's harbor barely ten minutes from shore.

* RoomFullOfZombies: The padlocked basement the gang breaks into.

** Lázaro accidently kills the zombie that he and Juan find at sea [[spoiler: and the aid-worker]] with a spear-gun.

** Averted with the aid-worker who calls them zombies but since he is speaking english, none of the other characters understand him.