Danville Native's Obsession with the Undead Comes to Life
Filmmaker Brandon Hunt makes his directorial debut with zombie flick, "The Duty of Living."
It can't be often Danville cops have to respond to calls of soldiers running through town armed with M-16s. But that's exactly what happened twice in one day last September. The man responsible? Twenty-seven-year-old Danville native Brandon Hunt, a filmmaker with an admitted obsession with zombies, comics and campy horror flicks. The army guys invading the quiet streets off Diablo Road near Ackerman Drive were actors in his debut living-dead movie, "The Duty of Living." Lesson learned, he said: "Next time I'll warn police ahead of time." Hunt—whose right arm is inked up with comic-book-style zombie silhouettes— has dabbled in cinema since he first laid hands on his parents' Panasonic camcorder as a 14-year-old. What his folks used to …
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