Death Walks

Death Walks
Directed by	Spencer Hawken
Produced by	Spencer Hawken Lucinda Rhodes
Written by	Spencer Hawken
Starring	Lucinda Rhodes Francesca Ciardi Jessie Williams
Music by	Tom Wolfe
Cinematography	Marcus Uthup Frazer Loveman
Edited by	Spencer Hawken
Production company	Views From The Edge Films
Release date	15 July 2016
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Death Walks is a zero budget horror film directed by Spencer Hawken. The film stars Jessie Williams, Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty, and Francesca Ciardi and will centre on a group of people trying to survive inside a shopping center that is under attack by the dead. Death Walks is Ciardi's first horror film since her role as Faye Daniels in the 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust and her first film role in over 20 years, her last film being 1991's Safari.

In an East London shopping centre, a group of people are warned by a strange Italian woman (Francesca Ciardi) that they are all going to die. Her warnings prove to be all too real, as the shopping center is then attacked by zombies fueled by an evil supernatural power. The 25 people remaining in the shopping centre must band together to survive the night. This is made more difficult by the rising tensions as well as due to the fact that the surrounding town is oblivious of their torment due to a street party.

Hawken began work on Death Walks in the summer of 2013. Filming took place in Romford, London during 2013 and included multiple extras, many of which were volunteers from the surrounding community. Hawken used the town's Mercury Mall shopping center, who donated the use of their space, and was able to complete the film through crowdsourcing techniques. Other supporters either loaned Hawken their supplies for free or donated them. Hawken initially planned for the filming to take place over a 24-hour period, but instead took place over a four-month period. During this time the cast listing swelled from 300 extras to just under 1,000.

Editing for Death Walks is expected to complete in February so the film can be submitted to various film festivals, and a successful Kickstarter campaign was launched in early January 2013 to help with the submission costs. A trailer for Death Walks was released in August 2013. On 16 January 2014 Famous Monsters Of Filmland acknowledged the film's completion as the first zero budget horror film and posted that Hawken was already working on a sequel.