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Devon Bostick is Dead Tired




Devon Bostick is happy he avoided the brain splatter.

The 18-year-old Toronto native stars in director George A. Romero’s horror Survival of the Dead, the sixth film in Romero’s “Dead” series featuring pesky zombies. The movie should land a limited release before coming out on DVD in the next few months. But regardless of how they see the flick, Romero completists won’t dare miss the director’s latest. This time, two families on a remote island engage in a zombie war involving their undead kinsfolk. Bostick plays a cocky teen who arrives on the island and gets mixed up in the gory feud.

“My character is a surprisingly good shot,” says Bostick on the line from L.A., where he’s auditioning. “So, luckily, I didn’t get hit with much brain residue, since I’d get the zombie with the first shot.”

Bostick — who’s been acting since he was a child (his mother is a casting director and his father an actor) — made a name for himself in director Atom Egoyan’s Adoration (2008) and plays Erica’s brother, Leo, on TV’s Being Erica. But he’s also found a home in horror pics, landing parts in Romero’s previous effort Land of the Dead and Saw VI. And he’s discovered acting in scary movies is gruelling work.

“Zombie films and horror films are ridiculously tiring,” says the actor. “I remember doing Saw VI, I usually eat lunch in the cafe with everyone, but in Saw VI I would go back to my room and sleep because I was tired from screaming. And Survival, it was so tiring because we shot all night. We would start filming at 7 p.m. and finish at 7 a.m., so we would be up all night. We’re having a 4:30 in the morning dinner. Everyone was a little out of it.

“You know, I wasn’t a huge fan of watching horror films,” he continues. “But then I did a few and I saw the amount of work and the amount of dedication on everyone’s part and I just loved them.”

—Ingrid Randoja


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