Zibah Khana

----Pete Tombs----

Zibah Khana

----Urdu / English----

Release date: 30 March 2007

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Zibahkhana (English: Hell's Ground) is an Urdu-English film directed by Omar Khan.
It premiered at the NatFilm Festival in Denmark and has since been screened at festivals all over the world.

This is why Bubonic Film’s first full-length feature, Zibahkhana, comes as such a refreshing surprise.
With a Karachi premier that kicked off on Tuesday, the film proved to draw on local cinematic traditions
and convert them into a well-executed gore fest, which, significantly, bases
its plot on issues relevant to Pakistan, such as polluted drinking water and class/culture divides.

Director Omar A. Khan, a self-professed fan of B-movies and slasher-zombie flicks,
has also long been a Pakistani horror/action film aficionado.
His film is simple in plot: a group of English-speaking boys and girls take an unauthorised road
trip to attend a concert.
They pass through an area where villagers have long been protesting against chemical
pollutants in their water sources, and there are rumours of hideously deformed people.
As night falls and they take an unfortunate short-cut, their worst nightmares come true:
zombies, flesh-eating monsters, and finally, a mace-wielding serial killer.

Directed by

Omar Ali Khan

Produced by

Pete Tombs

Actors

Ashfaq Bhatti
Sultan Billa
Osman Khalid Butt
Rubya Chaudhry
Rooshanie Ejaz
Najma Malik
Salim Meraj
Haider Raza
Rehan
Kunwar Ali Roshan

Cinematography

Najaf Bilgrami

Editing by

Andrew Starke

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