But the result is one of
the best zombie films ever.
This is literally one of
the best zombie films I have seen in a long time!
In the latest episode of our VODcast, Scott Weinberg looks at
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28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead and the remake of Dawn of the Dead were
the best zombie films we'd seen in years, and I think everyone else should leave it alone for now.
Director Colm McCarthy's The Girl With All the Gifts is one of
the best zombie films ever made, and this Blu - ray release from Lionsgate is a solid treatment for this relatively low - budget marvel.
I would suggest avoiding this one at all costs — there are many
better zombie films to spend your time with.
Not exact matches
In fact, enough for an entire second Blu - ray disc: On disc one, there's a commentary track with star Ian McCulloch and
zombie film expert Jay Slater, as
well as trailers, TV and radio spots, and a poster and still gallery.
Another factor is that the trailers and other advertisements leading up to the release of the
film already show you the climaxes of the
best scenes, from the aforementioned traffic jam, the
zombie horde working in unison to scale a great wall, as
well as jumping onto helicopters that foolishly get too close.
More detailed gore and suffering were likely shorn to ensure an already budget - bloated production had the
best possible chances of recouping its cost with the broadest possible audience, but a
zombie film does need gore, and the restored material could've been a little bit nastier.
There's nothing that scary here, but there's some
good tension built up and the
zombie kids, while you can probably take one at a time, when they swarm you then they become viable threats, at least for what the
film is trying to accomplish.
The movie is about a group of friends, apparently brothers and sisters as
well, who are
filming a horror movie about a
zombie with jaundice or something like that.
director Mike Mendez — that, while it has a charming sense of humor about itself, leans too heavily on CGI blood; The Girl With All The Gifts (B), a
well - shot British
zombie film that attempts to inject new life into a tired genre, and almost succeeds thanks to young star Sennia Nanua; and the disappointing Phantasm: Ravager (C --RRB-, a low - budget labor of love which, while it plays like a Phantasm fan
film, ultimately undercuts the emotional closure it attempts to bring to the franchise by failing to resolve the central conflict between
good and evil.
While I agree that 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later are
good films I have never considered them
zombie films because they aren't
zombies.
Run is the very first Cambodian
zombie film ever made, and thus consequently Cambodia's
best ever
zombie film.
Les Affamés definitely isn't the gore fest the Romero - type
zombie movies usually are, but there are still plenty of jump scares throughout the
film, although, to be fair, they mostly do these
well, thanks to a sparse use of background music and some
well - paced scenes.
They were effusive in their response, as
well as disclosing some of the in - jokes put in the
film by the animators, and, on a serious note, what fantasy in general, and
zombies in particular, can teach bout bullying that makes it both effective and palatable.
Since then he's had a few
good projects, but plenty of duds too, and over the past decade he's
zombied his way through several forgettable
films.
The series was
well out front of the
zombie craze that preceded The Walking Dead and WWZ, and it became one of the rare action
film franchises anchored by an actress.
Ryuhei Kitamura — director of the action - packed Japanese
zombie film Versus, as
well as Alive, Godzilla: Final Wars, Lionsgate's Clive Barker adaptation of The Midnight Meat Train, and WWE's slasher No...
The Cannes
Film Festival has proven a fertile space for the release of the
best the country has on offer to Western markets, and following the success of Yeon - Sang - ho's extraordinary
zombie film Train to Busan in 2016, Cannes» Midnight Screenings this year featured Jung Byung - gil's high - octane female - centred action movie The Villainess.
The Internship Poster «Movement is life, treatment» says former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) in the new
film World War Z. He's referring to the
best way to survive the apocalyptic
zombie attacks that are quickly destroying the human race.
Whether you're hiding from Godzilla or fleeing the
zombie masses, some
films prove you might just be
better off flinging yourself into the sea
So we've assembled our take on the 50
best horror
films of the 21st century — the
zombie - apocalypse tales, things - that - go - bump - in - the - psyche ghost stories, retro - slasher flicks, neo-giallo nuggets, J - horror, K - horror, French extreme and Hollywood franchise
films that have spooked us, shook us and scared us shitless since 2000.
Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid
well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular
films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more
zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).
His
best film is his first, Dawn of the Dead, but even that pales in comparison to the
zombie film that came two years before it: 28 Days Later.
Danny Boyle is one of the more underrated mainstream directors working today; he's been able to spin
films as different as pitch - black comedy (Trainspotting) to apocalyptic
zombie thriller (28 Days Later) with genuinely
good results (let us not speak of The Beach).
Although it works
better as a romantic comedy than as a horror movie, this
film is cute and breezy with a likable cast that might help
zombie fans overlook the glaring lack of gore.
Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their
film takes the elaborately overdone
zombie genre and resuscitates it, while also taking and revamping a handful of
well - established genre tropes ---- apocalypse premise, creepy kids, mad scientists ---- and tweaks them in eccentric and imaginative new ways.
It also is one of those
films that plays
well with both males and females by giving them each a storyline that they can appreciate — such as the
zombie apocalypse, plus a love story.
Jim Mickle's indie Stake Land was one of 2010's
best horror
films — its post-apocalyptic road movie structure was familiar, but its gritty use of vampires (instead of, say,
zombies) was distinctive.
Vengeance of the
Zombies certainly has the feel of two separate
films that don't really mesh that
well together.
Though Eisenberg's excessive voiceover narration bogs down the first act, the
film quickly evolves into a crackling
zombie romp powered by a clever script, goofy physical comedy — the filmmakers get a lot of mileage out of Harrelson's amusingly over-the-top means of dispatching the undead — and the yin - yang comic chemistry of the eternally adorable Eisenberg and
good - ol» - boy Harrelson.
I don't do
well with the nihilism and anxiety and gore that I (possibly wrongly) associate with
zombie films.
The HFCS were split over their picks for the year's
best new filmmakers and their debut films, as Henry Hobson's Arnold Schwarzenegger - starring zombie drama, «Maggie,» tied with Alex Garland's stylish sci - fi thriller, «Ex Machina» (which also tied with Ridley Scott's «The Martian» for Best Sci - Fi Fi
best new filmmakers and their debut
films, as Henry Hobson's Arnold Schwarzenegger - starring
zombie drama, «Maggie,» tied with Alex Garland's stylish sci - fi thriller, «Ex Machina» (which also tied with Ridley Scott's «The Martian» for
Best Sci - Fi Fi
Best Sci - Fi Film).
The $ 30,000 Canada Goose Award for
best Canadian feature
film went to Robin Aubert's
zombie film Les Affames.
With their critically - acclaimed 28 Days Later, British writer Alex Garland and director Danny Boyle proved both that the
zombie film was ripe for a new twist and that they could make a really
good horror movie in their first try.
Indeed, not since Shaun or Dawn (2004) has a
zombie film mixed horror, comedy and character work so
well.
Better (certainly classier) than most
films directed by the late Wes Craven, this
zombie flick («inspired» by the factual book by Wade Davis) still registers as an also - ran in the horror sweepstakes.
Milla Jovovich has carried the RESIDENT EVIL franchise as Alice for five
films now and they have all displayed some of the
best zombie - killing action to ever grace the big screen.
And so we come to the end of our list and what
better way to finish off than with Marc Forster's WORLD WAR Z. Now, I will admit that at first I was not the biggest fan of the
film due to its lack of blood, lack of traditional
zombie characteristics and its over-commercialization, however I have come to warm to it for a number of reasons that even I can't overlook.
Easily the
best thing to happen to the undead since 28 Days Later, this unusually thoughtful
zombie film peps up tired blood with fresh ideas.
The
film's ambient, grungy soundtrack fits
well with the attitude of the forlorn Adam (Tom Hiddleston), sitting around in darkness and obsessing over music and guitar models while he scoffs at the «
zombies» outside his apartment.
The Internship Poster «Movement is life, treatment» says former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) in the new
film World War Z. He's referring to the
best way to survive the apocalyptic
zombie attacks that are quickly...
And, yes, the actual ineffectiveness of a crossbow in a
zombie apocalypse is (overly) called out though this little exchange did make for the
best moment in the
film.
Why is it that
good actors in career stasis so often wind up in
zombie films?
Cemetery Man is Soavi's
best film, and one of the most uniquely philosophical
zombie movies ever made, and, I think, definitely superior to The Church.
In fact, despite the addition of «
zombies» to the title, the
film works
better as an adaptation of «Pride and Prejudice» than the action comedy it strives to be.
This connection is rooted in the strong association the monster has with the notion of the «return» in
film theory, as
well as the
zombie's unique capacity to corporealize the theory of polymorphous perversity, and hence, aspects of Liberation - era thought.
The
film's
best idea is to present the
zombies as insectile, clambering over one another in complete disregard of personal space.
Not a game - changer in the genre of stop - motion animation, but I think this is a
good introduction to horror and
zombie films for kids.