Sentences with phrase «better zombie films»

I would suggest avoiding this one at all costs — there are many better zombie films to spend your time with.

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.

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.

In the latest episode of our VODcast, Scott Weinberg looks at the best zombie films available to stream or buy athttp: / / www.TheHorrorShow.TV

This is literally one of the best zombie films I have seen in a long time!

But the result is one of the best zombie films ever.

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 Fibest 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 FiBest 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.