Sentences with phrase «first zombie films»

And, in a horror tradition dating back to the first zombie films, your supposed friends can be the most dangerous factor of all.

This is perhaps the first zombie film that portrayed realistic and relateable characters to the audience, therefore making the action sequences all the more intense because you actually care about them and fear for their safety.

Indeed, The Dead is the first zombie film in a long while where the titular undead provide a greater threat than the living.

Not exact matches

We spoke with Nick on the day his first feature film, the seriously twisted zombie apocalypse comedy Range 15, hit theaters (and hit them hard.)

The event will be an interactive talk on the metaphor of the zombie in everyday life, followed by a screening of the first ever zombie film, White Zombie (1932).

Fresh from film school, an enthusiastic young runner starts work on a low budget zombie movie only to run into the first day from hell as a mystery illness starts to turn the extras on set into the bona fide undead.

After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in the zombie comedy Life After Beth.

As the film's star once again tramples across a vast expanse of land — albeit in rather different circumstances to The Hobbit trilogy — first - time feature director duo Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke turn a zombie pandemic into a musing on parental love, environmental destruction and the nation's cultural disharmonies.

Run is the very first Cambodian zombie film ever made, and thus consequently Cambodia's best ever zombie film.

People's newfound obsession with zombies, combined with the even larger following the first Zombieland film has gained since its release, could end up resulting in the success of Zombieland 2.

Aubrey Plaza doesn't look like her usual cool and collected self in the first images from the zombie film Life After Beth.

His first real brush with international acclaim came with «Dead Alive» in 1992 (also known as «Braindead»), which was a gory zombie flick that included some of the most gruesome, outlandish and hilarious effects seen on film since Sam Raimi's «Evil Dead 2.»

The first Troma film in years to get a theatrical run is an aggressively absurd, outrageously gory and comically grotesque horror farce: part Poltergeist, part Alien, part Dead Alive, all zombie chicken musical, with more excruciating puns that you thought was humanly possible.

Today I look at the first film in the trilogy called «Ninjas vs Zombies».

«Entertainment Tonight» will premiere the first trailer for Paramount's epic zombie film «World War Z» on Thursday, but they've already posted up the first footage of the Marc Forster - directed project.From the single protagonist in Pitt to the very CG...

The film promises even more Nazi zombies as the survivor from the first film prepares himself for another zombie attack, but this time is aided by a group of professional zombie killers from America known as «The Zombie Squad».

«We went to film school together in Melbourne,» Whannell reminisces, «and while everybody else was making esoteric movies about sand inspired by Yoko Ono, I saw James» first project about zombies and knew we had a lot in common.

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.

Year: 2008 Lamer Alternate Title: Bikini Bloodbath 2 Plot: Taking Bikini Bloodbath to the next level — a carwash — this slasher sequel pits sudsy college coeds against the zombie chef killed in the first film.

But for the first time in a long time, not only does Schwarzenegger star in a film worthy of his name, but one that's way out of his comfort zone, lending considerable emotional depth to the deadly serious zombie drama, «Maggie.»

Next we had cinema's first zombie, then serial killers, «based on a true story» stories, which led to the fake documentary horror movies, followed by Olympic athlete zombies and, in the last few years, we got the torture porn films.

Hoult, 23, an English actor who starred in zombie rom - com «Warm Bodies,» met Lawrence while they were filming 2011's «X-Men: First Class,» and she later gushed about him in the December 2012 issue of Elle magazine.

The details: Christopher Landon, writer of Disturbia and the last few Paranormal Activity films (not to mention pulling double duty as a first - time director on Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones) returns with an original tale of Boy Scouts and zombies.

The «Twilight» - with - zombies comparison has followed «Warm Bodies» around since its inception, but the first trailer recently revealed the film to be seemingly quite a different beast; closer to a hybrid of «Shaun Of The Dead» and «Perks Of Being A Wallflower.»

So, what if the zombies invaded and the world... just dealt with it?That's the essential premise of «My Boring Zombie Apocalypse,» a six - years - in - the - making first film from director Kevin Perkins.

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.

The sequel «Contracted: Phase II» picks up where the first film left off: Following Samantha's (Najarra Townsend) uncharacteristic seduction, Riley (Matt Mercer) realizes that he's picked up the sexually transmitted zombie virus.

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.

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.

On another more amusing note, ZOMBIELAND is also perhaps the first supernatural action film that actually makes a zombie apocalypse look fun and enjoyable.

When it was first announced that 50/50 director Jonathan Levine would helm an adaptation of the novel Warm Bodies many film - fans dismissed the project as Twilight with zombies.

Initially screening at a number of art house theaters across the U.S., the first live action film from director Yeon Sang - ho drew in scores of watchers, infecting both critics and zombie enthusiasts.

Inspired by Max Brooks» 2006 post-apocalyptic novel «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,» the first film starred Pitt as a former United Nations investigator who must find a way to stop a global zombie pandemic.

The original 1968 film has become iconic in the Horror genre and completely redefined the way we understand «zombies» in the traditional sense; this was the first time zombies by name had been featured as the undead, flesh - eating, slow - moving ghouls we have come to know in countless films and television shows since.

A second edition of the first, but with a new director and cast — the film continues where the first left off, now 28 weeks later from the zombie epidemic.