They make zombie movies for every mood, ranging from knockabout gore comedy to low - key art cinema.
Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from
making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.
Credit Freyne for ambition — he's trying to
make a zombie movie with a certain amount of discretion, and evoke sympathy for at least some of those who've perpetrated unspeakable actions.
Synopsis: In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters (Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso) are
making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera.
At a time when everyone and his brother was
making zombie movies, French horror filmmakers isolated themselves by reconstructing the survival / slasher film.
You think we're gonna be
making zombie movies forever?»
No, it's serviceable fare more fatally wounded by the prevarication of
making a zombie movie featuring millions upon millions of deaths (hundreds shown) within the chaste confines of the PG - 13 rating.
In director Colm McCarthy's newest film - The Girl with All the Gifts, he has
made a zombie movie that feels entirely unique in it's own way, making themes of science, freedom of choice, and nature vs. nurture as the main focal point of a group of people surviving a zombie outbreak.
Not exact matches
If the bible was written during modern times it would have been labeled as fiction and
made into a blockbuster
movie staring Tom Cruse as
zombie Jesus.
Honestly, it was one of the best
movies I'd ever seen — mainly because it
made me realize most of us walk round like
zombies all our love lives.
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After seeing «World War Z,» I walked through Times Square, and, as I
made my way to the subway, I wondered why the
movie — which is, after all, just a very expensive
zombie flick — had excited and disturbed me so much.
It's time to gather a few buds, dip into the theatrical
make - up kit — there's always someone in the gang that has one — don your tattered clothing and gear up with your best
zombie look for a trip to the
movies.
It's just the lines and behaviors of the characters that
make it so cheesy and typical for a
zombie - apocalypse
movie.
It was on a trio of serials that Brannon directed by himself — King of the Rocket Men (1949), Radar Men From the Moon (1952), and
Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)-- that he
made his biggest mark on
movies, however.
As a result, it would be a decade before Romero
made his second
zombie movie, Dawn of the Dead.
Just because they do them well, though, doesn't
make the
movie less reliant on shock value than any other
zombie flicks.
In recent years the
zombie movie genre has sprouted a little comedy sub genre, the zom - com if you will, and Jeff Baena, who
made I Heart Huckabees, writes and directs this latest addition to the sub genre.
After all,
zombies and other
movie monsters are always representations of some kind of human or social anxiety; the fact that they are metaphors for something different this time (i.e. the fear of change and of standing still) doesn't
make it bad.
For those who are concerned about the PG - 13 nature of the
movie castrating the
zombies, I say let those hang - ups go; there are plenty of
zombie makeup effects to satiate your lust for decrepit corpses, and the absence of buckets of blood almost
makes it refreshing in a sense.
A more ambitious
movie might have
made something more about the ultimate integration of
zombies into regular society, and the inequality that might have created, but this one merely opens its heart and suggests that goodness would prevail.
A Norwegian
made movie, Dead Snow is a throwback to the elimination slasher flicks of the»80s with heaping handfuls of cult
zombie.
Considering the incoherent shambles he
made out of his James Bond
movie, «Quantum of Solace,» Forster handles the large - scale action here with considerable aplomb and much striking imagery, enhanced by the seamless mix of choreography, prosthetics and CG that bring the herking, jerking
zombies to «life.»
«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.
Kicking off with a Grindhouse style clip of a
zombie film with a synth soundscape that would
make filmmaker John Carpenter proud, it's clear that «Paranorman» is
made by people with a love for the macabre side of
movies.
This dramatic and introspective Canadian
movie about a Civil War vet
making his way through a
zombie apocalypse plays like a 19th century feature film version of The Walking Dead.
In an age saturated with
zombie movies and TV shows, I Am a Hero does something I thought impossible: It
makes zombies terrifying again.
On one side is the recreational
zombie movie the kids are
making to submit to a local film festival.
We can't seem to move these days without stumbling into the path of a
zombie movie,
making one wonder why walking dead with a penchant for fast food are suddenly so alluring.When George A Romero effectively created the genre in the late Sixties and...
We've read Jane Austen go all Resident Evil on them in Seth Grahame - Smith's 2009 novel Pride and Prejudice and
Zombies, they put the «zom» in the «rom - zom - com» of Shaun of the Dead, and infamous Canadian provocateur Bruce LaBruce even
made a couple of gay romance / porn
movies most notably Otto or, Up With Dead People.
This, a
zombie / alien hoot, became his best - known work and has a reputation as the world
movie ever
made.
Forster deserves credit, I guess, for finding a way to
make a PG - 13
zombie movie without totally softening it.
While conventional is fine (and again,
makes for a perfect date
movie,) Levine and company are doing some pretty original things with
zombies that
makes it truly upsetting they don't go all the way with it.
The original film remains one of the most influential horror
movies ever
made, and the sequel is pretty much the Casablanca of
zombie cinema.
This is one of the most well
made, exciting, emotionally engaging
zombie movies I've seen, and it's a must - see (in particular) for fans of the genre.
The greatest
zombie movie ever
made, who needs Romero when you have Jackson?
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.
For all of its many flaws (emphasis on MANY), Lucio Fulci's 1979 B -
movie near masterpiece «
Zombie» (a.k.a. a slew of other titles) has enough worm - ridden
zombie flesh, horrendously fake yet appalling gore, and completely superfluous female nudity to
make this a winner.
Paramount is lining up a new thriller, and they want the writer behind the
movie that
made you realize
zombies are way scarier than you had previously imagined.
Whereas Shaun twisted and
made light of the
zombie genre, Hot Fuzz pokes fun at the cop buddy
movie made so famous by
movies like «Lethal Weapon» and «Rush Hour.»
It's never actually scary and has an unexpectedly slim amount of Z - day encounters, but
makes up for frights with some dial - moving FX — including some killer
zombie slayings — and smooth monster
movie ideology.
Having thoroughly sent up, worked over, and skewered
zombie movies (Shaun of the Dead) and buddy - cop action pics (Hot Fuzz), it
makes sense that writer / director Edgar Wright and his crew - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and a scrum of like - minded Brits - would fix their sights on another well - trod genre.
Not only had they
made the most accessible
zombie movie ever, they had done it with style and lots of humor, convincing viewers that these three individuals must be among England's funniest and most likable blokes.
Taylor, who
made the Crank films and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance with Mark Neveldine, playfully references several genres — cheesy family comedies, US high school dramas,
zombie movies and the Home Alone franchise.
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.
That, and the only known
zombie - versus - shark scene in
movie history,
make this flick a classic.
It's just a bunch of Hollywood friends finding a creative way to rip on each other and indulge their inner - child
movie -
making adventures (i.e. surviving a
zombie takeover and / or being a Ghostbuster and what not).
It's not as distressing a change as it has been
made out to be, but it doesn't quite satisfy you in the way smaller
zombie movies would.
A map detailing the
zombie outbreaks depicted in films, a timeline of apocalyptic
movies and an illustrated analysis of Judd Apatow's secret for success — these and more
make this fun book a visual feast for
movie lovers of all kinds.
The show and
movies like Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland helped
make our undead brethren mainstream and thus
zombie comics became the new superhero comics — they were everywhere.