He called «The Walking Dead» a «soap opera» and said big - budget films like «World War Z» made modest
zombie films impossible.
Characters in
zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.
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).
State - of - the - art
zombie films — most notably 28 Days Later from 2002 and its sequel 28 Weeks Later — now use the undead to explore today's hazier ethical climate.
We're sure you know of the original Italian band Gremlin, that was featured in Italian Splatter Cinema and George A. Romero's
zombie films.
It is widely understood that
zombie films and TV shows set the industry standard for hygiene.
Direct - to - video
zombie films will devour the walls of the few video stores left in existence.
Between now and the release of The Final Chapter scores of
zombie films are set to release.
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.
Fulci fans and
zombie film zealots alike will want to devour Blue Underground's Zombie 2 - Disc Ultimate Edition on Blu - ray.
Attacks come fast and furious now, setting a frenzied pace that later
zombie films like Evil Dead II and Dead Alive will utilize to infinitely more comic effect.
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.
Fans of horror / zombie movies should enjoy this even if it is a step below quite a few other classic
zombie films.
It flouts convention in a number of ways in service of its genre - mash - up agenda while still contributing something original to the tradition of
the zombie film.
We don't really know, since the film doesn't bother explaining its own logic, instead just standing on the shoulders of its predecessors as if to say, «It's
a zombie film, you get it,» which unfortunately amounts to lazy storytelling.
I would suggest avoiding this one at all costs — there are many better
zombie films to spend your time with.
It is a totally different type of
zombie film.
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.
Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's
zombie films.
Back to the film at hand however... while it's not the worst
zombie film I've ever come across, this movie is bad.
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.
In fact, it's not ever the worst
zombie film with Day of the Dead in the title that I've ever seen.
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.
The zombie film has become one of...
The trailer seemed very different than the source material, but over-proliferation of zombie - related content obscures how much of anomaly this picture really is: zombies have always roamed through low - budget settings, but what if someone had some serious dime to throw down on
a zombie film?
Still, as funny
zombie films go, this one works.
A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical
zombie film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).
Run is the very first Cambodian
zombie film ever made, and thus consequently Cambodia's best ever
zombie film.
There's been a lot of
zombie films in recent years, so it's with some trepidation that I sit down to watch another one.
There's been a lot of
zombie films in recent years, so it's with some trepidation Continue reading Shaun of the Dead →
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.
Now,
a zombie film wouldn't be
a zombie film if it weren't a little dorky and embarrassing, and Land of the Dead is just that.
I don't really get the point of the comic
zombie film.
Soavi crafts yet another memorable horror film that is a very entertaining and is sure to delight
zombie film fans.
«And it's a great
zombie film too!»
While zombie movies can be traced back to the 1930s, the modern
zombie film era is generally accepted to have begun with George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
The zombie tale, a hybrid of Scooby - Doo, Night Of The Living Dead, and an always intriguing youth - confronting - scary - monsters premise, seems in line with people's interests and in an animated setting, perhaps
a zombie film can survive the over-saturation of zombie - pop that has been prevalent these last few years.
Zombies make for strange characters in a film about love, or maybe love is just a strange subject for
a zombie film.
What always struck me as odd is that this film is billed as
a zombie film but even Lenzi himself denies that this is about zombies.
Aubrey Plaza doesn't look like her usual cool and collected self in the first images from
the zombie film Life After Beth.
Planet Terror is a 2007 American
zombie film directed by Robert Rodriguez.
It's also hard to call
this a zombie film because the monsters in this movie aren't really zombies, but Doyle truly reinvents the horror genre with this intellectually political and intensely horrifying film.
28 Days Later, because it wasn't your grandfather
zombie film.
It's not easy to make
a zombie film that says something different.
In theaters February 1 from Summit Entertainment is Warm Bodies, a new kind of
zombie film from All the Boys Love Mandy Lane director Jonathan Levine.
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...
Fans of The Rock (Be Cool, The Rundown)-- If you love The Rock but aren't really familiar with the game, or you usually eschew
zombie films, chances are that you will come away with some very strong mixed feelings about Doom.
While Wright was making «Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World,» Pegg and Frost enlisted the help of «Superbad» and «Adventureland» director Greg Mottola to help them make the science - fiction answer to
the zombie film homage «Shaun of the Dead,» and the buddy cop love letter «Hot Fuzz.»
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.
No one can deny that
the zombie film — in all its guises, has been done to the absolute death (sorry).