More zombie movies, games, and TV shows come out every year and there's even a growing zomromcom genre which is bigger than you think.
Not exact matches
But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher
movies (
more numerous); quick - cut
zombie flicks (even
more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the
more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).
My particular favourites are
zombie movies, which probably aren't that great for those who are
more squeamish.
The Daily News dismisses the «spooky stories» constitutional convention opponents are using in their campaign to block a «yes» vote, saying their arguments are «no
more believable than a bad
zombie movie.»
The way in which
zombie movies pose these questions has changed significantly over time, telling us
more about ourselves, and about what we most fear, in the process.
More than one
movie zombie has been known to drool.
«World War Z» isn't your typical
zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the
zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.
A good
zombie movie but also
more notably a good political allegory,»28 Days Later» works off its» innovative director, even if it is not as quick paced as one might hope from a
zombie flick.
Laura is
more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb
zombie by the
movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.
This show takes itself a lot less seriously than TWD, and is a lot
more reminiscent of older
zombie movies.
It Needs: To sustain its humour
more evenly - while the first half is a truly unhinged situation comedy with
zombies, the second half is
more like a
zombie movie with the odd joke.
You can learn
more about this terrifying co-op mode at the official website, you can try your hand at the enigma machine to unlock secrets of the game and learn
more about the characters, and you may just want to binge watch some classic
zombie horror
movies, just so you can be the first to identify those delightful Easter eggs Cameron spoke about.
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.
The film needs
more than just to references other
zombie movies and spoofs.
In between the mindnumbing blandness of countless Living Dead knockoffs, my ongoing inability to understand the inexplicable popularity of The Walking Dead, and a pronounced boredom with this genre's tropes, I had
more or less decided not to bother with
zombie movies (or TV shows!)
Sending up
movies as varied as «The Exorcist,» «Rosemary's Baby,» «Alien,» and anything relating to
zombies and apocalyptic mayhem, «This is the End» provides the ensemble — all principal parts are taken by men — with
more fun than a barrel of monkeys.
The «
Zombies vs. Robots»
movie gets a new title and director, Elle Fanning joins «Neon Demon», Melissa McCarthy's «Michelle Darnell» gets a release date, and
more!
Vivid proof that filmmaking is
more about creativity than money, this micro-budget British
movie takes an inventive approach to the ubiquitous
zombie genre.
Director Steven Spielberg and director J.J. Abram's nostalgic, monster - mash homage to their own
movie - obsessed childhoods, «Super 8» tells the story of a gaggle of»70s kids who accidentally capture something much
more unnerving — and deadly — on their Super 8 film than the homegrown
zombie movie they've set out to shoot.
Although it was completed before similar POV
zombie movie «Diary of the Dead», «The
Zombie Diaries» wasn't released in the US until after the
more famous Romero film.
If you're
more of a
zombie person than vampires and werewolves, you're in luck this blog only reviews
zombie movies and tv shows.
There are plenty of cheesy TV
movies that have cornered that market, and
more than a handful of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about
zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack us.
Now that the cast has been announced for the forthcoming Dead Rising
movie, we're starting to get some
more details about what the film will entail, above and beyond, y» know,
zombies and violence.
28 Days Later is also much
more than a conventional
zombie movie.
Marvel released two
more movie posters for the upcoming film «Thor» by director Kenneth Branagh (Frankenstein) and starring Natalie Portman (Pride and Prejudice and
Zombies), Anthony Hopkins (The Wolfman), Chris Hemsworth (Star Trek), Samuel L. Jackson (The Avengers, Iron Man 2) and Kat Dennings.
Often when it seems like there's nowhere for
zombie movies to go, a little out - of - left - field film comes along to prove you wrong, squeezing a smidgen
more life out of the genre's exhausted conventions.
Any
zombie flick clearly owes its existence to George Romero, but this
movie with updated effects and a
more modern feel is even
more fun to watch than Romero's efforts, as those films show their age a bit too often.
While the UK trailer for Pride and Prejudice and
Zombies has
more bloodshed, the newly released U.S. version ties the Black Plague into the rising of the undead, while also letting audiences known this
movie focuses on the Bennett sisters — Elizabeth (Lily James), Lydia (Ellie Bamber), Mary (Millie Brady), Jane (Bella Heathcote), and Kitty (Suki Waterhouse)-- several badass women who have been trained to brutally slay the undead.
I'll give that vampire
movies can go
more places than
zombie movies.
Undead or Alive, a
movie about
zombies in the Old West, was barely getting
more than a raised eyebrow from me.
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.
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 Last of Us is hardly worth the praise that it got either because the story which is apparently «revolutionary» in gameplay narrative is in actuality nothing
more than a
zombie movie with barely any gameplay.
I have never played any previous Telltale's games, so The Walking Dead was a little weird for me in that it didn't feel like a traditional
zombie game,
more like an interactive
movie.
Let me remind you about a time before the
movie 28 days later was released, when
zombies walked instead of ran, bit instead of shot and
more importantly used their numbers to keep the pressure on.
The already successful
zombie apocalypse survival game is already a big hit, has a
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However, unlike previous entries, which have presented the Zombie Mode in a somewhat fun and campy style, Call of Duty: WWII «s «Nazi
Zombies» campaign has a much
more like a serious horror
movie feel.