And there is a conclusion — the claim that on the basis that a catastrophe is merely plausible, the institutional apparatus to prevent it is necessary — which has the moral depth
of a zombie film's final moments.
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (Kiah Roache - Turner, 2014) Original low - budget Australian version
of the zombie film made as a weekend - warrior effort over several years.
This is the problem with the rise of the vampire movie and the rise
of the zombie film.
Warm Bodies was a great film that turned our expectations
of a zombie film upside down, making the dead come alive and love again.
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.
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.
It is a totally different type
of zombie film.
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.
Between now and the release of The Final Chapter scores
of zombie films are set to release.
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 →
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of those zombie films, like 28 DAYS LATER, where the «Z - word» is never mentioned.
At least it will never be considered the Twilight
of zombie films.
The lessons are obvious, going over undead identification and useful melee weapons, but who knows, maybe there's someone out there that hasn't already picked up these tips from hundreds
of zombie films, shows, games, comics, etc..
Not exact matches
NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night
of the Living Dead» and other horror
films turned
zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.
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).
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.
«Crucially, the end
of that
film and others
of its time, spoke
of hope and featured the overthrow
of the controlling voodoo master by his «
zombie» slaves,» Dr Pearce explains.
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).
From computer games and
films to organised
zombie walks though Britain's cities, the proliferation
of zombies seems to be everywhere.
The
film's sequels had survivors holing up in places like shopping malls, through which
zombies would wander aimlessly all day, as if retracing the steps
of their former lives as consumers.
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.
Racial conflicts among the
film's living characters end up costing them valuable time and resources; against the backdrop
of attacking
zombies, the racial tension
of the late 1960s seems positively ludicrous.
Like the hilarious but unironically fashioned book The
Zombie Survival Guide (2003), here's a
zombie tale for the 9/11 era, when fantasies
of urban chaos and duct - tape - sealed apartment windows are no longer relegated to horror
films; these paranoid scenarios became regular fare on CNN.
In horror
films, people become
zombies by whatever process is deemed scariest by the filmmaker
of the era — magic, possession, viral infection — but the result is the same.
Spotting a horror -
film zombie should be easy enough, but the
zombies of philosophers» thought experiments are a different matter.
A vacuous entity that wouldn't be out
of place in a post-apocalyptic
zombie horror
film.
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.
In some
of my upcoming fan
films I might play little bit with some
zombies.
There are viral
zombies that are the result
of «real»
zombie virus; the classic walking dead
zombies made popular in the documentary
films of George Romero.
I've seen many
zombie moves in my time, «Dawn
of the Dead» and «Evil Dead» to name a couple, and all the
zombies in those
films want to do is eat you!
Direct - to - video
zombie films will devour the walls
of the few video stores left in existence.
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of zombie feature
films.
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Some
of the
film's most inventive shots are from
zombie - cam POV, as the dead rise, shake off clods
of dirt, and slouch toward the mission church.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed seeing the odd, feral - looking beauty Mireille Enos (
of TV's «The Killing») as Pitt's on - screen wife; I wish she had more to do in the
film than hunker onboard an aircraft carrier with their kids, hoping the
zombies won't learn how to swim.
«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.
In the interest, I suspect,
of holding on to the
film's PG - 13 rating, Forster never lingers on any
of the gory details, which renders the
zombies a bit, heh, toothless.
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.
Trouble Every Day shrouds itself in the aesthetic
of vampires and
zombie lore; the poetry and pain in that
film are innate in the seduction
of venereal destruction, the entanglement
of love and sex, love and hate, sex and death.
The direction by Marc Forster (Quantum
of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) delivers a fast - paced
zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding
of the
film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flick.
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.
More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have an Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the
film lacks strong meat —
of the emotional and bloody
zombie - cannibal sort.
However, because the
film ends just as humanity has managed to reach a positive tipping point, that means 99 %
of WWZ's prior material follows special forces man Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt, who also co-produced the
film) as he struggles to save his family from fast - moving, ravenous
zombies, and then get back to the wife & girls after globe - trotting to hot zones in search
of a solution to the viral contagion.
In the
film production - within - the -
film, the recycled story, during most
of its running time, goes according to plan: the virgin's friends die, leaving Dana alone to kill the redneck
zombies.
The PG - 13 rating keeps much
of the actual violence off the screen, though Forster may have gone too far in removing nearly all
of blood and gory moments that many
zombie - flick fans relish (that crowd has dubbed the
film, «World War Zzzzz»).
Roused from a dormant state by noise, or so the
film posits, the
zombies form an angry hoard that so swarms one on top
of the other that they form a pyramid that allows them to surmount a protecting wall.
Fans
of horror /
zombie movies should enjoy this even if it is a step below quite a few other classic
zombie films.