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 →
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 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.
Furthermore, while humanity appears to be winning out or returning to normal in a good
portion of zombie films, Dawn ends in a place of great ambiguity.
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.
Opening with the eponymous girl locked in a cell and counting upwards to a thousand, The Girl With All The Gifts may as well be ticking off the sheer
number of zombie films that a fan of the genre is...
His loosely connected «Cornetto Trilogy» (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End), which he co-wrote with longtime collaborator and star Simon Pegg, gleefully played with the
conventions of the zombie film, police procedural, and alien invasion movie, respectively.
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..
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.
of zombie films, there have been the good (28 Days Later), the bad (Dead Creatures) and the average (Resident Evil).
REVIEW: CARGO is another one
of those zombie films, like 28 DAYS LATER, where the «Z - word» is never mentioned.