Sentences with phrase «of zombie genre»

It appears that people are still not tired of the zombie genre in games.

One of the staples of the zombie genre, at least in the initial days of the event, is the confusion and disarray the survivors find themselves in.

The Last of Us utilises all the horror tropes mentioned above, including fast zombies (otherwise known as infected) and the variations which were introduced during the earlier days of the zombie genre.

Is this simply because of the success of the zombie genre and its huge fan base?

The movie giants said the game's gory CGI trailer would serve as the «primary creative inspiration» for the film that will be «an innovation of the zombie genre» due to its «focus on human emotion, family ties and non-linear storytelling».

Death Road To Canada allows fans of the zombie genre to live out their ultimate survival fantasies again and again.

Zombies range from the slow, stumbling types that are a staple of the zombie genre to fast running zombies and giant mutant creatures that have blades for arms.

In its way, films like Fellini's Nights of Cabiria and La dolce vita — in which romantic love is inextricably intertwined with irony and death — predict the Italian embrace of the zombie genre.

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.»

Dead Island: Riptide once again takes advantage of the zombie genre's popularity instead of actually exploring new ways to function within it.

The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016) This film is an interesting reimagining of the zombie genre where the «living dead» are ultimately redeemed through education.

This does look fairly entertaining, but it doesn't seem to be any reinvention of the zombie genre, just another zombie story.

With that come some not - too - subtle nods to the history of the zombie genre, lest you forget that the the shambling brain - munchers started out as a critique of mindless American consumerism.

Combining the horror of flesh - eating monsters with the horrors of public transport, Train to Busan shows us that even the most tired tropes of the zombie genre can be raised from the dead and given new life.

If you are a fan of the zombie genre or an aspiring filmmaker, Birth of the Living Dead is a must watch.

I desperately wanted this game to be stellar, being a huge fan of the zombie genre especially with survival mechanics thrown in the mix.

(There's a lot of meat to be mined in a clever dissection of the zombie genre, in other words, whereas most action flicks of this type are already self - parodying exercises in excessive hetero - affirmation amidst much piece - fondling and weeping.)

Death Road to Canada attempts to offset the normally dark themes of the zombie genre with zany characters, a charming pixel art style, and poppy music, but the lack of depth to its combat and randomly generated content will quickly leave you feeling frustrated and unsatisfied.

Death Road To Canada allows fans of the zombie genre to live out their ultimate survival fantasies again and again.

Not exact matches

Zombies, for one thing, fit into the horror genre in which monstrous creatures — like dangerous predators in our ancestral environment — trigger physiological fight - or - flight reactions such as an increase in heart rate and blood pressure and the release of such stress hormones as cortisol and adrenaline that help us prepare for danger.

This apocalyptic horror thriller is a movie that will appeal less to fans of the genre than to technophobic grumps who reckon mobile phones turn people into mindless zombies.

As Danny Boyle's go - to screenwriter after they brought his first novel, The Beach to the big screen, they injected a shot of adrenaline to the shambling zombie genre in 2000s with 28 Days Later, and turned in a brilliantly sly theological inquiry in the form of a space adventure Sunshine.

It has certain elements from various flicks of the «zombie» genre.

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.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

There are fun little Easter eggs for zombie fans and they are always making fun of the genre.

It's not that it revitalizes a dead genre, but it does give a bit of new life and twist to the zombie genre, while also paying tribute to the classic cult films like Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead, Mad Max, among others.

After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in the zombie comedy Life After Beth.

Both films are post-apocalyptic sci - fi thrillers where the the population of Earth is threatened into nonexistence in a short amount of time, while the survivors do what they can in order to keep from suffering the same fate at the hands of those who have gone rabidly insane — the zombies here aren't the slow, lumbering ones we generally associate with the genre either.

by Walter Chaw Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost return after the triumph of Shaun of the Dead with the nominal success of Hot Fuzz: the one a dead - on skewering of / homage to the zombie genre, the latter an equally - dead - on skewering of / homage to the buddy - cop genre that leads one to conclude that the zombie genre is infinitely more fulsome a target than the buddy - cop genre.

While I can certainly agree with both films not falling squarely in line with the zombies, slashers, and extreme gore features that proudly wave their horror flags, Get Out and The Shape of Water do exist in the peripherals of genre, both featuring monsters of very different ilk.

The 2009 comedy was a big hit with both audiences and critics, putting a smart spin on the zombie genre with an excellent ensemble and one of the best - used...

The zombie genre is here to stay — as evident by the hordes of films and TV shows coming off the success of AMC's hits series The Walking Dead.

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.

The makers of Zombieland would rather tell a straightforward story infused with humor and homage for those who truly appreciate the zombie - horror genre rather than go for broad appeal snarkiness.

Is there a wide audience for a zombie comedy that upends the genre while also delivering one of the most affecting horror tales of the 21st century?

One rumor that had fans excited was the suggestion that Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 would lean more heavily into the zombie genre.

There is no denying that most of us are fans of anything zombie genre.

The gore is plentiful and sometimes inventive (I love the use of a zombie - familiar as traction to one of the eternally - bogged cars in movies like this), and the addition of geek avengers leads to Scream commentary like, «A whole new genre, man.»

«Shaun of the Dead» is a brilliant tribute to the zombie genre.

«It's an inconsistent work overall, but there's enough to like here for fans of the genre (of which I am certainly one) and it's refreshing to see someone work in a register the zombie movies haven't really utilized lately,» observes Brian Tallerico at RogerEbert.com.

In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.

It also briefly raises the intriguing issue of how you can reboot a civilization to prevent the mistakes of the past, but spends most of its time on chases, explosions, zombies, evil scientists, and, as in all movies of this genre, the idea that hot teens are all that can save us.

One of the new breed of zombie movies coming out recently, Dead Creatures tries to take a slightly different angle on the genre.

The zombie genre will (un) live on beyond Life After Beth, a film that feels like a Halloween entry of a Saturday Night Live routine that may have been funny in a short sketch, but can't survive being stretched out over 90 minutes.

I think that the zombie genre gives an opportunity to show many interesting things apart from lots of gore.

The zombie genre may be reaching saturation, but the idea of the legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger taking on hordes of zombies is simply too exciting...

But while Edgar Wright's 2004 debut was a blisteringly funny homage to zombie movies, there's yet to be another film that even comes close to matching its genre - bending wit and sense of fun.

Our time with ZombieSmash has laid to rest our doubts that the genre had wrung out all it could, as ZombieSmash not only looks gorgeous, in a cute Plants vs Zombies kind of way, but has a number of surprisingly original elements to diversify the tired castle defense gameplay too.

In the flood of so many zombie games releasing, how does Fatshark attempt to keep the genre interesting and fresh, and perhaps more importantly, do they succeed?