«Haze and Fog» is a new type
of zombie movie set in modern China and made by one of the most important Chinese artists working today.
The kids drive one narrative involving the
making of the zombie movie, Joe and Alice deal with parental absence and the strain of a changing familial structure, with a more menacing and real monster movie circling around those stories.
I think that it's misleading, that a lot of people go in thinking we're taking the piss out
of zombie movies when really zombie movies are what we love best.
Shaun of the Dead — Edgar Wright's delightful spoof
of zombie movies came out in 1994, not long after «28 Days Later» herded the flesh - eating undead into Britain.
Their first outing, Shaun of the Dead, was a (mildly) amusing
spoof of both zombie movies and British society in general, and in attempting to follow that with a new twist on «buddy cop» films, they are often more miss than hit.
I'm a bit
tired of zombie movies these days to be honest, but I have faith in the Koreans to inject a bit of fresh blood into the genre and from what I'd heard, Train to Busan had done just that.
Like characters in one
of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and...
Cao Fei «s Haze and Fog is a new
type of zombie movie set in modern China made by one of the most important Chinese artists working today.
The scariest
depiction of zombie movies and video games have nothing on you as you stumble to the kitchen in the mornings mumbling, «Booooobs, Poooooop, Coooooofffeeee.»
One of the new
breed of zombie movies coming out recently, Dead Creatures tries to take a slightly different angle on the genre.
It's been remade a bunch, and that's not counting the cottage
industry of zombie movies that owe their existence to it, but George Romero's original Night of the Living Dead (1968) is a masterpiece of low - budget scares.
The two first found fame with their work on the 2009 film Zombieland, a dark comedy that ran riot with the usual
cliches of zombie movies and television shows.
The continuing
glut of zombie movies hasn't taken any bite out of this social satire, in which slackers find it hard to tell when their fellow citizens start lumbering about and feasting on humans.
I've seen Night of the Living Dead several times in the past, but it's been a long while since I have — and there have been
plenty of zombie movies and games that have filled the gap between then.
We can't seem to move these days without stumbling into the
path of a zombie movie, making one wonder why walking dead with a penchant for fast food are suddenly so alluring.When George A Romero effectively created the genre in the late Sixties and...
Exploitation movies hit their stride in the decade, boldly flouting moral conventions with graphic sex («I Spit on Your Grave,» «Vampyros Lesbos») and violence -LRB-» The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,» «The Hills Have Eyes»), the latter reflected particularly in a
spate of zombie movies («Dawn of the Dead») and cannibal films («The Man From Deep River»).
The form and function of cinematic zombies have shifted throughout the years, but the
presence of the zombie movie within the horror genre has remained a steady force since the early»30s.
Films like «Peeping Tom» and «Psycho» were precursors to the slasher movies of the coming decades, while George Romero's «Night of the Living Dead» changed the
face of zombie movies forever.
Canadians have always been at the
vanguard of zombie movies, from Bob Clark's Deathdream, an inspired variation on the «Monkey's Paw» myth about a reanimated soldier returning to his family, to David Cronenberg's still - amazing Rabid, which cross-bred George A. Romero's gory social satire with soft - core titillation, to Bruce McDonald's underseen, language - is - the - virus thriller Pontypool.
THE TIME MACHINE From Citizen Kane to Marienbad and a
host of zombie movies, the cinema has worked magically to transcend the boundaries of time.
OK, fair enough — but the fact remains that the vast, VAST
majority of zombie movies made in the past few decades have featured Romero brain munchers.
Danny Boyle's «28 Days Later...» rewrote the
rules of zombie movies forevermore (witness the souped up remake of «Dawn of the Dead» that appeared a year later), and includes the boldest opening scene an unknown actor has performed in recent memory: naked — and, if you must know, completely flaccid, and very hairy — in a hospital bed.
«A gentle, lighthearted little send -
up of zombie movies that commits to its own ridiculous premise with complete, un-ironic sincerity.»
«Shaun of the Dead» was a very parochial story set in North London and somehow it managed to get this global reach because everyone understands the
language of zombie movies.»
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''... A lot of people go in thinking we're taking the piss out
of zombie movies when really zombie movies are what we love best.
I just hope there's a narrative that feels conclusive as I'm growing
tired of these zombie movies that end with either a cure or an ambivalent and vague segue as characters continue down a path unknown to the viewer (Romero did this enough, it's time to get creative and do something different).
Like characters in one
of those zombie movies where no one says «zombie,» the crew of the Cloverfield space station — a big metal psilocybin mushroom orbiting near - future Earth — doesn't know what it's in for, having left our planet without ever having seen a single sci - fi horror movie: not Alien, not Event Horizon, and definitely nothing about science gone wrong.
Shaun offers such a witty observation of both a generation and a genre, so well told and acted, that it is an absolute joy, even if you're not a
fan of zombie movies.
As a snowstorm turned Georgia and Alabama into a scene
out of a zombie movie, businesses lent a helping hand.
Taking the piss out
of zombie movies and yet applying by their rules, Shaun is a fun, playful film that pokes fun at Britishness in all its form.