Sentences with phrase «other zombie film»

In other zombie films and TV shows, the ongoing theme and narrative is survival.

The «Evil Dead» series at times had more in common with the Three Stooges and Warner Bros. cartoons than it did with other zombie films like «Night of the Living Dead» and «Dawn of the Dead.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mike Carey's novel and screenplay takes ideas from superhero films like «X-Men» and expects the audience to already know quite a bit of zombie history from other films.

mmm... a protagonist who complete dominates a long film to the detriment of context and the other players in the story (though the abolitionist, limping senator with the black lover does gets close to stealing the show, and is rather more interesting than the hammily - acted Lincoln); Day - Lewis acts like he's focused on getting an Oscar rather than bringing a human being to life - Lincoln as portrayed is a strangely zombie character, an intelligent, articulate zombie, but still a zombie; I greatly appreciate Spielberg's attempt to deal with political process and I appreciate the lack of «action» but somehow the context is missing and after seeing the film I know some more facts but very little about what makes these politicians tick; and the lighting is way too stylised, beautiful but unremittingly unreal, so the film falls between the stools of docufiction and costume drama, with costume drama winning out; and the second subject of the film - slavery - is almost complete absent (unlike Django Unchained) except as a verbal abstraction

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.

In his eloquent fulmination on «the De Palma Conundrum,» The New Yorker's Richard Brody says, «De Palma's peculiar fealty to the history of cinema — his overt dependence upon the films of Alfred Hitchcock and his plethora of references to other classic filmmakers... results in zombie - like movies.»

One of the great frustrations of this film becomes evident in this scene as it becomes clear that humans will never learn to mind their surroundings, particularly in times as dire as these — in other words, the safeguard of Jersulam's 100 - foot walls gives rise to, yep you guessed it: that infamous shot of the pile of crazed zombies.

The film needs more than just to references other zombie movies and spoofs.

The original film focused on a young woman who «develops a taste for human blood after undergoing experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into rabid, blood - thirsty zombies who proceed to infect others, which turns into a city - wide epidemic.»

It's nice to see someone utilizing creatures other than vampires, werewolves and zombies for once, and the concept behind the gargoyles is admittedly clever, but the film has absolutely no soul... or a decent story or performances, for that matter.

Though this year brought us the amazing films listed below, it also brought us Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, The Other Side of the Door, The Forest, and 31.

The film features winks to other zombie titles whilst remaining thoroughly original amongst the subgenre of films (it's certainly no horror film, that's for sure) plus multiple Twin Peaks references and one particularly wonderful nod to St Elmo's Fire.

That's Keiji Inafune, creator of Capcom's Dead Rising series, and none other than Bruce Campbell, the iconic actor of The Evil Dead and other pillars of the zombie - film genre.

Other reliable pros include Bob Dishy, Paul Dooley, Cloris Leachman and Jay O. Sanders, but their efforts count for little in a film (rated PG - 13 for a teen sex fantasy, zombie violence and some language) that's impossible to imagine anyone getting away with except David Lynch.

-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] Like many zombie films, The Cured is a film that can be viewed as a social allegory about fear of «the other.»

All of these beautiful, expressive elements are the reason that I fell in love with this film, but there is one major element that sets LES AFFAMÉS apart from all the other slow - as - molasses zombie films: these zombies scream.

Although Tallahassee's epic Zombie clothesline from a moving amusement ride (among other brilliant ride - orientated zombie kills) is pure adrenaline - filled genius; however, the real reason for the film's tension is because the characters are real.

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

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, dies Sunday, July 16, 2017.

The main attraction is a fantastic 2.40:1, 1080p transfer that reproduces seemingly every subtle nuance of colour and shading in the filmed image, from the pale, near - monochromatic look of the early scenes in zombie territory to the increasingly saturated and naturalistic palette as humans and zombies begin to have a positive effect on each other.

Over recent years, Pfeifer has traveled to the southernmost tip of South America to document the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego, to the streets of Brooklyn to create a music video with the Flatbush ZOMBiES, to the urban chaos of São Paulo to film crystal healers and other religious leaders, and to his native East Germany, where he interviewed members of the far - right PEGIDA movement.

For example, his collaborative film project, Feature (2008), which relocated the action of a traditional western to the English countryside, slipping into other sub-genres such as the zombie - flick, and Wagnerian opera, as well as South Asian god - flick.