Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their film takes the elaborately
overdone zombie genre and resuscitates it, while also taking and revamping a handful of well - established genre tropes ---- apocalypse premise, creepy kids, mad scientists ---- and tweaks them in eccentric and imaginative new ways.
Not exact matches
For a
genre that is often described as
overdone, I give kudos to Housemarque for adding their unique take to the
zombie genre.
Dead Rising has gone from being a zany and fun take on the
zombie genre — one of the few I could actually stand, given how
overdone the whole thing is — to looking like everything else.