Sentences with phrase «than zombie movies»

I'll give that vampire movies can go more places than zombie movies.

The effect is less video - game - turned - movie than zombie movie minus zombies: stilted, static, s - l - o - o - o - w.

Yet the effect is less video - game - turned - movie than zombie movie minus zombies: stilted, static, s - l - o - o - o - w.

The ape apocalypse is no different than any zombie movie with the same pretense.

The Last of Us is hardly worth the praise that it got either because the story which is apparently «revolutionary» in gameplay narrative is in actuality nothing more than a zombie movie with barely any gameplay.

Not exact matches

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

The Daily News dismisses the «spooky stories» constitutional convention opponents are using in their campaign to block a «yes» vote, saying their arguments are «no more believable than a bad zombie movie.»

More than one movie zombie has been known to drool.

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

In fact, the zombies here are a lot different than your typical garden variety that we're used to seeing in George A. Romero movies and «The Walking Dead.»

Based loosely on the book by Max Brooks, «World War Z» is in some ways less a zombie movie than the story of a global pandemic and the heroic individual (guess who) trying to stop it.

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.

Laura is more a symbol of the collateral damage of Mexico's billion - dollar drug war than a character, and she kind of becomes a numb zombie by the movie's latter half, perhaps accepting her doomed fate.

This show takes itself a lot less seriously than TWD, and is a lot more reminiscent of older zombie movies.

Lots of cheesiness too, but no worse than a lot of the zombie movies that have come out over the past few years.

Upright and less wolf - like than those experienced during the Games, these new zombie - like movie monsters undermine the reality the series has spent years carefully building.

Just because they do them well, though, doesn't make the movie less reliant on shock value than any other zombie flicks.

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

With the zombie genre, I imagine you get the diehard fans that get really upset when a zombie movie is less than what they have in their mind.

More zombie movies, games, and TV shows come out every year and there's even a growing zomromcom genre which is bigger than you think.

Sending up movies as varied as «The Exorcist,» «Rosemary's Baby,» «Alien,» and anything relating to zombies and apocalyptic mayhem, «This is the End» provides the ensemble — all principal parts are taken by men — with more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Starring Brad Pitt and directed by Marc Forster (Finding Neverland, Stranger Than Fiction, Quantum of Solace), this World War Z movie follows U.N. special agent Gerry Lane as he travels a devastated world infected by «zombies.»

Vivid proof that filmmaking is more about creativity than money, this micro-budget British movie takes an inventive approach to the ubiquitous zombie genre.

Director Steven Spielberg and director J.J. Abram's nostalgic, monster - mash homage to their own movie - obsessed childhoods, «Super 8» tells the story of a gaggle of»70s kids who accidentally capture something much more unnerving — and deadly — on their Super 8 film than the homegrown zombie movie they've set out to shoot.

If you're more of a zombie person than vampires and werewolves, you're in luck this blog only reviews zombie movies and tv shows.

Although it works better as a romantic comedy than as a horror movie, this film is cute and breezy with a likable cast that might help zombie fans overlook the glaring lack of gore.

There are plenty of cheesy TV movies that have cornered that market, and more than a handful of films that feature a meteor shower as the catalyst for disaster: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984) brings about zombies, THE BLOB (1958, with the remake out in 1988) hitches a ride on a meteorite, THE MONOLITH MONSTERS (1957) delivers killer crystals, and a rogue comet in Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (1986) prompts machines to come alive and attack us.

28 Days Later is also much more than a conventional zombie movie.

Clearly word got out before it even hit theaters, as he's got a number of very promising projects in the works for early 2013 — he'll play the boyfriend of lead Teresa Palmer in Jonathan Levine «s zombie romance «Warm Bodies ``; he's just one in an excellent ensemble cast, including Jesse Eisenberg, Melanie Laurent, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Isla Fisher, Michael Caine, Common and Woody Harrelson in Louis Letterier «s magician heist movie «Now You See Me ``; and he's playing none another than Romeo in Fox «s Shakesperean re-do «Rosaline.»

There are better remakes and certainly better zombie movies than this one out there.

Any zombie flick clearly owes its existence to George Romero, but this movie with updated effects and a more modern feel is even more fun to watch than Romero's efforts, as those films show their age a bit too often.

Paramount is lining up a new thriller, and they want the writer behind the movie that made you realize zombies are way scarier than you had previously imagined.

Undead or Alive, a movie about zombies in the Old West, was barely getting more than a raised eyebrow from me.

Inside jokes permeate the bulk of the scenes, and savvy film buffs will love this movie on a level even higher than the casual viewer, especially those who've seen the classic zombie flicks like Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (of course!)

«It's one of the few times in history that technology has reinvigorated an art form rather than crushing it,» said Max Brooks, author of the zombie novel «World War Z,» which was released in May ahead of the Brad Pitt movie in an elaborate new audio edition with 40 cast members, including Alan Alda, John Turturro, and Martin Scorsese.