Sentences with phrase «tired zombie genre»

The interesting setting helps too, adding a war - movie twist to the tired zombie genre.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Why it's worth a watch: Based on a 2013 short film by directors Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling that went viral, this is pure genre fun for fans of the zombie ouevre who've grown tired of it being so darn predictable.

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.

Stephen King once wrote a great but greatly under - read and under - appreciated novel called Cell about people's bodies being hijacked by a cellular signal, and it was as if he was tired of stupid zombie stories, that he almost flippantly wanted to show us that he could do it so much better, that the genre itself wasn't stupid as much as the people producing the media weren't very smart.

An Irish zombie movie written during the recession and filmed on the streets of Dublin's north inner city has been garnering rave reviews from Toronto to ADIFF thanks to the novel premise it brings to an arguably tired genre.

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