Sentences with phrase «with the zombie genre»

It's hard to do something new with the zombie genre.

The writer / director talked about first - time director challenges, trying to do something new with the zombie genre, creating new rules for the undead, putting together his cast, his specific visual approach, nabbing the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club to do the score, and much more.

Before Anna And The Apoclaypse, I considered myself very much done with the zombie genre.

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.

While I'm pretty jaded with the zombie genre, New Kids Nitro does manage to make it fun again.

There is an over familiarity with the zombie genre now.

Not exact matches

Join me as I take a journey through the zombie genre with reviews and commentary on films and television that embrace the apocalyptic walking dead.

As Danny Boyle's go - to screenwriter after they brought his first novel, The Beach to the big screen, they injected a shot of adrenaline to the shambling zombie genre in 2000s with 28 Days Later, and turned in a brilliantly sly theological inquiry in the form of a space adventure Sunshine.

Death Road to Canada attempts to offset the normally dark themes of the zombie genre with zany characters, a charming pixel art style, and poppy music, but the lack of depth to its combat and randomly generated content will quickly leave you feeling frustrated and unsatisfied.

While Dead Island: Riptide serves the zombie genre well, it doesn't do anything new with it.

After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in the zombie comedy Life After Beth.

Both films are post-apocalyptic sci - fi thrillers where the the population of Earth is threatened into nonexistence in a short amount of time, while the survivors do what they can in order to keep from suffering the same fate at the hands of those who have gone rabidly insane — the zombies here aren't the slow, lumbering ones we generally associate with the genre either.

by Walter Chaw Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost return after the triumph of Shaun of the Dead with the nominal success of Hot Fuzz: the one a dead - on skewering of / homage to the zombie genre, the latter an equally - dead - on skewering of / homage to the buddy - cop genre that leads one to conclude that the zombie genre is infinitely more fulsome a target than the buddy - cop genre.

While I can certainly agree with both films not falling squarely in line with the zombies, slashers, and extreme gore features that proudly wave their horror flags, Get Out and The Shape of Water do exist in the peripherals of genre, both featuring monsters of very different ilk.

The 2009 comedy was a big hit with both audiences and critics, putting a smart spin on the zombie genre with an excellent ensemble and one of the best - used...

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.

The makers of Zombieland would rather tell a straightforward story infused with humor and homage for those who truly appreciate the zombie - horror genre rather than go for broad appeal snarkiness.

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.

I desperately wanted this game to be stellar, being a huge fan of the zombie genre especially with survival mechanics thrown in the mix.

Despite my well belief that the «Walking Dead» has ruined the zombie genre, «Train to Busan» and «The Girl with All the Gifts» is evidence to the contrary.

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.

It's also hard to call this a zombie film because the monsters in this movie aren't really zombies, but Doyle truly reinvents the horror genre with this intellectually political and intensely horrifying film.

In between the mindnumbing blandness of countless Living Dead knockoffs, my ongoing inability to understand the inexplicable popularity of The Walking Dead, and a pronounced boredom with this genre's tropes, I had more or less decided not to bother with zombie movies (or TV shows!)

I agree with everyone as I was pleasantly surprised by World War Z. I thought the Hoard Zombies were an interesting take on the zombie genre.

«The Girl with All the Gifts» is based on a book of the same, where the writer most likely stole a few pages out of «The Walking Dead» playbook, incorporating emotion, character study, and morality into the zombie genre.

Your enthusiasm for the zombie genre will decide whether or not you can put up with this disconnect but it was an immersion breaker for me.

Despite some of the clear and possible influences, «The Girl with All the Gifts» avoids a lot of cliché pitfalls and is a solid addition to the zombie genre that's been struggling to find anything fresh lately

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.

and, only this week, signing on to her studio debut with Sony «s genre flick «The Kitchen Sink,» about a vampire, a werewolf and a zombie who team up to fight off aliens.

Together with director Edgar Wright, actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost created two of the funniest and most loving tributes to genre films in recent memory: The zombie spoof «Shaun of the Dead» and the action movie «Hot Fuzz.»

In a move destined to delight genre fans, Deadline reports that popular Game of Thrones actors Charles Dance and Lena Headey will mix it up with the undead — no, not wights — in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

«Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» has unleashed a new U.K. trailer that deftly blends the themes of Jane Austen's classic with the tropes of the horror and action genres, while laying out the film's premise.

Still, and despite the failure of Land of the Dead, there's Night of, Day of, and Diary of to confirm that Romero's zombie flicks are worthy genre pieces alight with insight into social issues.

46) «Resident Evil: The Final Chapter» Smart Rating: 40.62 Release date: Friday, January 27, 2017 Genre: Horror, action Starring: Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter Description: The T - virus unleashed by the evil Umbrella Corporation has spread to every corner of the globe, infesting the planet with zombies, demons and monsters.

With that come some not - too - subtle nods to the history of the zombie genre, lest you forget that the the shambling brain - munchers started out as a critique of mindless American consumerism.

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...

In 1968, George A. Romero not only invented the modern zombie genre, but revolutionized horror with this incredible film that merges social commentary and scares.

Baena's undead take on falling in love creates a charming wrinkle in the zombie genre as it shines a light on a couple with a second chance at love.

Whereas «Shaun» was a satirical send - up up zombie horror and «Fuzz» had fun with mismatched buddy - cop conventions, «The World's End» dares to take on a genre that's even larger and more complex, at least from a technical perspective: the sci - fi apocalypse extravaganza.

That alone is enough for many to rush out and rent this gorehound import, but there's more: this is terrific, a dryly hilarious horror comedy with a macabre sense of splatter humor a la Evil Dead 2 (complete with zombie hunters armed with chainsaws and other deep woods implements of destruction) but minus the self - conscious wisecracking of the genre.

«That was around the time that The Walking Dead was in its zenith, and we were just really interested in dabbling in the zombie genre and seeing if there was something a little bit fresh that we could bring to that,» Ramke said, sitting down at Deadline's Tribeca Studio with Howling, producer Kristina Ceyton and star Martin Freeman.

With Shaun of the Dead, they completely flipped - upside down onto its own decaying head the zombie / horror genre itself, making one of the most comical and enjoyable spoofs in recent memory.

The Girl with All the Gifts (Colm McCarthy, 2016) This film is an interesting reimagining of the zombie genre where the «living dead» are ultimately redeemed through education.

After all the critical acclaim heaved upon Danny Boyle and Alex Garland for helping to redefine the zombie flick with «28 Days Later...,» I was definitely excited to see if something similar could be done with science fiction genre.

In a scene that looked to be straight out of a horror movie with a much larger budget, viewers were treated to an abundance of gore, creative zombie killings and gruesome deaths (both zombie and human) that pleased even the most veteran genre fans.

Comparisons to Metal Slug and Contra are pretty much inevitable, but mixing it up with the mobster and zombie genres really makes for a great, unique experience.

And while the premise of Warm Bodies - that a young zombie falls in love with a living girl and learns to be human again - sounds more than a little twee, the trailer delivers an offbeat, earnest charm that shakes off the ancient shackles of this cashed out genre.

Robert Kirkman resurrected the zombie genre with his cult comic series, The Walking Dead.

In its way, films like Fellini's Nights of Cabiria and La dolce vita — in which romantic love is inextricably intertwined with irony and death — predict the Italian embrace of the zombie genre.

Taylor, who made the Crank films and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance with Mark Neveldine, playfully references several genres — cheesy family comedies, US high school dramas, zombie movies and the Home Alone franchise.