Sentences with phrase «with zombie film»

Much as with his zombie film, the outlandish story here greatly benefits from Boyle's grounding treatment.

I don't do well with the nihilism and anxiety and gore that I (possibly wrongly) associate with zombie films.

As was true with zombie films and «Shaun of the Dead,» «Hot Fuzz» isn't so much a satire of the buddy cop genre as it is a fanatical love letter.

Not exact matches

We spoke with Nick on the day his first feature film, the seriously twisted zombie apocalypse comedy Range 15, hit theaters (and hit them hard.)

In some of my upcoming fan films I might play little bit with some zombies.

Aside from budget issues, nothing's stopping them from making a zombie movie with a surprise dance number among the corpses, or a superhero film where the villain's master plan is to turn everyone into squirrels or something.

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.

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.

Fans may not like the CGI zombies, but unlike the video game creatures in I am Legend (2007), these are more filmed actor - CGI tweaked hybrids; their believability is really dependent on how much viewers will accept the virus as a fast - moving bug which immediately transforms a host into a rabid sprinter with super-strength (not unlike 28 Days Later).

In fact, enough for an entire second Blu - ray disc: On disc one, there's a commentary track with star Ian McCulloch and zombie film expert Jay Slater, as well as trailers, TV and radio spots, and a poster and still gallery.

The direction by Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace, Stranger Than Fiction) delivers a fast - paced zombie thriller, and with Brad Pitt front and center, there is a grounding of the film in seeming more intelligent and plausible than your typical scare flick.

More detailed gore and suffering were likely shorn to ensure an already budget - bloated production had the best possible chances of recouping its cost with the broadest possible audience, but a zombie film does need gore, and the restored material could've been a little bit nastier.

The movie is about a group of friends, apparently brothers and sisters as well, who are filming a horror movie about a zombie with jaundice or something like that.

Again many questions are raised but the tale is the most interesting and could easily be expanded, its basically your common zombie apocalypse type flick that obviously has lots of similarities with the 1960 film «Village of the Damned».

The usual zombie carnage and violence is present, but with a couple of interesting new twists that keep the film fresh.

Hank takes a gig rewriting dialogue on a zombie sequel but threatens his job when he hooks up with a sexy woman with close ties to the film's female lead; Marcy tells Stu she's pregnant but not that the baby may be Charlie's.

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.

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.

Medina, a Bronx - born comedian who plays the film's aggressively stereotyped Mexican character, counters with a précis on the problem with Lee's self - described «existential parody»: «People that like titties and zombies pretty much don't give a fuck about commentary.»

The film is holding its NYC premiere today and I caught up with Doug this past weekend at New York Comic Con to discuss his ongoing collaboration with Del Toro and, seeing as it's the Halloween season, the enduring appeal of the Disney classic Hocus Pocus in which Jones was the benevolent zombie, Billy Butcherson.

I would suggest avoiding this one at all costs — there are many better zombie films to spend your time with.

The once - terrifying creatures have now become as stale a horror sub-genre as zombies, with numerous films and television shows being churned out one after another, meaning it takes something truly phenomenal like The Walking Dead to emerge from the growing puddle of tedium.

Director Colm McCarthy's The Girl With All the Gifts is one of the best zombie films ever made, and this Blu - ray release from Lionsgate is a solid treatment for this relatively low - budget marvel.

Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.

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.

In fact, it's not ever the worst zombie film with Day of the Dead in the title that I've ever seen.

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

The film itself moves with a zombie - like gait, lurching forward and coming to dead halts before lumbering on.

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.

The plot may be at times lacking, but with a film like this, the zombies are all that matters and Michel Soavi direction gives viewers plenty to enjoy despite its flaws.

A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).

Tarantino's film, «Death Proof,» is a rip - roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguez's film «Planet Terror» shows us a view of the world in the midst of a zombie outbreak Read the rest of this entry»

Billed as «a romantic comedy with zombies,» the film is exactly that.

There's been a lot of zombie films in recent years, so it's with some trepidation that I sit down to watch another one.

There's been a lot of zombie films in recent years, so it's with some trepidation Continue reading Shaun of the Dead →

This is a film with so much potential, but instead of fully committing to the moments where it seems to be challenging the representation of women in many indi films, it opts for a montage of Calvin and Ruby seeing zombie movies, going to a fun fair and then going to a dance party where she tells him she's taken her underwear off.

While zombie movies can be traced back to the 1930s, the modern zombie film era is generally accepted to have begun with George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead

People's newfound obsession with zombies, combined with the even larger following the first Zombieland film has gained since its release, could end up resulting in the success of Zombieland 2.

We can also include this short film, titled Dawn of the Deaf, about a few deaf people who must band together to survive in a zombie apocalypse - though it's much more about the relationship the main girl has with everyone in her life.

The zombie tale, a hybrid of Scooby - Doo, Night Of The Living Dead, and an always intriguing youth - confronting - scary - monsters premise, seems in line with people's interests and in an animated setting, perhaps a zombie film can survive the over-saturation of zombie - pop that has been prevalent these last few years.

Since the film's release, zombies have become infinitely more popular with films like World War Z and Warm Bodies, and the wildly successful TV series The Walking Dead.

«Set to be released in both English and Norwegian, the new film follows the sole survivor of a Nazi zombie attack who battles an even larger army of Zombies with the help of the Zombie Squad, a professional gang of zombie killers from the US.»

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.

His first real brush with international acclaim came with «Dead Alive» in 1992 (also known as «Braindead»), which was a gory zombie flick that included some of the most gruesome, outlandish and hilarious effects seen on film since Sam Raimi's «Evil Dead 2.»

The first Troma film in years to get a theatrical run is an aggressively absurd, outrageously gory and comically grotesque horror farce: part Poltergeist, part Alien, part Dead Alive, all zombie chicken musical, with more excruciating puns that you thought was humanly possible.

Fans of The Rock (Be Cool, The Rundown)-- If you love The Rock but aren't really familiar with the game, or you usually eschew zombie films, chances are that you will come away with some very strong mixed feelings about Doom.

DISC 2 ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST • Featurette: Voodoo Man: Interview With Star Ian McCulloch • Featurette: Blood Of The Zombies: Interview With FX Master Rosario Prestopino • Featurette: Filmmaker Enzo Castellari Remembers His Father Director Marino Girolami • Featurette: Sherry Holocaust: Interview With Actress Sherryl Buchanan • Featurette: Neurosurgery Italian Style — Interview With FX Artist Maurizio Trani • Featurette: New York Filming Locations Then Vs. Now.

In a real sense, it's a film about perceptual reality, and as the plague inevitably breaks out again in an American - run, Ellis Island-esque NATO outpost, Fresnadillo's escalation of the events from an observation room to a subway tunnel to an open air carnival (with a brief stop in - between for an American helicopter to one - up Robert Rodriguez amidst a horde of zombies) demonstrates a firm handle on how to intersperse God's - eye perspective with impossible - to - assimilate ground - level chaos.

We spoke with Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick all about the long journey this zombie epic made from television to film.