Sentences with phrase «zombie action film»

Planet Terror is Robert Rodriguez's idea of a fantasy drive - in movie: a scruffy, over-the-top zombie action film starring Rose McGowan as a go - go dancer with a machine gun leg.

You quickly get the sense that Williams is trying to do more of a zombie action film, rather than a straight - up loveletter to the videogames.

Not exact matches

More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have an Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the film lacks strong meat — of the emotional and bloody zombie - cannibal sort.

This film seems to be following the latest games more closely where the zombies have been replaced by monsters and allot more action is thrown in.

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

In these films, the world has usually turned against humanity in some way — a zombie apocalypse, an alien invasion, or simply the indomitability of nature itself — and the relative resourcefulness of characters who were previously reliant on now - absent tools or technologies provide the major dramatic beats as outside forces close in, driving these characters into action.

The series was well out front of the zombie craze that preceded The Walking Dead and WWZ, and it became one of the rare action film franchises anchored by an actress.

Ryuhei Kitamura — director of the action - packed Japanese zombie film Versus, as well as Alive, Godzilla: Final Wars, Lionsgate's Clive Barker adaptation of The Midnight Meat Train, and WWE's slasher No...

The Cannes Film Festival has proven a fertile space for the release of the best the country has on offer to Western markets, and following the success of Yeon - Sang - ho's extraordinary zombie film Train to Busan in 2016, Cannes» Midnight Screenings this year featured Jung Byung - gil's high - octane female - centred action movie The Villainess.

It gives the idea of consumerism run wild the short shrift that it deserves (and the cynicism that an intervening quarter - century demands), touching on the original's explanation of the zombies» affinity for the shopping mall and the human heroes» delight at their newfound material wealth before becoming a bracing action film that, like Marcus Nispel's reworking of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the source of which didn't need updating as much as Dawn arguably did), is more firmly entrenched in the James Cameron Aliens tradition than the Seventies institution of disconcerting personal horror film.

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.»

«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.

Shaun Of The Dead was a REAL zombie film AND the funniest film I had ever seen (until Hot Fuzz), Hot Fuzz totally changed the way I look at story arc, the way it escalated and escalated and then jumped into intense action was fantastic!

Two of the most frightening zombie films come together in one action - packed collection: the Dawn of the Dead & George A. Romero's Land of the Dead 2 - Movie Collection!

Cargo isn't the kind of film that you think demands a spinoff or its own cinematic universe but... come on, once you see those flashes of action, you may spend the next few moments with Andy wondering why we're following this dude when there are — I repeat — Indigenous zombie hunters in this movie!

If only he could deliver when the film needs that shot of adrenaline for the action scenes as he fails to connect us to the immediacy of the moment as characters get overrun by avalanches of poorly - animated CGI zombie hordes while keeping the focus on Gerry, the one character we're all but assured is safe.

As the biggest budget zombie film in history, WORLD WAR Z showcases some truly breathtaking action sequences involving a Philadelphia outbreak, a zombie wall pile - up and a mid-flight airliner with a few unexpected passengers.

Milla Jovovich has carried the RESIDENT EVIL franchise as Alice for five films now and they have all displayed some of the best zombie - killing action to ever grace the big screen.

On another more amusing note, ZOMBIELAND is also perhaps the first supernatural action film that actually makes a zombie apocalypse look fun and enjoyable.

This is perhaps the first zombie film that portrayed realistic and relateable characters to the audience, therefore making the action sequences all the more intense because you actually care about them and fear for their safety.

The film's spectacular finale set in the fictional theme park Pacific Playland is one of the most thrilling action sequences involving zombies that I have seen in a long time when the film was released in 2009.

It will be hard for a quality film to emerge from the endless rewrites and extensive reshoots (not to mention crazy run - ins with the law), but when Brad Pitt stars is in a zombie action movie, you have our attention.

Director Edgar Wright has previously delivered is parody of Zombies (Shaun of the Dead), his parody of buddy - cop - action films (Hot Fuzz), and now takes on Sci - Fi in this latest... a worthy conclusion with the trademark quick cuts and rapid fire witty / silly dialogue.

Initially screening at a number of art house theaters across the U.S., the first live action film from director Yeon Sang - ho drew in scores of watchers, infecting both critics and zombie enthusiasts.

In fact, despite the addition of «zombies» to the title, the film works better as an adaptation of «Pride and Prejudice» than the action comedy it strives to be.

The long - running, live - action Resident Evil film franchise came to an end with The Final Chapter in 2016, but much like a zombie, this series just won't stay dead.

: «Looking for B - plots and C - spots, scanning backgrounds of film scenes and surface of celluloid, dust of beats, flip sides of everything including dust (dust of vinyl records including;) looking for unclassified acts of emergence, obscure transmissions, extinct specimen and specimen with no species, operational codes of irreproducible zombies, impossibility of action, attraction; extracting the DNR of inextractable and unleashing it on new demand of irreproducible, full stop moon.»

For example, his collaborative film project, Feature (2008), which relocated the action of a traditional western to the English countryside, slipping into other sub-genres such as the zombie - flick, and Wagnerian opera, as well as South Asian god - flick.