Sentences with phrase «zombie films do»

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.

Not exact matches

Characters in zombie films are willing to do terrible things to each other because of the fear of zombies and the urge for self preservation, while, in the real world, things like the use of torture (or «advanced interrogation»), preemptive war and drone strikes were being debated as options to fight a threat even scarier than zombies: terrorism.

I've seen many zombie moves in my time, «Dawn of the Dead» and «Evil Dead» to name a couple, and all the zombies in those films want to do is eat you!

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.

Something that turns out to be zombies (the film doesn't pussy - foot around the word, gratifyingly), which are soon busy tearing civilization apart.

It's not that it revitalizes a dead genre, but it does give a bit of new life and twist to the zombie genre, while also paying tribute to the classic cult films like Dawn of the Dead, Evil Dead, Mad Max, among others.

We don't really know, since the film doesn't bother explaining its own logic, instead just standing on the shoulders of its predecessors as if to say, «It's a zombie film, you get it,» which unfortunately amounts to lazy storytelling.

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.

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 doesn't seem to work towards any particular climax, and again like a zombie, this movie's pulse is very very weak.

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

Les Affamés definitely isn't the gore fest the Romero - type zombie movies usually are, but there are still plenty of jump scares throughout the film, although, to be fair, they mostly do these well, thanks to a sparse use of background music and some well - paced scenes.

I don't really get the point of the comic zombie film.

From the giant screaming spider - scorpion hybrids the «Gladers» call «Grievers,» to the virus - infected zombies they call «Cranks,» to a return of a shady, long - thought - dead character from their past (who could've been an entirely new character and it wouldn't have mattered), to Thomas» middle - finger salute to Janson, the callbacks to the previous two films don't do much but add padding to the narrative.

Aubrey Plaza doesn't look like her usual cool and collected self in the first images from the zombie film Life After Beth.

The fear in 1990 as reflected by the film is more along the lines of a surety that we were all going to kill ourselves, though its themes are so inconsistent and muddled, even down to the lore (do the zombies feel pain?

No one can deny that the zombie film — in all its guises, has been done to the absolute death (sorry).

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.

(The highlight of the track may be when Christina Aguilera vindicated Snyder at the premiere of the film by saying that she would have done the same thing as Nicole and chased after her dog through a field of zombies on a monster truck.)

Zombieland (2009) A movie set in a post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland doesn't seem like a wine - and - chocolate film, but Zombieland is truly a horror film with heart.

So here are some opinions of films to watch tonight in between writing erotic zombie friend fanfic (am I the only one doing that?)

But for the first time in a long time, not only does Schwarzenegger star in a film worthy of his name, but one that's way out of his comfort zone, lending considerable emotional depth to the deadly serious zombie drama, «Maggie.»

Vengeance of the Zombies certainly has the feel of two separate films that don't really mesh that well together.

The «Evil Dead» series at times had more in common with the Three Stooges and Warner Bros. cartoons than it did with other zombie films like «Night of the Living Dead» and «Dawn of the Dead.»

World War Z wants to be a little bit of everything — a tense, edge - of - your - seat thriller, a star - powered summer blockbuster and chaotic zombie epic, but ultimately like the film's antagonists, I didn't leave out feel very satisfied at all.

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

The idea of a new indie zombie drama, then, isn't necessarily one to make you froth at the mouth — even when it's based on a hit 2013 short film, the intervening five years have seen the genre done to undeath.

While the film does have blood and scares, The Cured is ultimately much more smarter than the average zombie film.

The script, which is largely free of dialogue, doesn't shy away from the crushingly mundane cycle of survival during a zombie plague: the film's 105 - minute runtime largely consists of moments that are repetitive, as Andy's optimism is reignited and snuffed out over and over.

In 1996 horror made a comeback, the kind of unlikely rise from the dead Michael Myers does at the end of every Halloween film (all great horror villains are zombies of a kind).

Being more familiar with spaceship films than zombie ones, Sunshine did more for me than Days.

Although it's unclear whether the creatures stalking Will Smith's lonely Robert Neville are vampires or zombies, it doesn't matter because his fantastic performance eclipses the (admittedly impressive) visual effects of the film.

Critics did warm to his more dramatic turn in the indie zombie flick «Maggie,» but the film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring, was seen only in limited release.

We've done three films in three different genres — the zombie film, the cop film and the sci - fi film — but they're really all Trojan horses for relationship comedies.»

And, yes, the actual ineffectiveness of a crossbow in a zombie apocalypse is (overly) called out though this little exchange did make for the best moment in the film.

So far, so funny; but before long it becomes awkwardly apparent that this is a film rooted in the single gag LOL zombies a novelty that, while sharply done, needs more narrative brawn to sustain it.

While this is an IFC release, this is not smart film making in the least, but it can be described as an innovative and peculiar way to represent the zombie genre, with loads of laughs and I - can't - believe - they - just - did - that moments.

Like most zombie films / games, at no point do any of the characters acknowledge the fact that they...

Ito: I'm not a horror movie fan very much, but I do love zombie films.

I watched Pegg / Frost films, enjoyed a little zombie gaming on my PS3 and didn't even lift a finger to do anything like housework or organising.

Of course, there's one horror genre where the good guys don't win: zombie films.

Say if near the end of the film, parents are arguing, Jake is menaced by zombie and injures himself which causes he and his parents to focus on the real cause of his distress... Maybe, I du n no.