Sentences with phrase «zombie films like»

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.»

Attacks come fast and furious now, setting a frenzied pace that later zombie films like Evil Dead II and Dead Alive will utilize to infinitely more comic effect.

Not exact matches

He called «The Walking Dead» a «soap opera» and said big - budget films like «World War Z» made modest zombie films impossible.

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.

The film's sequels had survivors holing up in places like shopping malls, through which zombies would wander aimlessly all day, as if retracing the steps of their former lives as consumers.

Like the hilarious but unironically fashioned book The Zombie Survival Guide (2003), here's a zombie tale for the 9/11 era, when fantasies of urban chaos and duct - tape - sealed apartment windows are no longer relegated to horror films; these paranoid scenarios became regular fare on CNN.

I'm 21 years old, I live in New York City, I like to make short films and I'm a fan of zombies.

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).

«World War Z» isn't your typical zombie movie, but rather a globe - trotting socio - political thriller that treats the zombies more like a viral disease than something out of a horror film.

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.

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.

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.»

Mike Carey's novel and screenplay takes ideas from superhero films like «X-Men» and expects the audience to already know quite a bit of zombie history from other films.

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

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.

Evidently the victims - turned - zombies in this film hew closer to a sci - fi - like transformation rather than supernatural resurrection.

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.

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.

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.

In his eloquent fulmination on «the De Palma Conundrum,» The New Yorker's Richard Brody says, «De Palma's peculiar fealty to the history of cinema — his overt dependence upon the films of Alfred Hitchcock and his plethora of references to other classic filmmakers... results in zombie - like movies.»

The zombie genre will (un) live on beyond Life After Beth, a film that feels like a Halloween entry of a Saturday Night Live routine that may have been funny in a short sketch, but can't survive being stretched out over 90 minutes.

Infected by the film's zombie - like virus, «the rapist» attempts to rape Cherry in his final moments on screen, but his dick gruesomely melts off and hits the floor.

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.

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

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 zombie baddies that are labeled «crazies» by the military are the result of biological warfare, and we've seen this in films like 28 Days Later.

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.

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This dramatic and introspective Canadian movie about a Civil War vet making his way through a zombie apocalypse plays like a 19th century feature film version of The Walking Dead.

REVIEW: CARGO is another one of those zombie films, like 28 DAYS LATER, where the «Z - word» is never mentioned.

The fan of the «Shaun of the Dead» film felt like a zombie during those moments, which led him to produce a script for upcoming comedy film «Zombiepura», set to begin filming in January 2018.

You have Infected, which are high speed adrenaline fueled zombies much like the ones from the «28 Days Later» films, and you have Screamers, who incapacitate your character with ear piercing shrieks.

Even though the film was a complete mess, I quite liked World War Z, Paramount Pictures» zombie film starring Brad Pitt...

2015 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL: Zombies have been all the craze for quite sometime with shows like «The Walking Dead» and films like «World War Z» dominating the box office.

She gets in nice a close to wade's face, and sniffs (we're told earlier in the film regular people smell like meat to Zombies).

It is not even really a film it is more of a product, something to get zombies like yourself to buy their toys.

The zombie - like victims of the virus are not the mindless shuffling idiots of Romero's films, but strong, fast and capable.

Centering around an Indian mystic, Krisna, (Naschy) and his devoted follower Elvire (Romy) who begins to fall in love with him, the film plays out like a police mystery thriller with voodoo zombies going on a killing spree.

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.

This new film is a sort - of sequel to «Shaun of the Dead,» both for the characters, who are taking refuge in a pub from hordes of zombie - like people, and for the filmmakers, representing a homecoming for the director after «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World» and for stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost after «Paul.»

Often when it seems like there's nowhere for zombie movies to go, a little out - of - left - field film comes along to prove you wrong, squeezing a smidgen more life out of the genre's exhausted conventions.

-- Bob Turnbull [LIKED] Like many zombie films, The Cured is a film that can be viewed as a social allegory about fear of «the other.»

That film is way more out there than «Life After Beth,» but at least it has clear direction and jokes that work, instead of just wandering around like a mindless zombie hoping to skate by on its clever title.

Perhaps the existence of Warm Bodies deflates the importance of a film like Life After Beth, both romantic comedies which explore the relationship difficulties that emerge when one of the members of the happy couple is a zombie.

That film is way more out there than this one, but at least it has clear direction and jokes that work, instead of just wandering around like a mindless zombie hoping to skate by on its clever title.

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.

As he commented, «if you've ever had anonymous sex in a park or even in a bathhouse, basically it is like having sex with a zombie, and not necessarily in a bad way... having sex with them frees you from the personal and emotional restraints of normal sexual behaviour».65 American scholar Shaka McGlotten echoes this sentiment when he suggests that the «collective zombification» of «contemporary queer sociality» as represented in LaBruce's zombie films, possesses a creativity and «openness» from which «enlivening modes of agency» can be at the very «least» imagined if not cultivated.66 In symbolising the «return of the repressed» LaBruce's zombies evoke the idealised polymorphous body of sexual liberation.

While thematically LaBruce's films are all variations on the theme of queer punk negation and radical sex critique, his foray into the world of zombie - porn in the 2000s represents a stylistic shift from the frequently didactic, manifesto - like approach of his earlier films, to the metaphorical and allegorical style that typifies the zombie genre.

Under the zombie story, the film is merely a genre approach to exploring the idea of relationships, and what it's like when they crumble.