A critic once remarked of George Romero's seminal 1968
zombie flick Night of the Living Dead that it is a science fiction movie pretending to be a horror movie.
George Cameron Romero, the son of the late George A. Romero, is preparing to bring us a prequel to his fathers classic 1968
zombie flick Night of the Living Dead, which is titled Rise of the Living Dead.
George Cameron Romero, the son of the late George A. Romero, is preparing to bring us a prequel to his fathers classic 1968
zombie flick Night...
Not exact matches
Since then, the
zombie movie has been a staple at the cinema and at home, with offerings ranging from the totally»80s classic
Night of the Comet to the biggest box office
zombie flick yet, World War Z. Because there are only so many ways to serve up brains, and with TV's The Walking Dead doing an excellent job of that on a regular basis, filmmakers are taking unique approaches to
zombies and treating them as characters, not just mindless threats.
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.
Playing up the humor in an effort to differentiate this from George Romero's
zombie flicks, O'Bannon and his fellow scribes (including John Russo, who also co-wrote Romero's original
Night of the Living Dead) have Frank (James Karen) and Freddy (Thom Matthews), two employees at the Uneeda medical supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, accidentally release not only a
zombie from a misplaced military canister but also the attendant gas that soon turns the corpses at nearby Resurrection Cemetery into the walking dead.
Fresh: 30 Days of
Night manages to do for the vampire genre what 28 Days Later did for the
zombie flick: give age - old monsters a modern - day makeover.
Inside jokes permeate the bulk of the scenes, and savvy film buffs will love this movie on a level even higher than the casual viewer, especially those who've seen the classic
zombie flicks like
Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (of course!)
Directed by John Suits (The Scribbler), Pandemic is a cliche - ridden horror
flick that borrows the bulk of its ideas from the
zombie genre inaugurated by
Night of the Living Dead in 1968.