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Baena's undead take on falling in love creates a charming wrinkle in the zombie genre as it shines a light on a couple with a second chance at love.

Not exact matches

Zombies, for one thing, fit into the horror genre in which monstrous creatures — like dangerous predators in our ancestral environment — trigger physiological fight - or - flight reactions such as an increase in heart rate and blood pressure and the release of such stress hormones as cortisol and adrenaline that help us prepare for danger.

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.

As Danny Boyle's go - to screenwriter after they brought his first novel, The Beach to the big screen, they injected a shot of adrenaline to the shambling zombie genre in 2000s with 28 Days Later, and turned in a brilliantly sly theological inquiry in the form of a space adventure Sunshine.

REC 4 won't win any points for being scary or terribly original, as this is more of an action thriller than horror, but it is mostly successful due to the fact that it drops the slapstick comedy of REC 3 and goes for a more serious tone, and the setting make this stand out in the zombie genre.

The zombie genre is here to stay — as evident by the hordes of films and TV shows coming off the success of AMC's hits series The Walking Dead.

The gore is plentiful and sometimes inventive (I love the use of a zombie - familiar as traction to one of the eternally - bogged cars in movies like this), and the addition of geek avengers leads to Scream commentary like, «A whole new genre, man.»

It also briefly raises the intriguing issue of how you can reboot a civilization to prevent the mistakes of the past, but spends most of its time on chases, explosions, zombies, evil scientists, and, as in all movies of this genre, the idea that hot teens are all that can save us.

Our time with ZombieSmash has laid to rest our doubts that the genre had wrung out all it could, as ZombieSmash not only looks gorgeous, in a cute Plants vs Zombies kind of way, but has a number of surprisingly original elements to diversify the tired castle defense gameplay too.

I agree with everyone as I was pleasantly surprised by World War Z. I thought the Hoard Zombies were an interesting take on the zombie genre.

I love that each film is a blend of genres as they add their comedic style to a zombie horror film or in this case tackling the sci - fi genre and the apocalypse.

In the latest spinoff of the real estate defence genre, «Cowards vs. Zombies», play as a bumbling green - capped mansioneer, and try to escape the wrath of undead sports trainers who want to get you fit into a coffin!

With that come some not - too - subtle nods to the history of the zombie genre, lest you forget that the the shambling brain - munchers started out as a critique of mindless American consumerism.

Nothing great or profound as I had hoped for but I liked this twist on the zombie genre.

Similar to «Hot Fuzz» and «Shaun of the Dead,» each of which works as a genre film (buddy cop for «Hot Fuzz» and zombie movie for «Shaun of the Dead») and a send - up of the genre itself, «You're Next» is a smartly devised horror movie masquerading as a really dumb one.

Stephen King once wrote a great but greatly under - read and under - appreciated novel called Cell about people's bodies being hijacked by a cellular signal, and it was as if he was tired of stupid zombie stories, that he almost flippantly wanted to show us that he could do it so much better, that the genre itself wasn't stupid as much as the people producing the media weren't very smart.

The Mummy spans millennia and genres, ripping off countless better movies as it yokes together crusading knights, rampaging Egyptian cadavers, howling zombies, campy literary figures and smirking tomb raiders.

A Midwestern farmer stays by the side of his beloved teenage daughter even as she slowly turns into a cannibalistic zombie, in this daring, genre - bending debut feature from director Henry Hobson.

Just think of it as a «zombie genre» film where the infected are the real enemy.

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 letteAs 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 letteas it is a fanatical love letter.

The original 1968 film has become iconic in the Horror genre and completely redefined the way we understand «zombies» in the traditional sense; this was the first time zombies by name had been featured as the undead, flesh - eating, slow - moving ghouls we have come to know in countless films and television shows since.

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.

Since Marc clearly wrote that he's read «literary» books as well as «genre,» your comment makes me think you believe his ability to comprehend the issue has been stunted because he's read something with a zombie on the cover.

Find out as an unlikely band of nerds use their genre savvy to survive in Fanboys vs. Zombies!

Throughout the development of the first State of Decay, and now its sequel, releasing May 22nd, Undead Labs has seen a number of trends hit it big in the industry, such as the meteoric rise of the battle royale genre (itself born from zombie survival games such as DayZ).

Zombies are a tried and true staple of the horror genre — as they have every right to be — but I can not think of a video game that made them more threatening and imposing than those terrible shamblers found within the dilapidated city of Dying Light.

Do not dismiss the entire genre as a load of brainless clones, though - below we have some of the best zombie games to shuffle their way onto PC.

If you're looking for an introduction to the beat»em up genre, look no further - as MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies is a prime choice for just that very purpose.

With all of the DLC, as well as a whole bunch of improvements to the visuals and gameplay, the Year - One Survival Edition turns State of Decay into «the definitive way of experiencing this fiercely unique zombie sim and a true highlight of the survival genre.»

Bend Studio attempts to take the genre in a different direction with Days Gone, which appears to be something crossed between Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead, mixed with aspects of World War Z. Just because there are zombies, though, that doesn't mean there won't be human antagonists as well.

For a genre that is often described as overdone, I give kudos to Housemarque for adding their unique take to the zombie genre.

As an oft - neglected sub sector of the zombie game genre, playing as the undead may not be something players are too familiar witAs an oft - neglected sub sector of the zombie game genre, playing as the undead may not be something players are too familiar witas the undead may not be something players are too familiar with.

As for the game itself, it shows promise to be quite the contender in the survival zombie game genre, which, in reality, is still quite new.

The movie giants said the game's gory CGI trailer would serve as the «primary creative inspiration» for the film that will be «an innovation of the zombie genre» due to its «focus on human emotion, family ties and non-linear storytelling».

As you'd guess, it's a hill climbing game with zombies in it, combining every trope we've seen in both the runner and climbing genres.

That, it seems, is what's happening here as they play to expand the more popular sides of the game — 22 % of Black Ops 3 Zombies players performed all the rituals in the mode's launch map — and taking a stab at the Battle Royale genre wouldn't exactly be that surprising given its current popularity.

Therefore, is it possible, looking back on the all information gathered in this article that the pirate genre might become as successful as the current zombie genre is today?

It's interesting to note that there is apparently an uprising in another type of genre in the gaming industry, one that seems to be gaining as much momentum as the zombie genre that I've dedicated this article to.

The Last of Us utilises all the horror tropes mentioned above, including fast zombies (otherwise known as infected) and the variations which were introduced during the earlier days of the zombie genre.

Originally published as a six - issue mini-series, it offers a mash - up of genres, pitting classic literary figure Sherlock Holmes and his trusty sidekick Watson against a zombie outbreak — and their old nemesis Professor Moriarty — in 1898 London.

The problem with Plants vs. Zombies Heroes is that it exists as a card game in an age where Hearthstone is dominant, and Clash Royale has come on the scene as a post-Hearthstone game, applying its own take to the CCG and MOBA genres that so many others have tried to capitalize on.

As is expected from Microsoft, the software on show featured plenty of sequels across traditional genres, including two flavours of zombie game in Dead Rising 4 and State of Decay 2, shooting aliens in Gears of War 4, real - time strategy in Halo Wars 2, punching and kicking in Tekken 7, and racing through Australia in Forza Horizon 3.

With the release of the third installment of the Dead Rising series we were told we'd see a whole new door opened for not only the series, but the zombie - crunching genre as well.

Like many games of this genre (even Yooka - Laylee), the story eventually involves wacky animal characters and creatures such as a skeletal jazz musician (justified by the zombie dust) and an aged female scientist who is a turtle (I have no idea about that one).

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.