Sentences with phrase «zombie genre in»

It appears that people are still not tired of the zombie genre in games.

George Romero introduced us to the zombie genre in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead, he had intended it to be an intelligent satirical device.

New life, so to speak, for the zombie genre in a fun indie adventure, and a fine puzzling platformer from Curve Digital

Still, the whole zombie genre in video games has become tiresome, only creating another hurdle for Survive to jump through.

The clever new addition to the zombie genre in «Cargo» is that those bitten by the undead don't turn instantly like in so many other movies.

Aside from Pegg's thoughtful musings on The World's End, I also got an incredibly candid response from him when we discussed the zombie genre in general.

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.

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.

Dead Rising 4's focus on fun makes it stand out in the zombie genre.

It flouts convention in a number of ways in service of its genre - mash - up agenda while still contributing something original to the tradition of the zombie film.

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.

After breaking through with films made by an emerging avant garde — including Josh Trank's Chronicle, Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines and Josh Krokidas» Kill Your Darlings — this year the 28 - year - old actor has starred in two very of - the - moment genres, first playing Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's childhood pal turned homicidal supervillain Green Goblin, in The Amazing Spider - Man 2, and now appearing opposite Aubrey Plaza in the zombie comedy Life After Beth.

(There's a lot of meat to be mined in a clever dissection of the zombie genre, in other words, whereas most action flicks of this type are already self - parodying exercises in excessive hetero - affirmation amidst much piece - fondling and weeping.)

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.

George A. Romero's terrifying classic, the movie that invented the zombie genre, in a stunning new 4K restoration.

Speaking to «Maggie» s zombie genre expectations, no one actually says «zombie» in the film.

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's an inconsistent work overall, but there's enough to like here for fans of the genre (of which I am certainly one) and it's refreshing to see someone work in a register the zombie movies haven't really utilized lately,» observes Brian Tallerico at RogerEbert.com.

In other hands, a zombie movie is just a zombie movie, but Land of the Dead, a horror film laced with rife with social commentary, political satire, and black humor, is not just a return to the genre he practically single - handedly created (or at least definitively redefined), but a return to form.

I desperately wanted this game to be stellar, being a huge fan of the zombie genre especially with survival mechanics thrown in the mix.

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.

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.

In recent years the zombie movie genre has sprouted a little comedy sub genre, the zom - com if you will, and Jeff Baena, who made I Heart Huckabees, writes and directs this latest addition to the sub genre.

Recent zombie flick «The Cured» proved there's undead life in a very well worn genre, and just like you think you've seen...

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.

In the flood of so many zombie games releasing, how does Fatshark attempt to keep the genre interesting and fresh, and perhaps more importantly, do they succeed?

A few years back, when «Night of the Living Dead» - redolent zombie movies started popping up like, well, zombies, there was a joke among movie mavens who were past masters of the genre, to the effect of «Haven't the characters in these zombie movies ever seen any... zombie movies?

It's also hard to call this a zombie film because the monsters in this movie aren't really zombies, but Doyle truly reinvents the horror genre with this intellectually political and intensely horrifying film.

In between the mindnumbing blandness of countless Living Dead knockoffs, my ongoing inability to understand the inexplicable popularity of The Walking Dead, and a pronounced boredom with this genre's tropes, I had more or less decided not to bother with zombie movies (or TV shows!)

With the zombie genre, I imagine you get the diehard fans that get really upset when a zombie movie is less than what they have in their mind.

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.

Overall, Train to Busan is a massively entertaining zombie apocalypse film that offers a more layered take on a genre that has become increasingly exploited in the name of cheap thrills.

In Shaun of the Dead (2004), they ostensibly set out to spoof the zombie genre, but wound up instead creating a keenly observed comedy that merely happened to be set in and around a hoard of zombieIn Shaun of the Dead (2004), they ostensibly set out to spoof the zombie genre, but wound up instead creating a keenly observed comedy that merely happened to be set in and around a hoard of zombiein and around a hoard of zombies.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin star in a zombie film that brushes against the perceived boundaries of both the zombie genre and its star.

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.»

In Shaun of the Dead he took the zombie genre and gave it a comedic twist, while still keeping true to the spirit of horror.

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!

In a move destined to delight genre fans, Deadline reports that popular Game of Thrones actors Charles Dance and Lena Headey will mix it up with the undead — no, not wights — in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and ZombieIn a move destined to delight genre fans, Deadline reports that popular Game of Thrones actors Charles Dance and Lena Headey will mix it up with the undead — no, not wights — in the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombiein the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

Until writer - director Jeff Baena loses his way in the last third, he provides a fresh, silly - touching take on the zombie genre.

Ably assisted by screenwriter Mike Carey, adapting his own bestseller from 2014, their film takes the elaborately overdone zombie genre and resuscitates it, while also taking and revamping a handful of well - established genre tropes ---- apocalypse premise, creepy kids, mad scientists ---- and tweaks them in eccentric and imaginative new ways.

We can't seem to move these days without stumbling into the path of a zombie movie, making one wonder why walking dead with a penchant for fast food are suddenly so alluring.When George A Romero effectively created the genre in the late Sixties and...

In 1968, George A. Romero not only invented the modern zombie genre, but revolutionized horror with this incredible film that merges social commentary and scares.

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.

While George A. Romero may have invented zombies 50 years ago, Danny Boyle evolved them 35 years later in this gritty, violent, kinetic take on the genre.

I'm a bit tired of zombie movies these days to be honest, but I have faith in the Koreans to inject a bit of fresh blood into the genre and from what I'd heard, Train to Busan had done just that.

«That was around the time that The Walking Dead was in its zenith, and we were just really interested in dabbling in the zombie genre and seeing if there was something a little bit fresh that we could bring to that,» Ramke said, sitting down at Deadline's Tribeca Studio with Howling, producer Kristina Ceyton and star Martin Freeman.

With Shaun of the Dead, they completely flipped - upside down onto its own decaying head the zombie / horror genre itself, making one of the most comical and enjoyable spoofs in recent memory.

An extremely loose, glossy adaptation of the relatively obscure 2006 independent studio graphic novel of the same name by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, Cowboys & Aliens isn't the first mash - up of Westerns and science fiction (Westworld, Wild Wild West and Back to the Future Part III are other examples), but it is one of the first in a popular burgeoning trend in mixing genres that has seen books like «Pride and Prejudice & Zombies» become popular.

ShockYa recently had the chance to talk to Gillespie one - on - one about what attracted him to «Fright Night,» what he thought about shooting the movie in 3 - D, and his next film, the genre mash - up «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.»