Sentences with phrase «zombie horror film»

In addition to the four new maps, the Sabotage DLC also includes the next chapter in Willard Wylie's sadistic zombie horror film, Rave in the Redwoods.

The lovingly crafted romantic comedy and zombie horror film — a «rom - zom - com,» as marketing called it — remains, perhaps, the most satisfying of any of them.

In 1968, director George A. Romero made his directorial debut with the — now infamous — zombie horror film «Night Of The Living Dead ``.

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.

Ellen Page is looking spiffy at the premiere of her new zombie horror film The Cured at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival!

Part zombie horror film and part romantic comedy, «Shaun of the Dead» stars Simon Pegg as the 29 - year - old slacker Shaun.

A vacuous entity that wouldn't be out of place in a post-apocalyptic zombie horror film.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK (AP)-- George Romero, whose classic «Night of the Living Dead» and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh - devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died.

But all varieties of horror flick are easily identifiable at this point, whether they're spooky, low - budget films (numerous); viscera - stained slasher movies (more numerous); quick - cut zombie flicks (even more numerous); macabre sci - fi, floating - in - space efforts (somewhat less numerous than they should be); sexualized vampiric tales (I trip over one of these whenever I get the newspaper); films of the more critically favored retro - mashup variety (Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Death Proof plus Planet Terror feature Grindhouse); or foreign entries of the psychological horror variety (the works of Dario Argento, of course; Alexandre Aja's films, which have their defenders; and Juan Antonio Bayona's El Orfanato, which only someone who truly dislikes cinema can dismiss).

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.

In horror films, people become zombies by whatever process is deemed scariest by the filmmaker of the era — magic, possession, viral infection — but the result is the same.

Spotting a horror - film zombie should be easy enough, but the zombies of philosophers» thought experiments are a different matter.

«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.

More an action blockbuster than a horror squelcher, it contains spectacular crowd scenes that have an Hieronymus Bosch quality, but the film lacks strong meat — of the emotional and bloody zombie - cannibal sort.

Fans of horror / zombie movies should enjoy this even if it is a step below quite a few other classic zombie films.

While directors Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion want to have their laughs and horror, too, the film is something of a zombie itself: half - alive and bloody, but lacking any heart.

Whilst filming their latest horror masterpiece, a group of young filmmakers unwittingly open a portal to an alternative dimension that happens to be occupied by hordes of angry, and very hungry, zombies

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.

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.

Unlike many of the slasher / zombie / out and out horror films, FAULTS relies on its fear coming from the audience's involvement and its ability to provoke thoughts.

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.

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.

A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).

This scary picture, a remake of a 2003 Korean horror film by British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, is three movies in one: a psychological thriller, a murder mystery and a zombie flick.

Soavi crafts yet another memorable horror film that is a very entertaining and is sure to delight zombie film fans.

Assuming Stone accepts the offer to portray Miss Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the next big move for the horror / romantic literature mashup would be to fill the role of the infamously stuck - up Mr. Darcy in the film.

While the film quality isn't the greatest due to the use of digital film, the lack of stars and its classic throwback to the early zombie movies creates a great genre film for both horror fans and those looking for something different.

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.

The first Troma film in years to get a theatrical run is an aggressively absurd, outrageously gory and comically grotesque horror farce: part Poltergeist, part Alien, part Dead Alive, all zombie chicken musical, with more excruciating puns that you thought was humanly possible.

And, in a horror tradition dating back to the first zombie films, your supposed friends can be the most dangerous factor of all.

It will probably flat - line next weekend because sequels and horror films tend to have a large second week drop — although having said that, there's already word that Milla Jovovich will be kicking zombie butt on the big screen again.

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.

Many of you are probably familiar with Tommy Wirkola's latest film Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters which found surprising success at the box - office, but what he was mostly known for before this years hit was the blood soaked Nazi zombie horror flick Dead Snow.

So we've assembled our take on the 50 best horror films of the 21st century — the zombie - apocalypse tales, things - that - go - bump - in - the - psyche ghost stories, retro - slasher flicks, neo-giallo nuggets, J - horror, K - horror, French extreme and Hollywood franchise films that have spooked us, shook us and scared us shitless since 2000.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

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.

«Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» has unleashed a new U.K. trailer that deftly blends the themes of Jane Austen's classic with the tropes of the horror and action genres, while laying out the film's premise.

Zombie master George Romero directed this tale of a film crew who are shooting a low - budget horror movie when a zombie outbreak occurs.

Although it works better as a romantic comedy than as a horror movie, this film is cute and breezy with a likable cast that might help zombie fans overlook the glaring lack of gore.

Next we had cinema's first zombie, then serial killers, «based on a true story» stories, which led to the fake documentary horror movies, followed by Olympic athlete zombies and, in the last few years, we got the torture porn films.

The film features winks to other zombie titles whilst remaining thoroughly original amongst the subgenre of films (it's certainly no horror film, that's for sure) plus multiple Twin Peaks references and one particularly wonderful nod to St Elmo's Fire.

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.

For one, it saw the release of Night of the Living Dead, George Romero's low - budget, immensely influential zombie thriller, which essentially birthed an entire subgenre of horror films.

Jim Mickle's indie Stake Land was one of 2010's best horror films — its post-apocalyptic road movie structure was familiar, but its gritty use of vampires (instead of, say, zombies) was distinctive.

I hoped to continue this winning run with the South Korean zombie film Train to Busan, which has been gathering a lot of acclaim from critics and horror fans alike.

Entertainment One Films US has acquired North American distribution rights to two films: horror thriller The Hunted and zombie comedy April Apocalypse, pictured above, Bloody Disgusting learned.

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.

ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction — This low - budget horror film takes a scattershot approach to social commentary that tends toward the funny and entertaining, if not particularly mind - blowing side.

The original film remains one of the most influential horror movies ever made, and the sequel is pretty much the Casablanca of zombie cinema.

The zombies all sound very similar, as if they were taken from a generic 60's horror film.