Sentences with phrase «zombie novels by»

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In my spare time, I love to garden like a granny in my little inner city tropage «tropical cottage» garden, hang out with the Blokefolk, be bossed around by the Bunny Bros, read historical fiction and zombie novels, collect retro souvenir scarves, rescue vintage English bone china from op shops, indulge my latte love and drink endless pots of tea.

MPAA Rating: PG - 13 for intense frightening zombie sequences, violence and disturbing images Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, David Morse, James Badge Dale, Mathew Fox Credits: Directed by Marc Forster, scripted by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, Damon Lindelof, based on the Max Brooks novel.

By 2006, when Max Brooks published his novel «World War Z» (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's population.

I'm trying to like it but the dumb writing and the graphic novel character development and the idiotic moves made by the characters reminds me of Revolution (w / Zombies).

Allegedly inspired by the true story of a Mexican man named Gojo Cardinas who killed dozens of women under the apparent influence of his mother before being incarcerated and rehabilitated, Santa Sangre is in many ways a novel retelling of Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), with that film's psychosexual subtext here put on full display with overt symbolism (e.g. Concha, the castrating mother's name, is slang for «vagina») and mixed with elements of The Hands of Orlac (Robert Wiene, 1924), The Invisible Man and George Romero's zombie films.

The script by Jonathan Levine (50/50) and adapted from the novel by Isaac Marion offers a few nice nods to zombie movies of yore and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

If you are not aware of it, «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter» is actually based on the New York Times Best Selling novel by Seth Grahame - Smith, author of «Pride and Prejudice and Zombies» (who also wrote this screenplay).

In theaters now is Jonathan Levine's Warm Bodies, an adaptation of Isaac Marion's novel, about a zombie called R, played by Nicholas Hoult, that falls for a girl named Julie, played by Teresa Palmer.

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.

Based on the acclaimed graphic novel and developed by Frank Darabont (The Mist, Shawshank Redemption) much in The Walking Dead would be familiar to both horror and sci - fi genre fans, right from the patient awaking from a coma to a post-apocalyptic future (28 Days Later..., Day of the Triffids) to a planet overrun by zombies.

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.

Based on the 2014 novel by Mike Carey (who also wrote the screen adaptation), «The Girl with All the Gifts» is a zombie movie with a heart.

by Walter Chaw That idiot Timur Bekmambetov continues his reign of terror with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, an adaptation of a Seth Grahame - Smith novel co-written by Grahame - Smith himself that tries to walk the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies line between reverence and camp but only manages to be ugly and stupid.

Eduardo Rodriguez will direct Fragile, a zombie pic based on the graphic novel by Stephano Raffaele (shop Amazon).

by Walter Chaw Marc Forster's World War Z, an adaptation of Max Brooks's cause célèbre novel (think Stephen Ambrose on the zombie apocalypse) that had a production so troubled the real surprise is Terry Gilliam had nothing to do with it, lands as half an idea, handsomely mounted in a really expensive crater.

Inspired by Max Brooks» 2006 post-apocalyptic novel «World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War,» the first film starred Pitt as a former United Nations investigator who must find a way to stop a global zombie pandemic.

And you can't tell me that the latest zombie pulp novel picked up by Kensington Press is superior to all self - published fiction simply due to the fact that it was traditionally published.

I don't usually read zombie novels, except I'm missing out on an entire group of my beloved post-apocalyptic stories by doing that, so when this showe

Although you can refine your elevator pitch («It's like if Tom Clancy wrote a zombie novel» is one I've used for the Joe Ledger books, by Jonathan Maberry), that only works if you know a specific book and its appeal well.

Moody made a name for himself by giving away his zombie novel Autumn from his website, in the process creating fans who would pay for subsequent novels.

Not all fictional works, but especially novels where there is an audience that can discover it (zombies, romance, mystery — sure, some genres have more competition among books, but this is compensated for by having more readers), and where the book is pretty good.

If you're writing a novel about zombies and a character is attacked by an undead hoard, at some point you may write, «The man was bitten by zombies.»

This being a title inspired by Japanese romance games, Reggie must not only team up with the game's six adorably dead heroines to battle the zombie menace, but also win their hearts through visual novel style dialogue trees where the right answer can be mean the difference between life and undead.

Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs Zombies is a graphic novel written by Ian Edgington with artwork by Tom Mandrake.