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16:14 / 15.04.08

Loving the trailers.

I really should see RotLD III sometime. I recently re-watched the first one and was kind of surprised by its cheesiness.

01:21 / 16.04.08

I, Zombie

Return of the Living Dead III is sort of cheesy too but it has the love story which I thought they could of amped up the horror element with the love story. Julie though is one of the unsung horror icons I think..

Everyone put down the essential zombie flicks so I put some that might have been under the radar of what the other posters put as their favorites.

My absolute favorites are the Night of the Living dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead with Evil Dead II and Brain Dead AKA Dead Alive being to the close 2nds. The serious tones of the original George Romero movies is what makes it truely horrific. The remake of Dawn of the Dead was good I thought and the dead virus 21 days later was just as good.

some others that some posters didn't pick that might be of interest are Fulci's Zombi Aka Zombie 2. I've also been meaning to check out I, Zombie but haven't been able to.

Fulci's Zombi aka Zombie 2

02:55 / 16.04.08

I think I need to rewatch BioZombie soon, just to see if it's really as good as I remember.

Government conspiracy, a mall, people butting heads for reasons of generational and class differences (and idiocy), wait now WTF recognition of the walking dead, and acknowledgement that the videogame generation may be uniquely trained for zombie jobs. And amidst all the teenaged wackiness, gross out humor, and death, there's some genuinely sweet moments, and some really dark ones.

08:43 / 16.04.08

I have a real soft spot for thissun:

Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue

It's a fairly mucky 70s gore flick and an ex-video nasty of mixed European progeny (Italo/Brit/Spanish and with a bizarro Irish-American police officer). I first saw it in an illicit late night zombie binge at school - alongside a couple of Romeros and an Evil Dead. What I love most about this movie is the scriptwriter's rather quaint view of Merry Olde Englande.

George, our hero, is a beardy hippy and...um...an antiques dealer. Sticking it to the man has never seemed so staid. George's clash with the aforementioned police officer provides some classic moments (including dated references to 'long hair and faggot clothes') as well as a nice payoff at the finish. Hippy Britain is portrayed as the sort of place where, even when the weather looks ultra peaky, the hippy sorts are unafraid of whipping off their clothes in the street and, like, dancing. Crazy kids etc.
Oh, and Manchester is apparently mostly fields. Spot on.

13:23 / 20.04.08

if you haven't seen it, the italian cut of dawn of the dead is really interesting. it has some footage that isn't in any other cut i've seen, it used the word "zombie" at least once, and it moves a lot faster. it also doesn't have the helicopter zombie head chop scene.

i caught it last night at an event that also had a zombie costume contest, celtic metal band, and horror themed burlesque act.

15:05 / 20.04.08

Mr. Coweatman, that event didn't have anything to with Cinema Apocalypse , did it?

15:02 / 26.04.08

Two Evil Eyes American dvd cover

More good zombie movies that might have been overlooked by others for the list from none other than the Master Zombie crafter George Romero and one from his friend and the Maestro of Horror Dario Argento, yes the director of the 2nd version of the original Dawn of The Dead! and whose brother Maestro Horror producer Claudio Argento who produced the 70's Dawn of the Dead for George Romero to continue his saga of the zombies from Night of the Living Dead!
Creepshow
Creepshow 2
Two Evil Eyes The Case of M. Valdemar segment dir by George Romero
Two Evil Eyes the Black Cat segment dir by Dario Argento

Essential Dazzler

01:07 / 07.05.08

I just got done watching [rec] a Spanish horror film that I hadn't heard of until about 3 hours ago. I've tried writing a proper post about it, but I've found it impossible to do without indulging in massive spoilers. I don't think it's been mentioned on Barbelith before, so I'll give it a day or two before I unleash my spoilery-thought wrath.

Basically, [rec] is a Zombie film in the style of Blair Witch. In parts it scared me more than a zombie film ever has, and I'd honestly say that the few minutes before the finale has only been topped by a few David Lynch films and watching my friend play Silent Hill from behind the sofa.

I don't think it's an amazing film, but, as I said, I feel an essay coming on and this is neither the time or place.

Everybody go download it, It's worth a watch.

PLEASE.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:35 / 08.05.08

I NEED to see that film.

I just watched The Zombie Diaries, and for the most part was "well, yeah" and then at the end "okay, FUCK YEAH!". It was pretty good.

I am drunk enough that the only way I will make any sense is if you shoot me IN THE FUCKING HEAD; that way I may at least fall over coherently.

But I really, really want to see [REC] and am really, really trying hard not to download it... though I'm not gonna catch it at the movies... ah, fuck it.

Life's too short to try to catch it at the movies. There could be a zombie outbreak at any minute. I should probably watch it now, while the electricity's still on.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:37 / 08.05.08

...hard movie to look for on a search engine, though, I've just realised...

15:16 / 09.05.08

The IMDb quotes page for [rec] tells an interesting story in itself.

It appears to not be on Netflix, alas.

02:19 / 27.09.08

This is Halloween Halloween Halloween!!!!! I thought of some other zombies in film in celebration for All Hallow's Eve......

The Prince of Darkness original movie poster

The Prince of Darkness new dvd cover

First there are zombies in the excellent John Carpenter film Prince of Darkness the movie that gave me chills about the reawakening of the AntiChrist and the summoning up of zombies. Alice Cooper even shows up as a zombie who is impaled by a one wheeled partially disassembled bicycle....

The Prince of Darkness trailer

A Nightmare Before Christmas foreign Poster

Corpse Bride

Second there are zombies in the delight of a film A Nightmare before Christmas with music to die for by Danny Elfman and directed and animation and design by Tim Burton ...Also there is the beautiful Zombie in the Corpse Bride also by Tim Burton...

A Nightmare before Christmas trailer
Corpse Bride trailer

And always a treat.... there are zombies who know how to move and groove to the sick voodoo funk of zombiefied dance steps. The always great pop horror movie music video Thriller by Michael Jackson who really knows how to move them bones directed by John Landis with special guest and always the horror gentleman Vincent Price doing some grooving narration himself...

Michael Jackson Thriller Music Video

And sticking in line with the music here is some trick or treat goodies of the music movie kind with the OST Original Soundtracks to Horror Movies

The Exorcist OST
Psycho OST
Halloween OST
Jaws OST
Profondo Rosso aka Deep Red by Goblin OST
Omen OST
Zombi 2 OST
Dawn of the Dead OST
Phantasm OST
Hellraiser OST
Rosemary's Baby OST
Cannibal Halocaust OST
The Bride of Frankenstein OST
The Phantom of the Opera OST
Silent Hill on Celtic Harp
Dario Argento's Sleepless OST by Goblin
Dario Argento's Sleepless
Sweeney Todd trailer

22:36 / 29.09.08

A scary scene with a zombie in it from the Sentinel with Burgess Meredith...

The Sentinel

14:43 / 30.09.08

What the heck was The Sentinel?

I don't remember that at all.

17:18 / 30.09.08

It's one of the less terrible films made my Michael Winner. Which isn't saying much, really.
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Infamous if only for the controversy surrounding the aforementioned insurance salesman's casting cripples and disabled persons to represent demons and various beasties.

19:28 / 30.09.08

I highly recommend Dance of the Dead, a very bloody Zombie comedy, that I reviewed here.

13:33 / 11.02.09

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies book moved to April 4 release, much talk of film.

Oh. My.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

21:14 / 11.02.09

Not sure if it counts as a movie, as it was a TV series, but Charlie Brooker's (God, I love that man) Dead Set, about which I think we already have a thread, is THE BEST ZOMBIE THING I'VE SEEN IN YEARS. Apart from maybe Left4Dead, but that's DEFINITELY not a movei, what with being a video game.

15:53 / 12.02.09

Is that out on DVD?

And... does the pacing of the series as a series let it do things a movie can't?

I really know nothing about it - haven't even looked in the other thread, because I'm in the US.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:53 / 12.02.09

Yeah, it's out on DVD. And the first time it was shown it was in five parts, one a night- recently they showed it as three longer episodes. It's quite long, so nothing is really rushed. Haven't tried watching it all in one go, but I'd recommend it.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

19:13 / 12.02.09

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies book moved to April 4 release, much talk of film.

I'm sure I mentioned the theater performance "Twelfth Night of the Living Dead" somewhere on Barbelith...really very good. not really a movie you can go rent though.

20:25 / 26.06.09

I Love Sarah Jane is oddly touching, and is much more sophisticated than you'd think.

Sweet and poignant.

22:58 / 27.06.09

I love Sarah Jane too!! Great short film. Sort of reminds me of the callous characters in River's Edge....Thanks for sharing....

15:29 / 29.06.09

Woody Harrelson kicking ass:
Here
Yes!

13:28 / 11.07.09

Some Spanish Zombie films I recently enjoyed were the Blind Dead Series...beautiful Spanish virgins are sacrificed to the Knights Templar risen back from the dead. Cool skeletal make up too.....

Tombs of the Blind Dead trailer
Return of the Evil Dead trailer
Ghost Galleon trailer
The Night of the Seagulls trailer

19:19 / 16.07.09

"i love Sarah Jane" is fantastic, thanks for the tip on that.

fyi, the director is currently at work on a feature film called Hesher starring Joseph Gordon Levitt

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