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Haus of Mystery

10:27 / 31.08.04

I thought it looked like a load of uninspired CGI wank.

Creepshow's got a couple of nice zombie moments. Particularly Undead Ted Danson dripping with seaweed.

I like Creepshow.

Lord Morgue

14:03 / 31.08.04

I liked Creepshow 2- "I beat you! I beat you!" GLOMP!

Benny the Ball

15:12 / 31.08.04

Resident Evil was terrible, the editor was obviously strung out on caffine and listening to thrash metal when he put that pile of tosh together.

As for Creepshow, "I want my cake!"

Plus, how many films starring Ted Danson and Leslie Neilson can you say actually scared you a little bit when you were young?

Still think Serpent and the Rainbow is being overlooked.

rizla mission

17:23 / 31.08.04

..the editor was obviously strung out on caffine and listening to thrash metal..

How can that possibly be a BAD thing....?

Lord Morgue

12:06 / 01.09.04

You just described my whole life...

Lord Morgue

07:56 / 02.09.04

The Stuff had some good zombie moments, the whole "consumer-zombie" parody of advertising and fast food worked quite well.
Dead of Night was odd- the corpses weren't really animate- they just float over and smother you.
Ooh, George Romero's mangling of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" in "Two Evil Eyes" was entertaining. Also worth it for Harvey Kietel wigging out bigtime in Dario Argento's half.
Dead and Buried had some good ideas. I like the concept of reanimation being the logical extension of the mortician's job of making the corpse look presentable. And I love the final scene- "Let me fix those for you." Would have been better with William Shatner and Vincent Price, though. No one but the Shat-man can deliver lines like "OH NO! IT'S A NIGHTMARE!!!" with authority.

foot long subbacultcha

12:52 / 02.09.04

Don't think anyone's mentioned Versus..

But then I guess there's all sorts of great Japanese/Korean weirdness to choose from

Benny the Ball

16:53 / 02.09.04

Versus was great, but I fell asleep towards the end (I have a real problem staying awake in films now days, I never bother renting films anymore because it can take me three days to get through one) so I'm not really clear on how it ends.

Does Frankenstien count as a Zombie film?

Lord Morgue

09:17 / 03.09.04

Raw Force was pretty funny. Jillian Kesner and the U.S. karate team V.S. an army of the undead in the Phillipines.

The Phuz

06:58 / 06.09.04

If you want to know everything about zombies in just about every medium then stroll along to:

http://www.allthingszombie.com

It has reviews of almost everything on the site, so if you want to know why people love the zombie genre you’ll find the answer there.

Lord Morgue

07:24 / 06.09.04

Oh, here's one- Silent Rage. Old, obscure Chuck Norris vehicle. Chucky goes up against a reanimated serial killer who's played as a cross between Frankenstein's creature and The Shape. Some actually quite effective suspense and action, and the guy playing the killer puts in a good little performance, for what he has to work with.

grant

18:59 / 21.06.05

Has there ever been a zombie surf film? If there hasn't, I think I may have to write one.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

22:24 / 21.06.05

grant: you write it, I'll buy a ticket.

Ah, zombies. How I love them. And fear them.

Guess everyone's seen it now, this thread being fairly old, but Shaun Of The Dead worked perfectly for me. On many levels. Romantic comedy? Check. Comedy of errors? Check. Zombie movie? Check. The greatest love story ever told- that of an Englishman and his local? Checkity-fuckin-check.

Triplets

00:35 / 22.06.05

Has there ever been a zombie surf film?

Shock Waves has zombies and surf. Not shure there's any actual hanging of 10 (or whatever, depeding on how many fingers've dropped off) but they're aquazombies.

bjacques

12:41 / 22.06.05

Undead, the Australian zombie movie, had some decent zombies and a hairy, reclusive hero. Great use of an energy drink. Extremely confusing ending, but great final scene.

+#'s, - names

13:11 / 22.06.05

I saw a preview of land of the dead last night and it really isnt an essential flick in this genre.

Haus of Mystery

13:52 / 22.06.05

What? You saw Land of The Dead? As in, the fourth Romero 'Dead' film? How? Is it out real soon? And why is it not essential?

EXPLAIN!

Triplets

17:31 / 22.06.05

It came out yesterday, Mac.

September 9th here.

Axolotl

18:06 / 22.06.05

Come on, All have #'s, Nun have names, how about some more detail on "Land of the Dead", a review, something! I was looking forward to it, so tell us - is it worth seeing?

Haus of Mystery

18:08 / 22.06.05

Hoo-hah. Please let it be good, please let it be good...

Off-topic: Did anyone see 'Bruiser'? Don't think it got a release over in Blighty.

bitchiekittie

14:13 / 01.07.05

I can't believe I missed a whole zombie movies thread.

I'm a bit shocked to hear people say that they think X or Y movie is shit; I love all my my horror babies, and if it's got zombies in it, it's 3,000x better for it. NO HATIN ON THE CHEESE!

re 28 days later: the fact that they die after not eating for a while is the only thing, to me, which disproves the zombie thing. they do, however, display all of the behaviors/characteristics of a zombie; the rage infection is just a new take on the mystery mutation that occurs to raise the dead, and can affect the living without a bite. so maybe we can all compromise and say that they're quasi-zombies?

Benny the Ball

14:22 / 01.07.05

I'd prefer pseudombies

sleazenation

15:22 / 01.07.05

how about pre-romero when most zombie flicks still had a haitian vibe to them - anyone seen I Walked with a Zombie - the Jane Eyre of zombie films...

Triplets

00:42 / 02.07.05

Oh ffs, the guys in 28 Days Later are zombies. Give it a rest.

I have just ordered my fave teenhood zombie flick, Return of the Living Dead. Shall post review soonly.

matthew.

00:17 / 06.07.05

I love Return of the Living Dead. How immortal is the line "Send more cops"? Love it to death and beyond.

I... er... enjoyed Land of the Dead. My favorite genre is zombie, so this movie had to work hard to live up to my expectations. On the whole, I was entertained. The sort-of-headless zombie gag was awesome, and clever. Otherwise, the main plot was a little off-putting and the ending was over the top cheese.

matthew.

00:17 / 06.07.05

grant

03:32 / 06.07.05

I've never seen I Walked With a Zombie, but I do have White Zombie on tape somewhere. Bela Lugosi is not what he seems... but in this movie, as in most of the other ones in which I've seen him, he has this mysterious ability to make me fall asleep.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

06:15 / 06.07.05

I'm in total zombie heaven at the moment- I picked up the NOTLD remake for six quid on Sunday, then on Monday found Zombie Flesh Eaters and ZFE2 for three quid each.

Zombies rule.

waxy dan

09:46 / 12.07.05

Big fan of Lifeforce, which I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet.

Funky because:
1. She spends most of the movie with her kit off (sorry, first saw the film in my early teenage years when things like that were very important)

2. London streets crawling with proper rotting flesheaters

3. Patrick Stewart as a zombie

4. It's decidely British, and you guys just do horror/sci-fi films better than the yanks.

I really like the original Dead trilogy. I think that they were made so far apart from each other allows the zombie to be used to portray some dominant fears/issues of the time. Racism, consumerism and blind allegiance.

It's like the various remakes of Body Snatchers. The aliens are used to symbolise slightly different fears.

grant

14:50 / 12.07.05

Troma Films is coming out with something called Poultrygeist: Attack of the Chicken Zombies. It's about a military-themed fast-food chain called "American Chicken Bunker" that builds an outlet on an Ancient Indian Burial Ground with the usual Predictable Results -- epidemic of flesh-eating walking dead.

Hiring lots of free labor/artisans (including a choreographer) in the Buffalo, NY area. There will, apparently, be musical numbers.

Directed by the same guy who brought us The Toxic Avenger.

bjacques

11:41 / 15.07.05

If you're in between zombie movies, DE-ANIMATOR! a Flash game inspired by Herbert West: Re-Animator.

distractile

14:14 / 07.05.07

So I saw a preview of 28 Weeks Later yesterday, and was pleasantly surprised. I'd expected the bigger budget to result in rampant sequelitis, but it's a restrained movie whose style and narrative follow on smoothly from the first film. So smoothly, actually, that I expect it'll be criticised for not breaking any new ground, but for me the switch to a new central metaphor -- "containing an insurgency" -- gave it a significantly different feel even if some of the plot mechanics were basically the same. (Some weren't: there were a fair number of new-to-me reversals of genre conventions.)

Can't say much more than that without spoiling it: anyone else seen it yet?

sleazenation

16:17 / 07.05.07

It goes on general release in the UK this coming Friday so I'll probably get back to you some time after that.

I saw the trailer today, finally getting round to seeing Sunshine. The trailer worked in that it made me want to see the film, maybe even a little bit more than I wanted to see Sunshine - which was a lot of fun.

sleazenation

16:23 / 07.05.07

Oooooh and something that is out right now Plane Dead. Snakes on a Plane, with zombies... and fewer snakes.

grant

15:00 / 07.09.07

Ooo! Ooo! Ooo!

George Romero might be redeeming himself!

He's making (has made?) another Dead movie, only not moving forward in the zombie apocalypse. He's starting over from the beginning with a bunch of college students. It's called Diary of the Dead.

Just learned about it now... apparently it's premiering at Toronto International Film Festival this year, which is going on now.

Anyone know more?

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