zombie films

[EvilDevo]

anybody here a zombie film fan? if so what are your favorites and the reasons? mine are as follows:

1) night of the living dead (remake):

trapped in a rural farmhouse, a handful of survivors struggle to stay alive with a few dozen walking corpses trying to eat them

the fact the remake is in color as opposed to the black and white original makes it a better movie in general... more enjoyable, but i think the story from the original is better. so watch them both, original first

i like the fact it resembles resident evil (remake for gamecube - far scarier) which is the best zombie horror idea ever created, and the movie resident evil should have followed the game more closely

2+3) dawn of the dead / day of the dead

sequals to the night... this time, the zombies infest larger cities, buildings and sewers, but basically the same idea. not as good as the first, but still really cool

4) 28 days later

not so much a zombie movie, as there are no real zombies, but the basic elements of a zombie film are all here, so ill call it one. amazingly entertaining! i loved how intense the mansion ending scenes were, and how eerie it was to see london abandoned completely save for a few people and hordes of "infected"

a very very good movie, scary, suspenseful, and gory... i love this movie and recommend it highly

5) resident evil

well... not the best movie. in fact a pretty bad movie. but the fact that it takes zombies seriously and not as a bunch of wise-cracking, brain-eating morons (like in return of the living dead 1 and 2, and so many others) makes it a little more tolerable

on the other hand, i didnt like the story... the fact it strayed so much from the game series. and im not a fan of most of the actors, not fitting in a zombie film... except for maybe the actor who played matt, he was alright

good for a serious zombie film, otherwise stick to the resident evil games on the gamecube, they are 100% better

[Attila the Professor]

Well, I can't say I've seen any zombie films, but I have seen the classic McCarthy-era allegory, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," which kind of falls under the category. I thought rather highly of that film, even though it is a B-movie (though I am biased towards anti-McCarthy allegories...)

[Venture]

The Professorial One never ceases to amaze in his astronomical couth!! I've yet to see a zombie movie I like, although 28 Days Later looks interesting.

[Pilot]

"I Walked With a Zombie" is a classic atmospheric zombie movie.

[swords]

Night of the Living Dead: What can I say about the mother of all zombie flicks? This one, took the gendre and brought it in an whole new direction. The first part is my favorite, so spoilers ensure, but I need to describe it nevertheless, it needs to be told! A brother and a sister are visiting their father's grave, and the setting starts with them driving up a meandering hill to the ultimate setting, a grave yard. At this graveyard, the brother teases his sister when he sees a distant fellow slowly making his way towards them.

"Barbara, he's coming to kill us, lets run for our lives!" Apparently, Barbara doesn't like the cemetary. So yes, run indeed, since in fact that man is a zombie! this is where the movie takes off, and the man attacks her brother and she runs and eventually finds refuge in a cabin where she will eventually meet the protangonist, Ben(of course this is my appreviated version, theres a good ten minutes where she runs from the aforementioned zombie in a good cat and mouse chase. Very effective opening actually...).

As for the black and white, well, it works in favor for the film as it heightens the mood and atmosphere, much like the Birds. And speaking of the Birds, both carry similiar themes of regular people who barracade themselves against extraordinary circumstances(Im also surprise that of the many reviews of this film that I have read, there was no attempt at a comparison, gee thats extraordinary). and I think these two films would work great as a double feature on Halloween, for instance, so if you're contemplating that...

And speaking of the Black and White issue, I also think it gives it a unique class and it represents that this is in fact an classic film, but Im just seeing it from that perspective.

The drama, the acting is quite steller from the cast, and theres gore, yes, gore for 1969 and it works great. It doesn't overindulge and when there is gore on the screen it is quite disturbing. The infamous "feast", where, after a failed attempt to recovery fuel, (and which leads to two characters demise), we finally get to see the zombies amuse their appetite. And the score for these parts work well, kind of like a grudgy guitar tune, and adds to the tone.

The climax is reveting, as the zombies finally break through and enter. And the last scene is very depressing, which is alright by me...

I'll review "Dawn" later...

[swords]

...I know I kept everyone waiting in suspense, so...;)

Anyway, yes, Dawn, Dawn of the Dead!

This is kind of like the modern equivilent of Night. Where Night revolutionized the gendre, this one reinvented it. And I dispise the fact that this really isn't in high quantities in video stores, since almost all movies(of the gendre anyway) borrowed something from it. So if you are watching something from the eighties, and it happens to have over the top gore, and, hmm, zombies in it, well, it ripped an page off this one not the other way around! Yes, even 28 Days Later borrowed from Dawn(although 28 Days Later is quite steller in its own right).


I think its pointless if I review it, it would appear disjointed and an mess like above, so instead I will direct you to this anaylisis which I always enjoy reading:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/click/movie-1005339/reviews.php?critic=columns&sortby=default&page=1&rid=299902