Zombie movies

I guess most people feel it easier to call people "zombies" then it is to call them "THE RAGED!!!!". My beef with 28 days is how the dad went out like a bitch. That's all really.

 

People,go watch Shaun of the Dead.

 

I thought 28 days was a great film until the party met the soldiers. It went downhill from there, but i think it's still a good film.

I liked the RE films for superficial reasons. I've never played the games in full lenghth so I only know the story loosely. I liked the first film for the girls mostly. Milla and Michelle are hot. And I liked the way they tied-in the sequel.

I remember seeing the trailer for RE2 and thinking it was going to be total crap; a giant zombie with a grenade launcher?!?! Then some friends said that the giant zombie (Nemesis) was like that in the game and he fits into the story. So I saw it and enjoyed it. Milla playing Alice is such a bad ass and sexy too. But Mike Epps stole the show for me as comedy relief.

I loved Shaun of the Dead. I saw it with my girlfriend and it sorta drew us closer together. She got the DVD for me for X-mas. /versus/images/graemlins/grin.gif

But honestly, I feel I shouldn't even be posting in this thread because I'm not familiar with the Romero classics. Is Tony Todd(Candyman) in one of them? I remember seeing him in a zombie film as the leader of a group of norms holding zombies at bay from entering a house and he turns into one of them near the end. Which film is that?

 

yea the candyman was in the remake of night of the living dead. it was absolutly brilliant considering this was made during the 90s where remakes was not very common. unlike today. (sigh, manchurian candidate.............)

the film was kinda smart as well when it handled the remake. like in the original there was a woman who lost her brother to the zombies in the first 10 minutes and she goes completly insane and mute from it. in the remake she turns into rambo. now this sounds sorta bad compared to the remake but it actually quite works.

 

Without the military men in 28 Days Later you don't get the anti-fascist message, though the movie is more fun when they are running around through the city.

By the way, 28 Days Later is a zombie movie wheher the director says it is or not. "Normal" people in a world where all of humanity suffers from an affliction that makes them mindlessly violent= Zombie Movie. Just because the zombies are fast does make them something completely different.

 

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I don't know? I think after playing the Resident Evil series for so long I kind of have gotten used to the slow and dimwitted type of zombies. Personally, I think the Resident Evil type of zombies are scarier when they move in that slow and sadistic way. A zombie that can jump and move really fast isn't techincally a zombie, it's more of a monster.

 

no one mentions evil dead and army of darkness for fun?
blashphemy

althought not completely a zombie movie
i heard dog soldiers is a good watch

 

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you are forgetting the appearance of the first 'modern' zombie in the Original night of the living dead. This particular zombie acted up as if he was pumped full of adrenaline. He effectivly Knocked (not bite) out the first victim, then chased a car, caught up with it, tried to pull of the door in a hurriedly way and when he found out he couldnt open it, proceeded to try to smash the window with a big rock. This was the first Modern zombie ever. i say modern zombie cuz ive seen old 1930-40 films were a zombie was just a mindless slave.

so yea i guess by reviewing the first ever modern zombie and comparing it to 28 days later ppl, the 28 days later ppl are more of a varient of a zombie, but still a zombie nonetheless.

 

At the risk of sounding like a wanker I must say that the Deadites in the Evil Dead movies are not zombies because

1. They are victims of Demonic possession

2. They have magical powers

3. They say things (Like "I'll swallow your soul")

4. They have an agenda (including swallowing souls)

Someone please kick me in the nuts for arguing this point.

The creatures in Dead-Alive are definitely zombies, however. That is a funny, grueome movie. That's the only movie I've seen with zombie fucking and a zombie baby, so that's gotta count for something.

 

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Deez Nuts

Oh, my aching ballsack!