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Zombies: Then, now and the future...
Now who doesn't like a good zombie movie? I know i bloody love them from Night of the living dead to Zombie Strippers! The revamp of the zombie-horror genre in the past few years has left me craving more flesh eating, gut munching blood soaked action and so i began to reflect upon what the zombie incorporates and how the image of the modern day zombie has changed over the years as effects became more advanced.
First and foremost we must look at the work of George A.Romero, the so called king/creator of the zombie genre.
From Night of the living Dead to the less acclaimed Diary of the Dead, he has both frightened and entertained us while attempting to spread his idealistic messages to the public.
The slow shuffles of his legions of the undead created a feeling of hopelessness in audiences around the world and sparked in many minds including my own, the paranoid afterthought that said "What if this really happened?". I would assume that like myself that many zombie film lovers out there have at least considered their own zombie escape plan... Alaska people thats all Im saying...It is this ideas ability to captivate the viewer, to scare the living shit out of them that makes the Zombie film so loved. They can take you into an apocalyptic world of doom and gloom and show you what it would be like to be in an impossible situation where one bite mark could mean you will have to bludgeon to death your best friend to stay alive.
Next we move onto the modern films like 28Days/ weeks later (Danny Boyle you sexy btich), Qaurintine and Dawn of the Dead. Lacking in any real message these films are set to entertain and scare us into a stupour. We see a change in approach in these films. No longer is there much humour injected into these films they are simply there to frighten their audience (Although it must be made clear that Shaun or Shawn of the Dead, a fucking immense film in tis own right does play on the comedy of the old zombie flick, a comic homage to the films of yester-year its message don't run to the pub at the first sign of the zombie apocalypse?) The speed of zombies increased and with it the thrill factor of the films.
With these changes came a debate regarding the speed of zombies, slow or fast slow or fast, no this is not a porn director muling over a scene, rather that of a fan of zombies choosing between the original dawn of the dead or its adrenaline boosted remake.
Run bitch run!!!!!!!!
Is it the slow moving early zombies that inspire the most fear in the hearts of audience members or the olympic sprinters of the contemporary flicks. With speed there comes the jump shock element however, the slow moaning zombies of later days create a greater sense of impending doom and in my opinion create more tension as they stumble towards their helpless prey.
Another question raised is regarding the 28 days later franchise and the films Rec ( or Qauritine, i prefer the foreign film i feel makes it freakier having to read the subtitles), are these infected people really zombies?? Sure they have the whole bite/ eat people mentality, or lack there of, of Zombies but they don't really die and return to life. I guess who gives a shit because they both kick major ass and rape and pillage the likes of 'Diary of the Dead'.
Regardless of these debates It is these apparent differences and variable in the genre that make it one of my most loved. Bring on the brains, blood, guts and laughs and even maybe the sharks?!?!
NB Land of the Dead was not mentioned in this review, I don't need to explain why.
Please Please Please give me your thoughts on the Zombie horror genre what is your take on the films the debates and the future of the these brain hungry motherfuckers?
Fuck I Ramble.
My favourite zombie flicks:
1. 28 Days later
2. Shaun of the dead
3. Rec.
4. Braindead or DeadAlive to you folks across the water
5. Dawn of the dead
Check out the books World War Z also if you want a good zombie read or The Zombie Survival guide to learn how to survive!
First and foremost we must look at the work of George A.Romero, the so called king/creator of the zombie genre.
From Night of the living Dead to the less acclaimed Diary of the Dead, he has both frightened and entertained us while attempting to spread his idealistic messages to the public.
The slow shuffles of his legions of the undead created a feeling of hopelessness in audiences around the world and sparked in many minds including my own, the paranoid afterthought that said "What if this really happened?". I would assume that like myself that many zombie film lovers out there have at least considered their own zombie escape plan... Alaska people thats all Im saying...It is this ideas ability to captivate the viewer, to scare the living shit out of them that makes the Zombie film so loved. They can take you into an apocalyptic world of doom and gloom and show you what it would be like to be in an impossible situation where one bite mark could mean you will have to bludgeon to death your best friend to stay alive.
Next we move onto the modern films like 28Days/ weeks later (Danny Boyle you sexy btich), Qaurintine and Dawn of the Dead. Lacking in any real message these films are set to entertain and scare us into a stupour. We see a change in approach in these films. No longer is there much humour injected into these films they are simply there to frighten their audience (Although it must be made clear that Shaun or Shawn of the Dead, a fucking immense film in tis own right does play on the comedy of the old zombie flick, a comic homage to the films of yester-year its message don't run to the pub at the first sign of the zombie apocalypse?) The speed of zombies increased and with it the thrill factor of the films.
With these changes came a debate regarding the speed of zombies, slow or fast slow or fast, no this is not a porn director muling over a scene, rather that of a fan of zombies choosing between the original dawn of the dead or its adrenaline boosted remake.
Run bitch run!!!!!!!!
Is it the slow moving early zombies that inspire the most fear in the hearts of audience members or the olympic sprinters of the contemporary flicks. With speed there comes the jump shock element however, the slow moaning zombies of later days create a greater sense of impending doom and in my opinion create more tension as they stumble towards their helpless prey.
Another question raised is regarding the 28 days later franchise and the films Rec ( or Qauritine, i prefer the foreign film i feel makes it freakier having to read the subtitles), are these infected people really zombies?? Sure they have the whole bite/ eat people mentality, or lack there of, of Zombies but they don't really die and return to life. I guess who gives a shit because they both kick major ass and rape and pillage the likes of 'Diary of the Dead'.
Regardless of these debates It is these apparent differences and variable in the genre that make it one of my most loved. Bring on the brains, blood, guts and laughs and even maybe the sharks?!?!
NB Land of the Dead was not mentioned in this review, I don't need to explain why.
Please Please Please give me your thoughts on the Zombie horror genre what is your take on the films the debates and the future of the these brain hungry motherfuckers?
Fuck I Ramble.
My favourite zombie flicks:
1. 28 Days later
2. Shaun of the dead
3. Rec.
4. Braindead or DeadAlive to you folks across the water
5. Dawn of the dead
Check out the books World War Z also if you want a good zombie read or The Zombie Survival guide to learn how to survive!
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Comment by jayjay mcg on June 4, 2009 at 8:03pm -
benjy my good man lol i think i heard that there were talks about making the walking dead comic into a tv series don't know if it's entirely true but that sure would be sweet eh lol
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Comment by Zambooxal the Booty man on June 3, 2009 at 10:55pm -
DEAD SET IS AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Comment by The GodDamn Fatman on June 3, 2009 at 1:40pm -
I've always loved zombie movies because they give that sort of, all the problems I used to have in my normal life don't mean shit anymore. While I love the fast zombies, the slow ones will always be scarier to me. Anyone who played the origional Resident Evil will tell you there isn't much creepier than hearing that moan and footsteeps somewhere off in the distance in the dark, but you don't know where.
And apparently slow zombies are more quiet than ninjas because they sneak up on people without being heard all the time. If real zombies existed we would have to look over our shoulder like every 5 secconds because thoes things seem to just pop up behind you out of nowhere and as we all know it just takes one bite...
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Comment by chambers of death on June 3, 2009 at 12:59pm -
my thing is, in zombie films you get a free pass to kill as many people as you want,but they always show how fucked up it would be when you have to kill someone you love so much.like your mom or dad,or little brother.got to say though for some reason i love these movies when they get them right.loved 28 days(weeks)
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Comment by MisterKeitel on June 2, 2009 at 1:10pm -
Here's another zombie like idea. I just got finished watching the origina zombie movie "White Zombie" with Bela Lagosi. In this movie the zombies are not flesh eating undead, but rather they are living people who have been secretly given a special drug that makes they sonombulistic sleepwalkers who are very open to suggestion (read: orders). This old wizard like guy on a tropical island has dozens of drugged out zombies work at his plantation/mill.
What if a guy in modern day America stumbled upon the secret of turning people into zombie slaves? This guy starts drugging all the people in his small town turning them into his sleepwalking slaves. Just think of it, it's kind of like life on the internet or people who spend way too much time playing World of Warcraft. They can be a king in their own version of hell, but none of it's really real.
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Comment by RickC on June 2, 2009 at 12:14pm -
If Zombies were real I would hope they would move slowly like in Shaun of the Dead (or the game Dead Rising) cuz then you could have fun kicking the ever-living shit out of them. The reason why I never enjoyed the original (read old) zombie movies is b/c the only way to create tension in those was via the bad decisions of the characters. The monsters were too slow to cause any real scare (at least in my mind...I mean you could just run right past them).
I love that 28 Days Later was at the top of your list...that movie was absolutely awesome. I've seen it almost a dozen times and it just keeps getting better.
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Comment by Elle Diablo on June 2, 2009 at 11:39am -
in the case of a real zombie apocolypse i prefer slower zombies (for what i would supose would be obvious reasons). in my movies i like faster zombies because they are scarier if they are smarter and faster (ie, rec/quarantine) but either way, anything that wants to eat me (and not in the sexual way ;] ) is something i want to stay far away from. Unless we're talking vampires (Not fucking twilight vampires, good old fashioned "kill humans" vampires)
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Comment by 31 on June 1, 2009 at 1:38am -
oh zombies, infected, who cares, same shit.
what about the Evil Dead trilogy? fan of those?
i never saw Rec. but Quarantine was pretty good
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Comment by MavenCree on May 31, 2009 at 10:49pm -
28 Days later - not zombies. Infected. Love that movie. The message I got out of it was that humans were the *real* monsters. I mean, they pulled a Hitchcock on me and had me rooting for the infected in the end to get the bad humans....
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Comment by legend26 on May 30, 2009 at 7:55pm -
i prefer clasic slow zombies becouse
fast zombies = quick cheep thrill
slow shambler = impending sense of dread and doom
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