This is not to argue that George Romero's 1978 picture, which was remade by Zack Snyder in 2004, lacks style. The first 12 minutes set the tone for the rest of his career, with one of the finest opening title sequences in genre history. This opening is a fantastic kinetic counterpoint to Danny Boyle's "28 Days Later," which "Dawn of the Dead" is sometimes likened to because of the presence of so-called "fast" zombies.
The best part of "Dawn of the Dead" is the first few minutes. The rest of the movie never quite lives up to them, but future "Guardians of the Galaxy" director James Gunn's writing keeps things interesting. But by avoiding Romero's social criticism and putting his own spin on the zombie genre, Snyder was able to avoid the tragedy that was sure to follow his take on Alan Moore's work and the DC world as a whole.
With "Army of the Dead" on Netflix in 2021, he plans to return to this corner.
Set in a post-apocalyptic Zombie apocalypse brought on by the enigmatic street narcotic "Natas." We follow one guy as he hunts down Flesh Eaters for fun and atonement while simultaneously trying to escape his past.
After running upon a small band of survivors who were running low on supplies, he decided to pitch in and assist. The Flesh Eaters, however, have launched an unexpected onslaught, and the Hunter's skills have been put to the test.
The trailer for Zombie Hunter seems to be the kind of gruesome B-movie fun that everyone would enjoy. We're interested to see how filmmaker K. King manages to pay respect to the grindhouse aesthetic of films like Machete and Planet Terror. The marketing team did an outstanding job with the eye-catching poster.
Little Monsters is an unexpected movie from Lupita Nyong'o, who is best known for her dramatic roles. But it looks like she's having a lot of fun as a kindergarten teacher whose class is on a field trip when a zombie outbreak happens. The 2019 movie was the actress's second horror movie, but it wasn't as well known as Jordan Peele's "Us," which came out the same year.
But she can do it without any problems at all. The film is "dedicated to all of the kindergarten teachers who encourage children to study, fill them with confidence, and rescue them from being devoured by zombies," as stated in the official press notes. Yes, I think that covers every base. In "Little Monsters," Alexander England portrays an effete, has-been musician who is accompanying his nephew on a field trip and who happens to be in love (or maybe lust) with Lupita Nyong'o, while Josh Gad plays an obnoxious, renowned kid performer. Nyong'o appears alongside both of these characters. The year 2014 saw the publication of "Little Monsters."The result is an intriguing combination of horror and romantic comedy that breathes fresh life into both genres.
Since then, zombies have showed no signs of abating. (Some have even learned how to run.) The Walking Dead is an easy giant to point to, but zombies have also appeared in discovered footage ([REC]), rom-coms (Warm Bodies), and grindhouse throwbacks (Planet Terror).
Simultaneously, a global subgenre sprung developed in response to Romero's works.
Lucio Fulci took the notion and ran with it, first in Zombi 2 and later in his weird "Gates of Hell" trilogy.
Dan O'Bannon, Fred Dekker, and Stuart Gordon explored and expanded what a zombie movie might be after Romero. The zombie craze rapidly faded.
Outside of recurring horror sequels (Return of the Living Dead, Zombie), low-budget fright pictures, and the rare genre oddity (My Boyfriend's Back, Cemetery Man, and Dead Alive), the undead were no longer walking the earth.Is there any other place to start? The Hollywood notion of Haitian voodoo zombies was initially popularized in White Zombie, decades before the classic George Romero ghoul.
White Zombie is easily accessible now due to the fact that it is in the public domain and is included in almost every low-cost collection of zombie films ever put together. If you like, you may watch the whole 67-minute length of the film on YouTube. As a witch doctor, Bela Lugosi, who was only a year removed from his role as Dracula and basking in his celebrity as one of Universal's go-to horror performers, plays a character whose name is literally "Murder." This is due to the fact that the studio was still a few years away at this point from discovering the art of subtlety.
Lugosi, who looks like Svengali, uses his different potions and powders to turn a young woman who is about to get married into a zombie so that she will do what a cruel plantation owner wants her to do, and... well, it's pretty dry and wooden stuff. Lugosi is, as you might expect, the best part, but I guess you had to start somewhere. After White Zombie, a number of other voodoo zombie movies came out of Hollywood. Most of these movies are now free to watch online.
Obviously, the film also influenced Rob Zombie's musical work. It appears prominently on several "greatest zombie film" lists, but let's be honest: this is not a film that most viewers would enjoy seeing today 2016. It is ranked 50th mostly due to its historical importance.
Planet Terror is the better half of Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double-bill with Quentin Tarantino, telling the tale of a go-go dancer, a botched bioweapon, and Texan townspeople transformed into shuffling, pustulous creatures. Planet Terror has its exploding tongue firmly entrenched in its rotten cheek, leaning heavily towards its B-movie heritage with missing reels, rough editing, and hammy overdubbed dialogue.
In the end, the severed arm of Rose page McGowan's character Cherry Darling is replaced with a machine gun in a ridiculously entertaining climax with lots of blood and oozing effects. Gather around, people, because I want to use your brains to grow mine.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead seems to have some of the typical elements of a Troma film. It'll be a whole pile of garbage. It'll get quite bloody. There will be no limits or consideration for aesthetics. Just as with every other Troma picture, the true question is whether or not you find it dull. In this case, "definitely not" is the appropriate response.
In its social satire of consumer society, this "zom-com musical" is even a little bit clever—you know, in an obvious kind of way. But is that really why you're seeing a movie about zombie chickens at a KFC-style restaurant constructed on an old Native American burial ground? I did not believe so. To enjoy a Troma film, one must embrace the violence, scatological comedy, and cheap production qualities, as well as appreciate thoughtless narrative.
This is why the running time of the disgusting, gory, raunchy Poultrygeist is just 103 minutes.Despite the fact that zombie films have existed for more than 80 years (White Zombie was produced in 1932, and I Walked With a Zombie was published in 1943), the subgenre as we know it today did not emerge until 1968, when George A. Romero released Night of the Living Dead.
Night, a low-budget independent film, attracted audiences with its unnerving plot, horrible violence, progressive casting, social critique, and, of course, its legendary hordes of gaunt, voracious zombies. Romero, the acknowledged maestro of the zombie genre, made five more Dead flicks, the best of which are evaluated here.
After Night of the Living Dead had time to percolate and gather clout in the public's mind, a slew of influential American zombie films emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Even if Night of the Living Dead had a major impact on popular culture, this is the case. Shock Waves is sometimes cited as the first example of the subgenre of films known as "Nazi zombie flicks." This was before Dawn of the Dead significantly increased the popularity of zombies as horror villains. Before the release of Dawn of the Dead, this was available.
It follows a party of lost boaters who wind themselves on a remote island where a submerged SS submarine has abandoned its crew of zombies, a Nazi experiment, and it's honestly a gloomy, slow-paced picture for the most of its time. In the same year that he was sneering at Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Hammer Horror great Peter Cushing appears as a poorly miscast and addled-looking SS Commander. It's hard to believe, yet A New Hope exists!
There have been at least 16 Nazi zombie movies since this point—certainly more than one may realize—making this one noteworthy, if only for combining the portmanteau of great cinematic villains first.
In the end, movies like the Dead Snow series owe everything to Shock Waves.It takes a lot to develop a really original zombie picture, but Colm McCarthy's adaptation of Mike Carey's book The Girl With All The Gifts is a brilliant and insightful remake that also delivers genre thrills.
This zombie pandemic is the result of a fungal virus, similar to the one that wiped out humans in The Last of Us. Melanie, a little child, is educated in an unusual fashion by Gemma Arterton's character, Helen, in a very guarded facility.
Melanie is a'second-generation' hungry; she desires human flesh but also has the ability to think and feel, and her sheer existence may hold the key to survival.
This gore-fest incorporates the Draugr, a mythical undead creature from Scandinavian folklore renowned for its savage commitment to guarding its gold hoard. In Dead Snow, these draugr are really former SS soldiers who terrorized a Norwegian village and robbed its inhabitants before being slain or driven into the cold mountains.
I have to give Dead Snow credit for inventiveness here. It has aspects of Evil Dead and "teen sex/slasher" movies, and it's hilarious, bloody, and satisfyingly brutal. In addition, Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead is the sequel, so fans can expect even more of the same.
Sometimes a movie's backstory is more interesting than the movie itself, and that's the case with The Dead Next Door. Sam Raimi paid for it with the money he made from Evil Dead II so that his friend J. R. Bookwalter could make his dream of making a low-budget zombie epic come true. The whole movie seems to have been redubbed after it was made, and Raimi is listed as an executive producer under the name "The Master Cylinder," while Evil Dead's Bruce Campbell voices not one but two characters. This gives The Dead Next Door a dreamlike, surreal feel, and that's before we even talk about the fact that it was all shot on Super 8 and not 32 mm film.
The Dead Next Door is a genre-first. A low-budget zombie action-drama with amateur acting and surprise professionalism.
An "elite squad" of zombie exterminators discover a cult dedicated to the worship of the undead, but you aren't watching this one for the narrative, you're watching it for the gore. Made for no other reason than to test out gore effects and realistic decapitations, The Dead Next Door sometimes resembles a low-budget effort to recreate Peter Jackson's psychotic bloodletting in Dead Alive, except with jokes so obvious that they're scary. To paraphrase: "Who is this Dr. Savini guy anyway?" Can I call you "Officer Raimi"? Commander Carpenter?They're all in a zombie picture that seems like it was made for the director's family. Shoddy closeness has a weird appeal.
The rise of zombie movies into popularity is amazing to see. For a long time, the monsters existed mostly in the realms of Voodoo mythology, radioactive humanoids, and the iconic imagery of E.C. comics. When they existed, zombies were not the cannibalistic, flesh-hungry undead we've come to know and love.
Cemetery Man (also known as Dellamorte Dellamore) is a weird, hallucinogenic journey directed by Dario Argento's student Michele Soavi, who presents the undead as more of an inconvenience than a dangerous threat. In Cemetery Man, a cinematic version of the comic book series Dylan Dog, Everett portrays Francesco Dellamorte, a misanthropic gravedigger who would rather be among the dead than with living people. Why wouldn't he, you could ask? Living people are jerks for propagating the lie that he is infertile.
But there is a catch: the deceased won't remain buried in his cemetery. Dellamorte falls in love with a beautiful widow (Falchi) he meets at her husband's funeral. After courting her in the gloomy hallways of his ossuary, they end up steaming it up on her husband's grave. It gets stranger from here on out.