Zombie Movies

[Dirty Commie]

Has any seen the Romero trilogy?

Night of the living Dead
Dawn of the dead
Day of the dead

great movies, any movie geek (me) should watch these.

[truthaddict11]

best horror movies ever&#33; i just finished watching NOTLD again, too bad hollywood doesnt realize these are classics and are making "remakes". <_<
George Romero is a genuis.

[Purple]

I&#39;m Norways must be Norways biggest zombie movie fan.. I&#39;ve watched The Night of The Living Dead, and it was great... Very funky when that girl shoot that zombie in half with that elephant rifle...(i think that was in TNOTLD...)

[truthaddict11]

i dont recall a scene in the 1968 original perhaps it was in the 1990 remake by Tom Savini

[Rastafari]

George Romero is a genuis.



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[truthaddict11]

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[Rob]

Yup, Romero movies are good shit. Speaking of semi-zombie movies anyone seen 28 Days Later?

[Purple]

Damn, I was just going to mention that movie when I was scrolling down this thread.. Weird..

Yeah, I saw it yesterday.. It&#39;s now definetly my favorite movie.. It was extreme. It was really cool how it was made with no "special" lighting, or any scene effects.. It looked real, and not too overdone.. I really like the fact that the first guy getting smashed in the head is a priest :D (cruel little me) :D &#33; That movie is really scary..

[ComradeRobertRiley]

Great movies Dirty Commie but you left out:

Evil Dead
Evil Dead 2
Evil Dead 3: Army Of Darkness

[truthaddict11]

28 Days Later was not a zombie movie, it was about a virus that makes people go into a killing rage. Zombies are the living dead not people turned mad by a virus. In NOTLD you became a zombie if you were recently deceased and werent immediatly cremated or if you were bitten by a zombie as that little girl was. The zombies became killing machines feeding on human flesh. Romero used animal organs from a local butchershop for those parts in the 1968 classic, still grosses me out today.

[UnionofSovietSocialistRepublics]

Dawn of the dead, definatley the best zombie movie ever&#33; :D
Night of living deads pretty sharp, cant say i&#39;m too keen on Day though.
Dawns great, i recommend any one to watch it, on DVD if u can-try and get the directors cut with Tom Savini commentary its amazing. I used to have a web site dedicated to DawnOTD a few years back, those were the days.

[Dirty Commie]

The worst zombie movie ever, either the remake of NOTLD (1990) or Resident Evil (but it&#39;s the only video game I play)

[truthaddict11]

a 3 disc release of Dawn should come out to coincide with the unauthorized unneeded remake

[UnionofSovietSocialistRepublics]

:o 3 discs, n e idea wots gonna b on em&#33;?

[Socialmalfunction]

has anyone seen michele sovi&#39;s (sp on both) dellamorte dellamore? or cemetary man in the us... my bf is a huge horror nerd and he showed me that movie. i saw it and it blew me away. it was such a bloody awesome movie. so if anyone else has seen it, what do you think of it? as for the night of the living dead movies i havent seen them yet, but knowing ronnie, i will soon.

[kitty]

hey does any body know in which part of the movie resident evil apocalypse, Ben Moody from evanescence appears in? I heard he&#39;s a zombie,but which one?
Please email me if you know

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Thanks

[Goatse]

You just signed up to bump a 2 year old thread?

[which doctor]

A lot of these people don&#39;t even post on this sight anymore.

The dead movies are awesome.

[bayano]

i still havent seen the dawn of the dead remake nor the land of the dead which is supposed to have even more class politics, but ive seen the original trilogy, the remake of the first one, and i also particularly like shaun of the dead.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Romero&#39;s zombie movies are fantastic (Day of the Dead is a bit flat and not that entertaining, but trying to socialize a zombie was a good addition to the series).

I thought Land of the Dead was fantastic and will become a cult classic in the years to come right up with Night and Dawn.

I would also recomend "Return of the Living Dead". The first one actually created the stereotypical zombie that walks around saying "Brains Brains Brains&#33;"

My favorite part is when the cops keep showing up at the morgue and get attacked by zombies and then one of the zombies picks up the police radio and says "send more cops please".

THere&#39;s little to no social commentary in "Return" and it wasn&#39;t done by Romero (possibly the reason for the lack of social commentary) but it&#39;s interesting how zombies parallel real social phenomena in different decades:

1. Night of the living Dead: social unrest of the 60s and the breakdown of the (racist) social order.

2. Day of the Dead: the characters are trapped in a mall - critique of being trapped in an increasingly commercialized and sanitized corporate world (the remake did not play with this much at all which is too bad since this trend has become more prevasive since the 70s. In the remake they could have been inside a werehouse, a mall just happens to be where they end up).

3. Land of the Dead: Zombies like in all the Romero films are like a natural disaster... as Katrina showed, the poor suffer the most in a natural disaster. "Land" was perhapse the most realistic film of the year as it presented a world where the rich get richer and the poor get left to be eaten by zombies.

4. "return of the living Dead" the gas that causes the zombies to come back to life is like radioactive waste that gets into the environment and destroys everything it touches and everything that people do to try and get rid of the toxin only makes it worse.

5. "28 Days Later": The "zombies" are caused by a virus made in a lab. This reflects the fears of bioweaponry and pandemics.

A few weeks ago I started a thread about how most of these movies also suggest that society would be better if the dead came back and modern society fell apart:

- the grandddady has this theme in it as well as the protagonist is a young black man who takes on a leadership role and actually survives only to be then killed by a mob of sherriffs who were hunting down the zombies. THe film asks: yeah a return to "order" but how good was that order to begin with.

- "28 days later" - the protagonist is a bike messenger in normal society, but becomes a fierce warrior after society falls apart.

- "Dawn" remake: the male protagonist is called a "looser" because he had a series of dead end retail jobs and a broken marrige. In the post-zombie world his merits make him assume a leadership role, despite his former social status.

- "Shaun of the Dead": it&#39;s a parody which also parody&#39;s this motief in zombie films. THe protagonist has a crap job and sees a zombie apocalypse as an oppertunity to "proove" his merits.

So I have given all this a lot of thought. And I think I have definativly shown why I was not able to get many dates in High school: "I think you&#39;re cool too&#33; Hey there&#39;s a midnight showing of "Evil Dead II" do you wanna go? Hey where are you going?"