NEWS: More Zombies! Dia de los Muertos Newsflash

damn, you americans are warped. i prefer the english light hearted approach. shaun of the dead anyone. cup of tea and some cucumber sandwiches perhaps?

Kick Ass! It's going to be a zombiethon when I meet just about all the key actors (yeah I just had to exclaim it!) involved in the Dead films at TX Frightmare Weekend! I still haven't seen Diary, but I've got to say that Land really sucked. What a let-down. My faith in Mr. Romero is quite high, still.

Come now, you must admit 28 Days has to be one of the best Zombie movies ever! No slow moving, foot dragging twits in that one!

true. cillian murphy did do the irish proud on that one. though we did give the world the zombie comedy boy eats girl, a truly horrific movie.

"Fighting their way out of a mansion through a horde of ravenous zombies"

Sounds like Resident Evil. The game not the movie.

I wish, I didn't even do anything for Halloween this year... No silly wig, no pumpkin pie, not even a piece of candy... It just kind of snuck up and passed by this year unnoticed. Anyhow, it seemed really subdued this year, but that may be because of the fires here in Cali. There's been a sort of psychic fog in the aftermath of the "Firestorm 2007". God, I head the TV Media for sensationalizing disasters and wars with headlines like that... -sigh-

And I really like Halloween too. Yeah, everyday. I'm with you.

I'm buying a pumpkin today and I'm going to carve it. I'll be wearing bicycle shorts and a jersey, so I guess I'll be wearing a silly costume too. Now how the hell am I going to carry the pumpkin riding a bike???

MMmmmm, braaaains

Am I the only one here who thought Land of the Dead sucked balls and was full of all kinds of zombie sacrilege? From a zombie who can think, to empathizing with the zombies, to the "heroes" allowing the zombies to live... fucked up movie.

Damn, this is exciting news!

Just like the gentleman above me here, I was more than a bit underwhelmed with Land of the Dead, but being a huge fan of Mr. Romero, never gave up hope.

This past sumer, I was lucky enough to catch a screening of Diary of the Dead, and let me tell you it was easily right up there with any of his films!
Between the characters you actually care about & the heavy socio-politial overtones, Diary was fantastic from begining to end.

The best part was it was self financed & shot in Canada.
Bring on the sequel!

First, I saw Land Of The Dead in a theater on opening weekend, and dragged along my wife, who loathes horror movies but is a major politics junkie, and she spend the evening raving about how the movie was a zombified retelling of The Communist Manifesto.

Even if you don't take it as an allegory, Land Of The Dead is movie that was predestined to disappoint just about everyone. The people that disliked the "zombies learning to think" concept advanced in Day Of The Dead had even more thinkin' zombie action to hate in Land, the people who thought the budget-inspired claustrophobia and talk-to-action ratio of Day Of The Dead was a stroke of horror genius were surprised that given his big budget druthers that Romero made an action-oriented movie that seemed like a John Carpenter movie, and people expecting a Resident Evil-style action movie had to deal with the political overtones, the sympathetic zombies, and the "they're just looking for a place to go" ending.

I enjoyed it, although it's flawed in pretty much the exact opposite ways that Day Of The Dead was flawed. But since I lack a time machine that would allow me to go back and give Romero enough money to film his original script for Day, it's the best I could hope for.

Sorry, feeling all pretentious at the moment. Mmmm...Venusian space probe radiation is tingly.

I concur. "No...let them go...they just want a place of their own."
Yeah! to EAT more people!!
Also, it really lacked an acual climax.

As far as I can remember, none of the featured "smart zombies" are ever shown eating people, implying that it's possible for the reanimated dead to learn to control that instinct. The fact that Big Daddy and the other "smart zombies" are shown walking away from the city at the end of the movie rather than joining in on the zombie feast reiterates that point.

Again, my apologies for getting way to pretentious about low-budget horror movies.

Thanks for the 411, Flux. Me and my equally zombie-enthusing cousin hadn't heard about the sequel being green-lighted.

I love that man's movies.

With the exception of Land of the Dead (which I didn't find horrible btw), there's a mood, a certain je ne sais quoi, that runs across Romero's celluloid that I haven't experienced with many other directors.

Even though the zombie themes often lend themselves to the light and comic side of horror, there's something about his films that remains very haunting and desolate nonetheless. It's like he's able to capture the empty spaces of the zombie apocalypse really well without showing us a single brain-muncher. I love that feeling.

Anyway, count me in for the upcoming talkies.

For me, there is no such thing as a bad Zombie movie. I love 'em. Check out STINK OF FLESH sometime. Tagline says "How do you live an alternative lifestyle in a world of the undead?"

You know what would have been a great use of that premise?

A group of film students doing a documentary on the Evil Dead movies accidentally find a copy of the "real" Necronomicon and accidentally use it to summon horrors from beyond time/space/death/etc. Call it Diary of the Evil Dead and make a million damn dollars off it.

COPYRIGHT ME. PAY ME, SAM RAIMI.

I agree, it was just an extension of all the "Bub learns to use a gun and listen to music" stuff from Day. Which I also loved.

It sorta makes sense that if the zombie affliction breaks you down and decays you, at rock bottom or wherever it stops, you'd then be able to relearn things and start moving back up.

This new one looks great, though. It's supposedly non-canon and I'm glad... just in case.

WTF for blank posts. I think what I meant to say was...

I have to agree with that. As much as I love the Cillian, 28 Weeks had more action while still keeping the political subtext (...crucial to any zombie movie).

Although Shaun of the Dead still has to be the best zombie flick. Its not even debatable.

It's a struggle to see how intentionally derivative homage could be the "best" of any genre.

What if I were to say that "Hot Fuzz" was the best buddy cop flick and it wasn't even debatable?

OH SHI--

I can't not see this movie.

Zombies > all

The only reason why I still use Facebook is because of the Zombie application. I was turned by Tea.