October 31, 2005
Nota bene
By Jim Dallas
I hate zombie movies. I hate zombie movies because every reasonable person, whether fans of the genre or not, knows that the only thing you can do with a person whose been bit and is in the progress of zombifying is to shoot them in the head and destroy the brain. Really, why are we supposed to have any sympathy for a protagonist who doesn't understand this simple fact? That is all.
Posted by Jim Dallas at October 31, 2005 07:47 PM
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Shaun of the Dead? I watched that yesterday...
I think real lovers of zombie movers might argue that there are no protagonists. Humans -- because they are incapable of confronting the mindless, faceless, senseless monotony that exists before them -- are hardly the heroes in most zombie tales. They run to the mall, where they think all their packaged materialism can protect them, only to find that zombies -- and all their symbolical glory -- will never stop coming for them.
Zombie movies are awesome. Constantine, however, was not (which was our Halloween choice of the night -- only because some in our group wouldn't watch Dead Harvest 2: The Maize).
Happy Halloween, everyone!
Short of the Rob Zombie movies (I missed the Devil's Rejects, but really dug on House of 1000 Corpses) there hasn't been a good horror movie made in roughly 20 years. As a longtime conossieur of the genre, it makes me mad to think that people would call "The Ring" or other such crap a horror film.
I didn't watch anything last night, but my reccomendations would be along the lines of the first two Evil Deads, the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist or (but of course) Halloween.
While not a great movie, the German film "Night of the Living Dorks" (which screened at the Austin Fantastic Fest) actually has a method for reversing zombification, and it deals with the day-to-day problems of the recently dead in a humorous way.
