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NEW!Dance of the Dead - posted 10.18.08"The zombie comedy is a difficult niche-film to make if you intend to please your audience. With benchmarks like Return of the Living Dead and Shaun of the Dead as the zombie comedy torch-bearers, most other ‘zomedies’ are heavily scrutinized by genre purists. Gregg Bishop and Joe Ballarini have managed to craft a very fun teen comedy zombie film that captures the essence of 80’s horror films and pays tribute to those aforementioned films." Click here to read the full review |
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NEW!Reel Zombies - posted 10.15.08“Reel Zombies from Mike Masters and David J. Francis of Primal Films in Ontario, Canada is honestly one of my favorite films of the year and provides an explosive dose of hilarity to the zombie subgenre. Having been commercially unsuccessful with their previous films Zombie Night I and II, Mike Masters has a vision of crafting his epic zombie masterpiece. The thing is…after an actual zombie outbreak, the team has some adversity and a whole heap of stupidity to overcome to pull off the production.” Click here to read the full review |
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NEW!Colin - posted 10.13.08‘One of the most inventive of recent indie zombie films, Colin comes to us from UK director Marc Price and Nowhere Fast Productions. Colin is the name and tale of our main character who we are briefly introduced to in human form but that is soon shed as he becomes infected and becomes one of the undead. The most ingenious aspect of the film is that from then on, the story is told from Colin’s perspective as one of the undead.’ Click here to read the full review |
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NEW!Day of the Dead - posted 10.13.08“Now, I was thinking of just doing a 1-line review for this movie, along the lines of "Day of the Dead - easily the best Romero Zombie film", but it appears that (as is often the case), people don't seem to agree with me despite the fact that I am always right. So apparently I will have to justify this claim. Now, all of his zombie movies are pretty spot-on (yes, even Land of the Dead, while not a patch on the others is still far superior to most other zombie films), and I am sure most people would more-or-less agree. Where I am in the minority is in my knowledge that with Day, George got everything pretty much spot-on.” Click here to read the full review |
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NEW!The Stink of Flesh - posted 9.25.08Like most people I have often wondered what happens when a Zombie
needs to use the lav, and finally I have found a film than answers
this puzzler. Apparently they just crap on the grass and leave it
there. Honestly, they don't even have the decency to clean up after
themselves! No wonder they've got a bad reputation." Click here to read the full review |
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NEW!The Ghost Galleon - posted 9.12.08"When even the box of a film says it is considered a 'surprising' film warning bells should really start to sound. Whereas the first 2 Blind Dead films take place around atmospheric ruined medieval cities this particular entry involves an obviously fake miniature galleon ship, which I assume we are supposed to believe is a full size vessel." Click here to read the full review |
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NEW!28 Weeks Later - posted 9.08.08"One of the classic discussions regarding the 28 days\weeks films is of their legitimacy as Zombie films. There are numerous pseudo-zombie flicks that I love but would not include in this Blog as they don't meet the criteria. Cronenbergs 'Shivers' & 'Rabid' or the recent 'I Am Legend' are such examples, and don't get me started on The Evil Dead series. (Why people think of these as Zombie films is beyond me. They're people possessed by evil demonic spirits, Sheesh!). With 28 days\weeks later the decision is tougher. Yes, they're still officially alive and yes, they run and don't shamble. Also, they apparently die of malnutrition which I don't recall happening in any other zombie flick." Click here to read the full review |
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Versus - posted 8.30.08"I love my Asian zombie films. Junk and Bio-zombie were reasonably decent if rather cliched, while Wild Zero and Stacy were full on classics. Then there is Versus - a Zombie film I’ve had on my shelf for some time now waiting for an appropriate time-slot for viewing." Click here to read the full review |
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Zombie Strippers - posted 8.19.08"Themes of morality, conformity, alienation, existentialism and political satire are just what I would expect to feature in a film called 'Zombie Strippers'. Ha ha, Who am I kidding! Strippers turning into zombies is all I was looking for in this beauty, but there was plenty more than that on offer in this wee number, philosophy and all."
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Redneck Zombies - posted 8.19.08"To even remotely enjoy this movie you have to appreciate the glory that is Troma : independent cinema of the highest quality. Weighing in at about 0\10 on the acting, script, directing and intellect scale, Redneck Zombies isn't even the slightest bit bothered about aiming for the mainstream, and all the better for it."
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Dead Men Walking - posted 7.31.08""Dead Men Walking is a particularly gruesome little
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Zombies Anonymous - posted 7.26.08"With "Zombies Anonymous," writer/director Marc
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Sullen - posted 7.20.08""Sullen" is the debut feature film from Washington filmmaker Adam Huddleston. It's got a number of the flaws we're used to seeing in zombie movies shot on shoe-string budgets by beginning filmmakers, but it's got two things going for it that lifts it above many of the films of this type: It's got a great script and a very talented star." Click here to read the full review |
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Undead- posted 7.16.08"In simple terms, Undead is a Zombie, Meteor, Alien gore-fest. It features a Triple-Barrel-shotgun toting Clint Eastwood (or Evil Dead's Ash, depending on how you look at him) who is briefly abducted after becoming involved in a Zombie-Fish fist-fight. In order to save the world from future invasions when he is returned to his boat by the spaceship he stocks up on guns, builds a massive underground bomb shelter in his cellar and waits for the next alien attack. " Click here to read the full review |
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The Last Man On Earth - posted 7.15.08"Not often does a book come around that causes a stir like Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend. Not only has it spawned three movies, its influence has forever given the world a doorway into the undead. With the first and best adaptation, the 1964 Vincent Price classic The Last Man on Earth, the modern zombie tale took root. Every film, every story, has a way of giving life, and the staying power of this tale appears ready to span generations. " Click here to read the full review |
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Cemetery Man - posted 7.14.08"I first saw Michele Soavi’s Italian zombie epic Dellamorte Dellamore otherwise known as Cemetery man in 1997. I was amazed at how interesting and in depth it is. It is so much more than just a typical zombie romp. It has elements of many different genres and at times you wonder where the zombies are. Soavi leads you one way ultimately leaving you to draw some conclusions yourself. A film so poetic and romantic, it is a great escape from a typical ‘horror’ film. " Click here to read the full review |
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Quick & the Undead - posted 7.10.08Set around 80 years in the future after a virus has turned most of the world into shuffling Zombies, The Quick and the Undead follows a bounty hunter who makes a living hunting down and killing off any Zombie throughout the country and collecting their fingers as evidence to claim his reward. However, he's soon double crossed by his old gang and left for dead, his haul of fingers stolen. Luckily being invincible he comes back from the dead and heads off after his old gang to reclaim his bounty. Click here to read the full review |
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Wild Zero - posted 7.04.08Man alive, this film has everything. Exploding Heads, Lazer eye Beams, UFOs, Zombies, Electic Shock Plectrums, Men in Hotpants, Mute Transexuals, Undead Romance and of course Guitar Wolf: The self proclaimed coolest band in the world, and any band who self proclaims such a thing must be pretty rock and roll. Click here to read the full review |
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Return of the Living Dead V: Rave to the Grave - posted 6.30.08I sat down with absolutely no expectations for this film beyond
'well, there is no way it can be worse that ROTLD4. Can it?' I absolutely
hated ROTLD4 : Necropolis, and may well have to position it on the
podium of worst zombie films ever made. However, I must admit that
having sat through this latest instalment I am totally confused
as to my opinion on it. The gore is rather awesome, there are loads
of quality nork shots all throughout the film and the storyline
is genuinely original. Considering these are the criteria I judge
zombie films by it should be the greatest one I own. Click here to read the full review |
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Nightmare City - posted 6.11.08Nightmare City! A brilliant example of what makes 70's Italian
Zombie films so appealing. A winning combination of gore, makeup,
dubbing, direction, story and script all from the very bottom drawer
of the movie technique cupboard, with a shed-load of gratuitous
nork shots thrown in for good measure. To really up the ante, add
on a truly extraordinary cop-out ending that just beggars belief
to produce a grindhouse trashfest of the highest order. Click here to read the full review |
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[REC] - posted 5.28.08REC is a little Spanish zombie movie set almost completely inside an apartment building stairway. A cute little Spanish television presenter and cameraman turn up at around midnight following some Firemen who have been called in. They are investigating some mental old woman who has been growling and stomping around in her apartment freaking out the neighbours. Old people are pretty scary at the best of times, but unfortunately this old woman isn't just your regular sort of crazy lady, but a chubby rabies infested zombie with a fair amount of pace on her, as we find out when she starts chasing and chewing up the helpful firemen. click here to read the full review! |  |
The Dead Next Door - posted 5.22.08Starting a movie with a bunch of Zombies trying to rent Dawn Of The Dead in a video store is slightly concerning, giving the impression that this would stray too far into the parody domain that so many more recent films have fallen and of which I am not a huge fan. Thankfully this turns out to be one of the better self deprecating films in the zombie canon. Click here to read the full review |  |
Return of the Evil Dead - posted 5.7.08Although this is the 2nd in the series it is as much of a sequel to 'Tombs..' as Evil Dead 2 is to it's predecessor. i.e. not a sequel at all, but more version 1.5. - Take the 'zombies' from the 1st film, keep the setting more-or-less the same but totally ignore everything that happened in the original and just redo everything from scratch using old footage from version 1 where appropriate. Click here to read the full review |  |
The Dead Pit - posted 5.1.08The Dead Pit doesn't really start off particularly impressively, or with much originality. A crazed doctor in a mental hospital is murdering patients and performing bizarre brain experiments on them in the hospital basement. What he's trying to achieve isn't fully explained, except that 'The Brain is a Parasite' and is a barrier to freeing the mind, apparently. Ah, so filling dead peoples heads with formaldehyde and dumping the bodies in a pit is the way to go then. Click here to read the full review |
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The Video Dead- posted 4.22.08The Video Dead is a relatively obscure little film nowadays, and one that I still don't think has had a full DVD release. This is a pity as it's considerably better than many zombie films that followed it. Well, that is assuming that decent scripting, acting, editing and direction are not required as a measure of quality. What is of class here though is the story, which is thoroughly enjoyable and pretty original by zombie standards, although still utter nonsense. Click here to read the full review | |
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Planet Terror - posted 4.16.08Planet Terror is pretty much the type of movie I would make if
I were a reasonably famous Hollywood director with free reign to
film whatever I choose. Take a bare bones nonsense zombie plot,
borrow several well known actors, chuck in liberal and stupendously
O.T.T. CGI special effects, not to mention various lovely ladies
and you've more-or-less got the ideal film for lovers of pure cinematic
guff. There are no morals to this story, no dippy romances, no character
development, just a bunch of ridiculous people and some chemically
poisoned zombies shooting the bejeezus out of each other. What more
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Night of the Living Dorks - posted 4.08.08The 'Horror Comedy' genre is not a particular favourite of mine,
I suspect because I find plenty of comedy in the terrible over-the-top
blood & gore special effects that are present in the majority
of genuine horror films from my collection. Heck, I even laughed
at the head explosions of the Burmese villagers in the latest Rambo
film, (and was the only person in the whole cinema to do so I might
add). I think my sense of humour is being warped due to the deluge
of guts and gore images that I pour into it on a near daily basis. click here to read the full review | |
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'2' - posted 2.23.08‘2’ is the story of David and Sarah, two survivors of an epidemic that turns people into flesh-crazed ghouls. Before I go any further, I have to say that ‘2’ is most definitely one of the best indie zombie films I have seen in a long time. David awakes to find himself in what appears to be a car accident.
When he comes to, he scrambles out of the car and into a somewhat
serene setting. As he explores, David encounters a horde of infected
ghouls. As he flees, he hears the screams of Sarah who he helps
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Diary of the Dead - posted 2.18.08In his first independently financed film since he gave birth to the modern zombie film 40 years ago with Night of the Living Dead, George Romero returns to put an even more modern spin on the zombie movie genre. In the opening sequence of the film, we see a news lady reporting in front of an apartment complex where a man has just murdered his family and then himself. As the news lady reports, the bodies rise from their gurney’s and attack paramedics and police. The infection has begun. We then see a montage of clips from various sources as this video hits various media and trickles down the technological grapevine. click here to read the full review | |
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The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (Blue Underground 2-disc Special Edition)- posted 2.5.08The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue is a classic film of the zombie subgenre. A beautifully shot film depicting zombies roaming the English countryside, it is not only brilliant visually but as most zombie films out of this time period do, it had a lot to convey socially as well. click here to read the full review |  |
White Zombie - posted 2.5.08"White Zombie is one of the great unheralded horror classics of the 1930's and unfortunately, it is almost forgotten today, overrun by the modern flesh eating creatures that cloud the true history of zombie lore. In fact, White Zombie may be the first and oldest surviving zombie movie ever made. Unlike the modern movies of the genre that we grew up on, or can see today, these traditional zombie characters are not evil in themselves craving brains and devouring everything in their path. Instead, they are mindless wanderers, controlled by an evil shaman, who must be destroyed to save the zombies from their helpless slumber." click here to read the full review |
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Colonel Kill Motherfuckers- posted 2.5.08"Colonel Kill Motherfuckers, is the story of Jack Scabtree, a psychotic Army Colonel veteran who is discharged from the Army only to be accidentally killed by a giant lollipop. The colonel’s evil mother uses her powers of witchcraft to resurrect her son and bring him back from the dead so he can kill those motherfuckers that killed him!" click here to read the full review | |
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American Zombie - posted 1.30.08""American Zombie is the brainchild of acclaimed documentary film maker Grace Lee whose 2005 documentary The Grace Lee Project was well received. The Grace Lee project chronicled Grace Lee’s quest to contact women all across the country with the same name as her in an effort to bring to light societal prejudices towards Asian American women. American Zombie is quite a departure from her previous works and finds Lee teamed with John Solomon, who both play themselves in the film to document the lives of an undead community in Los Angeles. The two quickly find that a virus, brought on by a violent death, is turning members of the community into zombies." click here to read the full review | |
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Days Of Darkness - posted 1.27.08"While not a complete failure of a film, Jake Kennedy’s
Days of Darkness suffers on multiple key elements. The beginning
of the movie seems quite rushed as we see a comet barreling towards
Earth which we later learn spreads an infectious, parasitic alien
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Boy Eats Girl - posted 1.27.08"Boy Eats Girl comes to us from Ireland which seems to be having a zombie outbreak (of films) of their own over the past few years. Boy Eats girl is a teeny-zombie film that borrows from films like Night of the Living Dorks and Shaun of the Dead. It does however have some of its own entertaining moments." click here to read the full review Click here to read Jon Walmsley's review |
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Zombiemania Documentary - posted 1.27.08"Director Donna Davies and Producer Kimberlee McTaggart of Sorcery Films have created the documentary ‘Zombiemania’, a splendid romp through the sordid history of the dead. A Canadian produced made for TV documentary, Zombiemania originally aired on the Space Channel. One of the most well-done documentaries of its kind, Zombiemania features commentary from some of the subgenres finest professional and celebrity experts on the undead." click here to read the full review |
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City Of The Living Dead - posted 1.7.08"When Lucio Fulci decided to follow up his 1979 classic Zombie Flesh Eaters, with the 1980 release of City of the Living Dead, little did people realize that the Italian horror master would lead them on an unparalleled masterpiece of violent imagery, atmosphere and climate. Complete with some tremendous visual effects, Fulci definitely transports the viewer into a dark realm of the undead. While the movie does lack some story, the medical, religious and occult overtones add to the landscape of the film. Not to mention the strange and creepy looking zombies that the crew developed for this film. " Click here to read the full review |
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Sabbath - posted 10/20/07"Completed in 2005, but slated for release by Brain Damage
Films in 2008, Click here to read the full review |
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Revolt of the Zombies - posted 10/20/07"Revolt of the Zombies" shows that lightning rarely strikes
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The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue- posted 5/3/07"This 1974 Spanish/Italian production predates both Dawn and Day of the Dead (being released in 1978 and 1985 respectively) and can almost be seen as a re-imagining (or, if you’re less diplomatically minded, a rip off) of Night of the Living Dead set in rural England."
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Awaken the Dead - posted 11/14/06“Awaken the Dead” is the debut directorial effort from
screenwriter Jeffery McMichael Brookshire. The movie tells the story
of two total strangers directed to a fortified safe house through
a serious of mysterious letters, purportedly written by a mutual
acquaintance; a shadowy government operative named Jeremiah (Michael
Robert Nyman). Click here to read the full review |
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To Kako "EVIL" - posted 12/7/06 Upon first hearing of this film what instantly grabbed my attention was the notion of Greek zombies. For a region not at all known for it's output of horror films, I had to delve deeper and give it a look. Boy was I surprised by what I saw. Director Yorgos Nousias along with collaborators Petros Noussias and Claudio Bolivar took the bold leap of crafting what is being called Greece's first serious attempt at a horror genre film. The action-packed,energetic, gore-filled film has been making the rounds at various festivals and has been well received. The biggest highlight of the film's festival circuit being it's inclusion into the "Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now!" section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Click here to read the full review |
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Archived Reviews
28 Days Later Danny Boyle’s 2002 directorial follow up to Leonardo DiCaprio
vehicle The Beach (not a patch on the book, apparently) took many
people by surprise. Shot entirely on DV, 28 Days Later deals with
a pandemic outbreak triggered when a group of Animal Rights activists
free a number of infected chimpanzees from a London laboratory.
Twenty-eight days later, Jim (a bicycle courier played by Cillian
Murphy) wakes from a coma only to find, first the hospital and then
the city seemingly deserted. After some brief exploration accompanied
by some truly eerie shots of the forsaken capital, Jim wanders into
a church and comes face to face with some of the “infected”. Click here to read the full review |
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Brain Dead (Dead Alive)In the early nineties Peter Jackson certainly wasn’t the family friendly, household name he is nowadays. Having directed and produced cult classics Bad Taste (in which he also played two of the leading characters, built many of the costumes and props from scratch, and oversaw the special effects) and Meet The Feebles (a kind of grimly realistic Muppet Show on crack) Jackson decided to turn his more than ample talents towards the zombie genre. The result was 1992’s Braindead (released as Dead Alive in the US) which, for my money, is still the ultimate laugh out loud gorefest. Click here to read the full review |
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Dawn of the Dead (2004) Dawn of the Dead 2004 is a great film by novice feature director Zack Snyder that combines the gore and horror elements of typical zombie movies with diverse characters and intense action. A great cast and aggressive zombies bind together to create a thrilling fast-paced experience that is sure to satisfy.
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The Evil Dead Trilogy ( I, II and Army of Darkness)In the spring of 1979 three young filmmakers, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, made a short super-eight horror movie called Within The Woods. The film cost $1,600 to make and was shot over six days on the Tapert family’s farm in Michigan. Within The Woods was made as a show reel, designed to pique the interest of potential investors for the trio’s planned “big budget” movie The Book Of The Dead. Three years later, Raimi, Campbell and Tapert’s first “real” film was in the can. They had formed a company called Renaissance Pictures and were looking for someone (anyone) to distribute the movie. Everybody they showed the film to absolutely hated it. Everybody that is, except for the legendary Irvin Shapiro. He didn’t like the title though, explaining that he felt that any literary reference might prove off putting to some of the film’s target audience. Shapiro suggested a different title: The Evil Dead. Click here to read the full review |
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Shaun of the DeadWhen fans of Channel Four’s Spaced first heard that series director Edgar Wright and co writer Simon Pegg were working on a zombie film together, expectations were naturally high. However, no one (Pegg and co included) could have anticipated the world wide success of Shaun Of The Dead; the self proclaimed first rom-zom-com. click here to read the full review
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