Upcoming Outbreaks

Well it seems we can look forward to some new high profile zombie flicks in the not to distant future. As far as zombie movies go...you have a lot of independent and small time projects that are out every year, then you have your big budget zombie movies.

The remake of Dawn of the Dead was an awesome movie, and it seems that it's producer Richard Rubinstein has announced a sequel. Dawn of the Dead was one of the movies that made me feel that remakes can be good. So lets see what happens with the sequel.


And what does one do after directing a James Bond movie? Well Marc Foster, director of Quantum of Solace is said to be gearing up to direct a movie adaptation of the zombie novel World War Z, written by Max Brooks... the genius behind the Zombie Survival Guide.

It seems Zombies are the bigs bucks these days... with everything from video games to big shot movies taking them very seriously. I'm looking forward to 28 months later, which was announced by Danny Boyle back in March.... If the quality of the effort is anything like 28 weeks, then we're gonna be in for a real treat. But I think the movie I'm most anticipating next year would have to be the Evil Dead remake. The 1981 movie is one of my all time favorites, given todays movie magic, I think it could be redone very nicely. Plus since it is the man him self, Sam Raimi in charge, only good things will come.

Aside from the big name projects, I'm sure we'll have a lot of pleasing smaller ones too. Colin... a movie a bout a guy being bitten by a zombie is out soon. We get to watch as Colin slowly turns into a flesh craving zombie through the course of the movie. Then there's this really cool poster for Infected that looks promising.


All in all...just keep your eyes and ears open for many incoming Zombie treats. Like real zombies, the good movies seem to almost creep up on us.

Mother F***ing Zombies on a plane!

A long while back I had gotten my hands on a movie called Flight of the living Dead. Thing is, some how this baby had slipped my mind. It wasn't till tonight when a friend of mine asked me "hey you seen that mother f**king movie with them mother f**king zombies on a mother f**king plane?" when I remembered it...It gave me very found memories.

I remember getting this movie as a joke, thinking I was in for some cheap ass thrills and maybe some laughs. I watched this over at a friends place, and I must say, this movie is far from simple cheap thrills.

It has all the makings of a classic. Believable characters, cool looking zombies...and a plot idea that makes you say "I gotta see how they do this"

The story is about a zombie out break on a plane, caused by some scientists that smuggle on board a container...which contains some kind of virus. One thing leads to another and the container's contents are leaked...resulting in some of the planes crew and passengers becoming zombies.


The zombies in this movie are a real treat to watch... with crazy eyes and blood curdling screams, they start to eat up the non-infected people on board the plane. The make-up effects in this movie a very nice... while the blood and gore though not too crazy, are enough to do their part. A lot of the passengers become zombie meals in funny little ways.

The acting for most part of it is pretty decent, though the lines do get a bit campy now and then. But this can only be expected from a movie such as this. You can tell by watching, that though the movie may have a few short comings...it truly does believe in it self, and thus delivers a solid zombie tooting good time.

My favorite zombie in it is the one that Erick Avari turns into, at one point he looses his legs and it's both fun and creepy watching him 'walk' around on his hands.


As far as horror and zombie movies go...you could end up watching some really bad crap. Or you can give your self a treat with this movie.

Here's a web comic that has nothing to do with the film.

Zombie Survival Tips - in plain English

Romero writes a better diary

Sometimes it’s hard to value something unless you have something else to compare it to. The first time I saw Diary of the Dead, sadly I wasn’t very impressed. I was really looking forward to watching it, being Romero’s new zombie baby and all.


But I got around to watching Diary of the Dead in the wake of such movies as the Dawn of the Dead remake and 28 weeks later. So at the end...it all just seemed a bit under whelming.

When I heard of Zombie Diaries, I was very excited. I for one am a huge fan of British horror flicks and British zombie movies in particular. So I figured Zombie Diaries would save the idea of a POV zombie adventure for me.

Man was I wrong.

Zombie Diaries is a Cloverfield style zombie movie. But you know how a lot of these zombie movies focus on the struggling human drama to add to the story? This thing had too much drama and too little zombies for my liking. First of all...no one watches a B grade Zombie movie for the acting or the drama. We wanna see zombies, no matter how poorly done, tearing the cheap B-movie flesh off of people.

...no one gets attacked in this film for a good half hour or so into the movie. Sure we see lots of zombies... but they were too busy mopping around.

When we finally do get to see some action... it wasn’t as graphic as I have come to expect from British zombie movies, or any zombie movie for that matter. Even the cheapest most lamest of zombie movies will dump its budget into getting you some bloody and gutsy kills.

Don’t get me wrong... people do get eaten. But at the end of the movie I felt Zombie Diaries was a bit too conservative with its zombies.

Zombie Diaries

The movie did have a very cool and very intense night scene, with our survivors running past bloody hungry zombies with nothing but the light from their camera to guide their way. But then they had another night scene ...and then did it again...and again...and then again... and then “o lets use night vision!”

We get it! Zombies in the dark are creepy! Now do something else!

Plus the narrative jumps between different groups of survivors to show how every one is dealing with the new zombie situation. This makes for interesting story telling, but the first time it happened, I wasn’t sure who I was looking at. Or rather whose camera I was looking through.

In the end all the stories of the survivors we see, try to come together for a nice pieced up conclusion... but by now I was trying to remember where I had left my copy of Diary of the Dead.

Diary of the Dead

If I hadn’t seen Diary of the living dead...then this movie may have been a little better for me(Even though Zombie Diaries was released before diary of the dead). It was mildly entertaining... but I felt if I hadn’t seen Zombie Diaries, I would not have missed much. One thing that Zombie Diaries does do pretty good is give you the reality feel. After the end product of all the editing in Diary of the dead, they might as well have shot a straight zombie movie.

I guess in the end Zombie Diaries is the Deep Impact to Romero's Armageddon. Just watch them both...as I'm sure many of you already have.

Horror Porn?

Every now and then you come across a movie that you want to give to your friends, not cause it's really good, but because you just wanna go "Dude...check this shit out"

This is one such movie.

Gutterballs

I watched this movie over the weekend, and at the end of it, all my numbed mind could say was "WTF?"

As far as B movies go, this thing was up there with the B-ist of them. The only thing more painful to watch aside from the acting was the kills. Th gore in this thing was just crazy, some scenes just played out so slow and shamefully that it left me in just plain aw. I want to be on the drugs these people were snorting.

A lot of positive reviews about this movie say that it 'takes you back to the 80s slasher style.' Thing is...there are classic slasher movies that we remember cause they were so good, and then there are slasher movies we remember cause they were so...bad.

This is the bad kind...

Somewhere out there, there are people that love this movie because it's so bad that it becomes entertaining. You kinda just sit there watching it to see just how much more 'ballsy' the movie is gonna get.

This thing holds no punches, especially when it comes to the female exploitation bits. Now, horror movies and nudity go hand in hand, and have done so for hundreds of horror movie years. But I can't remember that last time I saw a four second shot of a chicks shaved 'hooch' in a horror movie. Plus, what ever realism the movie lacks in story telling and gore...it more than makes up for in oral sex...you'll see what I mean.

I wouldn't recommend this movie cause it's an awesome slasher flick, but more as an example how some movies just have no bounds.

On the upside, I actually thought people had stopped making movies like this. In the 70s and 80s the video market was full of movies there were made in bad taste... labeled by the popular press as video nasties. Now days the gore and exploitation hide behind weird artist masks. Movies like Saw and Hostel have dressed up the mindless gore, but Gutterballs shows no shame and goes balls out. It's not some bull-crap look at society and what people are doing to them selves for entertainment, it doesn't want to teach you any lessons about morals or values.

It set out to show you lots of blood, tits, ass and gore... and it does just that.

This is not the most amazing horror movie I've seen, but for some reason I honestly can't bring myself to say that it's bad. If you're at the video store and can't think of anything else you want to watch, that is when you rent this movie.

It has a kick ass sound track.