Post by loverofbeers on Feb 23, 2012 23:49:15 GMT -5
Watched a zombie movie last night that was just released on DVD and Netflix (I got the DVD last night). First heard about it via it's trailer two years back at FantasticFest. Finally here.
The Dead.
Pretty much a buddy film/road trip movie meets George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and now one of my top eight zombie movies after the Romero Trilogy, the Dawn remake, Land of the Dead, Fido, and Dance of the Dead. Number nine would be Shaun. It's that good. I recommend it to ya'll.
The last American transport out of a West African nation suddenly overrun with the recently dead arising anew crashes into the ocean, three men make it to shore, one or maybe two survive the beach crawling with horrors. He is soon saved by an African soldier and they begin their trek across the country by car. And become true friends and brothers at arms.
And the dead are everywhere. Everywhere. And maybe the best zombie deaths yet in film history. Big words, but the special effects were perfect.
This movie reminded of the original Night of the Living Dead in many ways. The movements of the dead and their lack of speed or strength, the scenes where the dead chow on people and their organs, part of the plot's focus on a non-white hero along with the American hero, the need to destroy the brain or cranium of the ghoul, the unknown origin of the epidemic and what it's global scope might be, and the fact that ALL the recently dead will arise upon death, not just those that have been bitten.
The movie might move to slowly for many, but the folks who come hear are into smart horror, so seek it out.
Here's the trailer. Cheers!
The Dead.
Pretty much a buddy film/road trip movie meets George Romero's Night of the Living Dead, and now one of my top eight zombie movies after the Romero Trilogy, the Dawn remake, Land of the Dead, Fido, and Dance of the Dead. Number nine would be Shaun. It's that good. I recommend it to ya'll.
The last American transport out of a West African nation suddenly overrun with the recently dead arising anew crashes into the ocean, three men make it to shore, one or maybe two survive the beach crawling with horrors. He is soon saved by an African soldier and they begin their trek across the country by car. And become true friends and brothers at arms.
And the dead are everywhere. Everywhere. And maybe the best zombie deaths yet in film history. Big words, but the special effects were perfect.
This movie reminded of the original Night of the Living Dead in many ways. The movements of the dead and their lack of speed or strength, the scenes where the dead chow on people and their organs, part of the plot's focus on a non-white hero along with the American hero, the need to destroy the brain or cranium of the ghoul, the unknown origin of the epidemic and what it's global scope might be, and the fact that ALL the recently dead will arise upon death, not just those that have been bitten.
The movie might move to slowly for many, but the folks who come hear are into smart horror, so seek it out.
Here's the trailer. Cheers!