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     Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
I've been buying quite a few films recently and I think tomorrow I'm going to have a zombie film marathon. Diary Of The Dead, Rec, and Fido to start with (none of which I've seen yet) and maybe something trashy after that, see if Zombie Nosh was as fucking dreadful as I remember it being. Or maybe go with one of the classics. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
I passed on the chance to buy Flight of the Living Dead for £6 earlier today - was that the right choice? | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
That new job's gone to your head, sir. You're buying right, left and centre. Poe's P in the post! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
New job hasn't started yet. All the paperwork's sorted now, just waiting for them to give me the start date. It's my redunancy money I'm spending. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.187.45 |
You're selling Poe's pee?? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Yes, it's a bargain - £6.50 a litre. I'm selling shakespeare's pee if you want some. Only £50 a pint. - Come's with a signed provenance that it did genuinely come from old Willy himself. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Yes. Distilled from the finest Amontillado. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.231.208 |
How come only now in human history has the "zombie" really appeared - within the last, oh, let's stretch it to 50 years of movies...? Did no one else think of the dead rising up and eating the living and infecting those newly dead, exponentially expanding to some great apocalypse?... odd, really.... | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
Not so odd. The reanimated dead is a classic theme of folklore and weird fiction, like the vampire and the werewolf. What's relatively new is the cannibal zombie apolocalypse, because Romero invented it. The fact that many other film-makers borrowed it doesn't make it any less one person's rather good idea and in no way an archetype of the human collective mind. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.11.106 |
True, Joel. I was just wondering why no one in history's seemed to have stumbled across the cannibal aspect of the dead rising. Being consumed is common in myth and folklore, and the dead rising is common (as is the horror of "infection" - plagues, for example)... how come I can think of no real instances of the two meeting? Vampires is the closest analogy to zombies, and that one is relatively recent as well (i.e., the vampire "infecting" others, turning them into vampires). | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
How about Ghouls? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoul Other myths describe the ghoul as a corpse brought back to life by a witch or some demon to do tasks There's your zombie archetype right there. | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 38.113.181.169 |
I'm pretty sure Romero acknowledges that they are closer to ghouls than zombies. At least, I think I'm pretty sure. I get real tired sometimes. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.5.11.106 |
Mmmm... ghouls are more like eaters-of-the-dead. Like coyotes, or scavengers. I mean, someone you know, dies, and wants to EAT you - making you in turn want to eat others - the worst imaginable horror... it never really occurred to anyone like that before?... | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.181.120 |
If memory serves, I think Romero originally thought of them as ghouls while making Night of the Living Dead, and the title 'zombie' was only used later on. The Haitian zombie has been around for a long, long time, but they were used as slaves. Vacant, glassy eyes and shambling aside, they don't really resemble the flesh-eating monsters that appear in zombie films of recent decades. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
I got round to my Zombie marathon last night. Rec more than lioved up to its reputation. The thing in the night vision at the end is possibly the most vile thing I've seen on film in a long time. Very well done to all involved. Fido - this was a welcome change of pace and one of the most original zombie films I've seen. Billy Connolly stars as a boy's pet zombie in a strange 50's surburbia where every household has their own tame zombie to do the household chores. Well worth watching. Diary of the Dead - I loved this one as well, still not up to the standard of the original series but a cracking good film. The exploding eyeballs when she used a defib on the zombie's head in the hospital was a neat touch. After those 3 I'd run out of zombie films so I put on Ju-on - The Grudge for a rewatch before I watch the sequel later in the week. It was easier to follow this time than originally and you really don't notice time pass as you watch this, you just get sucked right in. The sound recorder needs a special award. Not a good film to watch with a black cat sat on your lap. He kept reacting to the cat noises on the soundtrack. I think it scared him as well. My next Horror marathon will start with Ju-on 2, followed by The Host followed by Them (the new film that says "You'll bever feel safe in your home again". I hope that claim's not true because I can't afford to move house) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
If Them was a comedy film it would be like a very long, drawn out sketch. You'd still laugh but it wouldn't add too much to itself, or you. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Is all three X-men films in one night too much to take on? I've only seen the first but I got hold of a box set for £4 the other day. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
The second is long. And the third much criticized, although watching it the other night I found it quite affecting, and not at all bad. Ratner was brought in very late to the project and did the best he could, I thought. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
BTw the first is little over an hour long, so I'd say watch. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.190.15 |
I liked the first two X-Men films, but the third was a major let-down. The second is by far the best. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
So to return to a question at the start of this thread - was I right to pass up on Flight of the Living Dead for £6? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.54 |
And here's the answer nearly four months later. Yes you were - but only because now you can get it for a fiver which is even better value for this updated Roger Corman-style B picture which features a bunch of familiar (but on the whole not-so-familiar depending on how much of this sort of thing you watch on a semi-regular basis) faces being torn apart and having their blood squirted all over the insides of an aeroplane. There's plenty of quirky laugh out loud dialogue and some fun performances. Really enjoyable and it does show the Resident Evil crowd how to do this sort of thing. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
You are a star, Lord P. |