Living Dead Series & Other Zombie Flicks - When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth....

[Saxxon]

Wait there's people that genuinely hate Day? Mind you, I still enjoy more Dawn because I like seeing society going to shit, the cheesiness of it and the whole "let's make a mall into a fucking zombie bunker" but Day is also pretty cool: interesting characters, nice drama, it really gives you a sense of dread seeing how there's just no way out and of the original trilogy it has the best production values.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Wait there's people that genuinely hate Day? Mind you, I still enjoy more Dawn because I like seeing society going to shit, the cheesiness of it and the whole "let's make a mall into a fucking zombie bunker" but Day is also pretty cool: interesting characters, nice drama, it really gives you a sense of dread seeing how there's just no way out and of the original trilogy it has the best production values.

Day of the Dead was one of those movies that was disliked when it first came out in 1985 but is now far more well-liked.

Day's grimdark style didn't go over that well in the 80's and it was at the tail end of the OG "Zombie Boom" of the 70's and 80's, so it was a victim of bad timing when it first came out.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

If any of you missed out on Dellamorte Dellamore (Cemetery Man) you should also really give it a shot pretty much everyone I know who loves horror/zombie movies agrees it's like, top 10 of all times easily.

Criminally underseen.

 

[horrorfan89]

Day of the Dead was one of those movies that was disliked when it first came out in 1985 but is now far more well-liked.

Day's grimdark style didn't go over that well in the 80's and it was at the tail end of the OG "Zombie Boom" of the 70's and 80's, so it was a victim of bad timing when it first came out.

Yeah a grim dark atmosphere is said to be one reason critics weren't too kind to the thing 3 years prior to day. But that can't be the only reason, after all. Am American werewolf in London and the fly had similar downer feels to them and those are some of the lucky horror movies from the 80s to be spared by the critics of the era.

Though you could chalk awil being liked thanks to John landis balancing comedy with horror and David cronnenburg telling a deep and intricate character study into the fragility of life and how it can be gone as soon as its given


Getting back on topic for as good as day is the fact that it failed while the more humorous and Tounge in cheek return of the living dead succeeded often feels like it set a precident for zombie movies for years to come. In other words in order to be a success a zombie movie needs Comedy and humor even when it contradicts the tension and serious tone.

 

[Schmeckel]

That dummy head prop actually got used in dawn of the dead after they changed the ending.

The scene in the apartments where a guy gets his head exploded was the dummy prop Savini used for Fran, They changed the skin tone to be darker, stuffed the head with livers and whatever was on the food table, Added fake blood and Savini used a real shotgun to blast the dummy head.

Then a couple years later, he got to do the same thing in Maniac.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Saw one that I would consider "pretty good" that fell under my radar.

Zombie makeup and gore is quite good even though the zombies do talk. The characters are tolerable but I never liked the trope of the pathetic loser is forced to be a man situation in movies. A big reason why I couldn't get into Zombieland despite the presence of the amazing Woody Harrelson.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Day is obviously so much fucking better than Dawn and the patrician's choice, how the fuck are Dawn and ROTLD winning the poll over it?

Dawn has the more fun premise, Day has the better zombie effects.

I've always been disappointed with the zombie and gore effects in Dawn, it's pretty rough, you have to forgive it somewhat because it was basically the first real modern zombie movie even beyond NOTLD and they were still figuring things out.

I'm sure budget was also a factor, it reminds me of Romero's Martin, absolutely fucking genius script that suffers from very cheap budget, same deal with Dawn to some degree although not as much.

Meanwhile the zombie effects in Day are incredible, probably the best ever? Some of the best at least.

Day is a fucking great movie don't get me wrong, but it's a lot bleaker and more depressing than Dawn, the fantasy of having a shopping mall all to yourself is pretty potent, it's fun to imagine what you would do in that scenario, Day's scenario is nightmarish and not at all fun to imagine yourself in, now that was a perfectly worthwhile direction to take it in, it's supposed to be horror after all, but Dawn resonates a little more.

On a side note, has anyone here read Romero's original script for Day of The Dead? The one that was deemed too expensive? It's similar to to the final movie except it's about a whole large community of people living in a underground bunker than just a handful of people, you can clearly see that Romero reused some of the ideas for Land of The Dead, one detail in the original script I love is the leader of this community is the fat governor of Florida who lives like a Roman emperor, feasting on fruit and forcing women to exercise in the nude for his entertainment, he later tries to hide from the zombies in a tanning bed but he's so fat his limbs stick out and the zombies eat his limbs, forcing him to slowly die than die quickly, gnarly.

The ending of the script and the implications for the Living Dead world are also wild, without spoiling it it would have been a more definitive ending to the series.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Saw one that I would consider "pretty good" that fell under my radar.

Zombie makeup and gore is quite good even though the zombies do talk. The characters are tolerable but I never liked the trope of the pathetic loser is forced to be a man situation in movies. A big reason why I couldn't get into Zombieland despite the presence of the amazing Woody Harrelson.

That was fun
We streamed it on Movie Night one weekend

 

[Yaoi Huntress Earth]

I find zombie flicks to be a bit stale so they have to do something unique to get my interest like Dead Snow: Red vs Dead or Aaah! Zombies!.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

I find zombie flicks to be a bit stale so they have to do something unique to get my interest like Dead Snow: Red vs Dead or Aaah! Zombies!.

So check out Dellamorte Dellamore/Cemetery Man it's definitely one of the most out there zombie movies (which also happens to be one of the best zombie movies of all time)

 

[Gravemind]

I love Scott H. Reiniger's little unhinged moments in this movie.

 

[Calandrino]

Well I watched a couple of Jean Rollin zombie movies: Living Dead Girl and Grapes of Death. Jean Rollin is a unique figure in the history of horror cinema in that nobody actually likes his movies. But if you like dreamy atmospheres, beautiful women, and disgusting gore... you still won't like them, nobody does. They are boring and they are all the same, with a girl wearing a billowy white dress wandering around the French countryside in a fugue state and then dying or deciding that life is meaningless. They're always described as "dreamlike" but seldom as "nightmarish" and are some of the least foreboding or ominous horror movies ever, considering their subject matter. I always find myself checking the running time by the the 30:00 minute mark and wondering why the fuck I'm watching this. Because he's a notorious cult director and an "artist" so I have to, same as everybody else I guess.

Living Dead Girl has a fair amount of spoken English, which, for the non-French speaker, demystifies the movie for those parts. It stops being a weird foreign art film and becomes a regular movie, but still with nothing happening. The zombie girl talks, a little.

Grapes of Death is one of those "not-technically-zombies" zombie movies. The zombies aren't really dead and are frequently gregarious. The talking, hatchet-and-scythe-wielding zombies milling around stone cottages and getting plugged with a rifle give the movie a very apparent resemblance to Resident Evil 4 that might not be coincidental. If you've played the game you can't not see it.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I like Jean Rollin. Fuck you.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Anybody ever see Redneck Zombies?

It's one of the early Troma flicks from the 80's and one of my favorites when it comes to trashy Z-movies.

 

[XYZpdq]

Anybody ever see Redneck Zombies?

It's one of the early Troma flicks from the 80's and one of my favorites when it comes to trashy Z-movies.

I think I have. I know I've seen it in playlists and video collections. I think it's like Uncle Sam where I know I've watched it but never paid enough attention to recall anything beyond the fact it exists.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Anybody ever see Redneck Zombies?

It's one of the early Troma flicks from the 80's and one of my favorites when it comes to trashy Z-movies.

Not only have I seen it but it holds the distinction as being the first DVD I ever purchased. Not the first one I rented, because I think that was Alien. But the first one to own. The reason why is that Troma had an insane 25 cent DVD sale on their site where they were selling DVD's for a quarter a piece. The catch was the high shipping and as kid I didn't have the money for it. So there were a lot of resellers on Ebay and I think I paid $8 for it.

A ripoff now, sure. But keep in mind that when DVD came out the discs would cost closer to $25-40 a piece.

Anyway, it's a guilty pleasure and I can enjoy it when I'm in the mood. It has oddly dark moments like the scene where the little girl is forced to watch animal snuff films.

 

[Lollipop Head]

Not only have I seen it but it holds the distinction as being the first DVD I ever purchased. Not the first one I rented, because I think that was Alien. But the first one to own. The reason why is that Troma had an insane 25 cent DVD sale on their site where they were selling DVD's for a quarter a piece. The catch was the high shipping and as kid I didn't have the money for it. So there were a lot of resellers on Ebay and I think I paid $8 for it.

A ripoff now, sure. But keep in mind that when DVD came out the discs would cost closer to $25-40 a piece.

Anyway, it's a guilty pleasure and I can enjoy it when I'm in the mood. It has oddly dark moments like the scene where the little girl is forced to watch animal snuff films.

You can find it on youtube nowaday:

it's a guilty pleasure of mine too when I was a kids and I can enjoy it when I'm in the mood even if it stupid as all hell but it's good dumb (they even have a gay character in it lol

Saw one that I would consider "pretty good" that fell under my radar.

Zombie makeup and gore is quite good even though the zombies do talk. The characters are tolerable but I never liked the trope of the pathetic loser is forced to be a man situation in movies. A big reason why I couldn't get into Zombieland despite the presence of the amazing Woody Harrelson.

I liked it too but the manga was better because the movies only take 1/3 of the story which lost the a lack of dynamism in the final result, or a slavish aestheticization of the manga.The problem I have is that its shamelessly set up for a sequel, and though it’s inarguably overlong, narratively familiar and regrettably regressive in its sidelining of would-be kickass female characters.I do like how they’re gross, surprising and, with elements borrowed from J-horror, actually scary.

I fully recommed reading I am a hero manga because I personally think that the manga deserves 8.5 – 9/10. It is truly well drawn for the seinen style, with a dark mood and occasional staccatos of comedy and light-hearted conversations in the middle of the crisis unraveling before them. A really creative approach to show what a hero truly is instead of someone with super powers and tights. It also has a rather large mystery enshrouding the whole story such as where and when did it all start? Why are some creatures different from each other? Lastly, the amount of realistic action and tension is really well-spread and comes when you least expect it, I Am A Hero will definitely keep you at the edge of your seat but Hideo does remind me of my fellow Aspies but I still can connect with him on those fronts and the ending can feel rushed but is not as bad as attack on titan.

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pls read if you interested https://mangakomi.com/manga/i-am-a-hero/

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[Calandrino]

Today's selection is Vengeance of the Zombies.



This is a Paul Naschy movie -- he is one of those guys that was in a million horror movies, but in Spain. I have only seen a couple of his movies before and then only in very cheap transfers, and watching this one in HD, it turns out it's actually very nicely shot, and resembles a giallo. Lots of bright red and distractingly flashy decor. In this movie Naschy plays an Indian (red dot), which is of course great. It's set in London but the English dub is all in American accents.

The movie concerns the resurrection of zombies via the Satanic rites of voodoo (sic). They don't eat anybody that I recall, just kill them, and there aren't big hordes of them. Furthermore they're all attractive women wearing semitransparent clothes. Generally it's auspicious when a zombie movie has a scene in a graveyard, and this has a few. It's a gothic cheeseball melodrama sort of movie, not a zombie apocalypse.

An actual chicken is actually decapitated in one scene. One the one hand it's very sad to see the death of an animal exploited for entertainment in a schlock film. On the other hand it's a fucking chicken.

Anybody ever see Redneck Zombies?

It's one of the early Troma flicks from the 80's and one of my favorites when it comes to trashy Z-movies.

I've not had the pleasure. But when I tried looking it up I came across this:

Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead (2011)​

Wracked with guilt over the suicide of her sister Ai, who was tormented by high school bullies, pretty young karate student Megu accompanies a group of older friends on a camping trip into the woods: smart girl Aya, her druggie boyfriend Také, big-boobed model Maki, and nerdy Naoi. Things start to go badly when Maki finds a parasitical worm inside a fish they catch – and wolfs it down alive, in the hope that it’ll help keep her skinny! Soon after, and not so unexpectedly in situations like this, zombies show up and begin to complicate things further. After they’re attached by a crowd of poop-covered undead who emerge from an outhouse toilet, the group seeks refuge at the home of strange Dr. Tanaka and his daughter Sachi. But unbeknownst to them, Tanaka has been conducting experiments on the parasites—and the zombies!—and has another fate in mind for the five strangers from the city.

Passing on this for now but those of you with Japanese schoolgirl scat fetishes (so like 70% of you at least) might want to research it further.

 

[Tor Lugosi]

Day of the Dead has a lot of great ideas, like the researching of the reanimated and a military unit coming undone as they suffer in isolation... but it kinda fucks them up with a weak script. The soldiers are very cartoonish (both as written and acted) and the entirety of Bub is retarded. It's not a bad film by any stretch but it could have been so much better with a stronger script.

Also, I watched Dawn of the Dead - Complete Cut recently. Due to the distribution rights issues with the film the blu-ray that has it seems to be out of print and the sole torrent I found for it was dead but someone uploaded a good copy to YouTube. The added 30 minutes of course fucks up the pacing but I enjoyed the extra time with the characters and scenario, so I thought it was great.

 

[Product Placement]

Day of the Dead has a lot of great ideas, like the researching of the reanimated and a military unit coming undone as they suffer in isolation... but it kinda fucks them up with a weak script. The soldiers are very cartoonish (both as written and acted) and the entirety of Bub is retarded. It's not a bad film by any stretch but it could have been so much better with a stronger script.

Also, I watched Dawn of the Dead - Complete Cut recently. Due to the distribution rights issues with the film the blu-ray that has it seems to be out of print and the sole torrent I found for it was dead but somewhat uploaded a good copy to YouTube. The added 30 minutes of course fucks up the pacing but I enjoyed the extra time with the characters and scenario, so I thought it was great.

Dawn of the Dead got a great remaster in the UK last year however the blu ray is region locked, but they also did a 4k blu ray set which like all 4k blu rays have no region code, also comes with three cuts of the movie. Can pick it up for around £30 for the set with just the movies and extras disc.