Your brain smells delicious: Zombie Films
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Topic: Your brain smells delicious: Zombie Films
Posted By: Logan
Subject: Your brain smells delicious: Zombie Films
Date Posted: August 02 2018 at 21:15
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I have two free spaces for any others. This is a multiple vote poll, feel free to vote once for every choice in a poll option if you want to. * I cheated a bit with Charlie Brooker's Dead Set miniseries, but since it can easily be watched as a movie as it runs only about 142 minutes, and has been broadcast as a TV film, I couldn't resist. 2 (2009) 28 Days Later (2002) 28 Weeks Later (2007) Aaah! Zombies!, aka Wasting Away (2007) Battery, The (2012) Beyond, The (1981) Cemetery Man (1994) Colin (2008) Cooties (2014) Dance Of The Dead (2008) Dawn of the Dead (1978) Dawn of the Dead (2004) Day of the Dead (1985) Dead Alive (aka Braindead) (1992) Dead & Buried (1981) Dead, The (2010) Deadgirl (2008) Dead Set (2008) Dead Snow (2009) Demons (1985) Evil Dead (1981) Evil Dead 2 (1987) Girl With All the Gifts, The (2016) Horde, La (2009) I Walked With a Zombie (1943) Juan of the Dead (2010) Land of the Dead (2005) Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) Mulberry Street (2006) Nightmare City (1980) Night of the Comet (1984) Night of the Creeps (1986) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Night of the Living Dead (1990) Plague of the Zombies, The (1966) Planet Terror (2007) Pontypool (2008) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) Rammbock: Berlin Undead (2010) Re-Animator (1985) REC (2007) Return of the Living Dead (1985) Serpent and the Rainbow, The (1988) Shaun of the Dead (2004) Shock Waves (1977) Signal, The (2007) Slither (2006) Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972) Train to Busan (2016) Versus (2000) Video Dead, The (1987) White Zombie (1932) World War Z (2013) Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) Zeder (1983) Zombi 2 (1979) Zombieland (2009) Just remembered a couple more, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse and Zoombie. Have added City of the Living Dead. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 03:12
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Do I am Legend by Will Smith count as a Zombie film? -------------  
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 03:24
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`Tombs of the Blind Dead' for me. Not so much a coherent film but just full of some very creepy scenes, a cool concept and very dreamy visuals. `Train to Busan' was a ripper of a modern flick too. Not so much particularly original but completely relentless and fast-paced. Like the best couple of scenes of `World War Z' stretched to an entire movie. 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 03:54
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As I've probably seen ca. 15% of these* and chances are I'll never gonna get passed 20% so I can't vote. Admittedly I see far less films than ever before - probably down to about 15 or so per year. Sort of afraid to get dissapointed or something... which I often am - also afraid to see old favourites over in case I won't like them as much as I used to. My couple-or trio of Herzog, Tarkovsky, Allen, Bergman, Monty Python, Lynch, Trier, Polanski, Truffaut-favorites are my movie "safe-spaces" (much against that concept in most other contexts though). Anyway seen (ratings are mainly from memory based of the impact it had on a much younger me): Re-Animator  28 Days Later  (great for about 20 minutes though)Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2  Night of the Living Dead (both) Return of the Living Dead  Serpent and the Rainbow  Zombie 2  -so feel free to recommend three or five among the rest that are absolutely essential.
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 05:18
| It seems multiple votes are not allowed. I would have voted for The Beyond, Evil Dead, I Walked With a Zombie and White Zombie, and from outside the list City of the Living Dead. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 07:33
Fixed, multiple votes now allowed, and adding City of the Living Dead (I love the soundtrack). ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Vompatti wrote:Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 07:55
I have seen it. Sort of, rather like the mutants in Pandorium. I think it at least loosely falls into the zombie genre as the mutants are zombieish and I'm sure it must have been inspired by zombie movies (has similarities to 28 Days Later). I won't at this moment, but I think it would be includable, but problem is, there are a number in that ilk that I would want to include. Going to save it for another poll. It's a bit of a strange one, because in the novel that it's based on, I seem to recall that they are described as vampires, as with other adaptations of the novel like Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man (will Smith has not always been in the most faithful of adaptations, such as his "I, Robot" and "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" being an adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited"*). I was thinking about doing a mutants poll, and in that case I will try to remember to include it. *The Brideshead Revisited is a joke, but there may be some truth to it. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 08:01
Tombs of the Blind Dead is very good, and I do love Train to Busan. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 08:12
I adored The Girl With All the Gifts -- I was very moved by it (and Aussie and Vomps choices are good). Train to Busan is very good, I think. By the way, feel free to vote if you only like one (I've crammed a huge amount into the list and wouldn't expect many people to have seen many of them). Another one that I found worth watching is Rammbock: Berlin Undead. It is gory. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: hieronymous
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 09:16
| I voted for the original Dawn of the Dead (aka ZOMBI?) - I actually only like the first 20-30 minutes, to me it drags after that, but those first 20 minutes, with the music of Goblin, is just perfect for me. I like the 2004 remake too - again, though, the set-up is the part I like, I lose interest once they get settled in the mall. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 10:02
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Other -
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 12:53
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That is classic Simpsons. For comedy, I do like Shaun of the Dead, and Zombieland is quite funny though I was upset over what happened to Bill Murray. And Poultrygeist is amusing. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 15:31
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Night of the Living Dead (original) Serpent and the Rainbow Re-Animator Also love the tv series iZombie  ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 18:53
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Seen a couple episodes of iZombie, looked like fun, and perhaps, rather like with Santa Clarita Diet, I should have stuck with it (it's still on Netflix, I think, as is Dead Set...) I got through a few seasons of The Walking Dead, but I started to lose interest (feels too stretched out to me and I'm a bit impatient). Also, watched quite a lot of Z Nation, and I watched an Australian one called Glitch which is a different take on the dead rising. Perhaps my favourite zombie show is called In The Flesh, but sadly it was not renewed by the BBC after just two series/seasons, and it was left open-ended. It's poignant. It has the opposite problem of The Walking Dead, there's not enough. Needs a few episodes to conclude the story. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyg6g2" rel="nofollow - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyg6g2 I rather cheated by sneaking in another TV series (like In the Flesh, it is also British) that I love in this list, Dead Set (has shown on TV as 2 and a half hour movie), but it's really a 142 minute miniseries with five episodes (Charlie Brooker of Black Mirror fame was behind it). Now that was just the perfect length, totally self-contained with a satisfying ending. It's a Zombie meets Big Brother (the "reality" show) tale. Has some Zombiesque qualities, really it's a supernatural drama, more in the Glitch realm, but I have to mention the French Les Revenants again (it's such a superb series). Again, I would have liked a series three. Seems too many of my modern faves that came out at about the same time didn't get past two series (like Utopia). My problem with many American shows is that they milk them for all they are worth, and they just keep going and going until the ratings are really down, it's jumped the shark or the quality is not consistently high. They fizzle out. ------------- Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: August 03 2018 at 22:08
Ya, iZombie is definitely a fun ride...bad puns abound and I love when Liv gets on some weird brain and takes on the personality of a hockey enforcer or whatever  As far as The Walking Dead, I liked the first few seasons when the focus was survival in a post-apocalyptic world, but when they introduced The Governor, the focus changed to a human group vs human group feel that I didn't like as much. When they introduced Negan they just went all out sadistic violence and that was enough for me. ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: August 04 2018 at 01:36
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