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Thread started 02/22/06 11:13pm

MickG

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Flesh Eating Zombies. The Living Dead!

This is one of my favorite horror movie types. Do we have any other people who like zombies here?
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Reply #1 posted 02/22/06 11:35pm

SenseOfDoubt

MickG, I tell you, the badass guys in that movie are NOT zombies - they are DEAD AMERICANS.
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Reply #2 posted 02/23/06 12:28am

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I adore the zombie theme, and especially George Romero's films.

Night of the Living Dead--Great film
Dawn of the Dead--Fantastic film
Day of the Dead--Poor film
Land of the Dead--Good film

His movies actually have a level of depth to them beyond just "Zombies eat flesh and people are scared of them and outnumbered against them."

Romero's movies use the zombie genre to make statements about the human condition, and how we're our own worst enemy. How one catastrophic incident is all it takes for our own self-destructive, vile nature to bring us to the brink of extinction. How we can be blind to the solutions to our problems because of our own selfishness and narcissism.

That's the thing. The zombies always win in Romero's films because, unlike us, they're united. They have one common goal, and so despite being physically weaker and of primitive intelligence, they win easily every time.

The humans destroy themselves, and the zombies are simply the magnifying glass that reveals in-depth how mind-numbingly hopeless and frustrating we are as a collective society.

The zombies in Romero's every new film are constantly evolving. The humans, with all of their advanced intelligence and impressive accomplishments, simply repeat the same mistakes to the same tragic results.

Romero's "Dead" films aren't just great horror movies; they're works of art.
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Reply #3 posted 02/23/06 12:24pm

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PurpleKnight said:

I adore the zombie theme, and especially George Romero's films.

Night of the Living Dead--Great film
Dawn of the Dead--Fantastic film
Day of the Dead--Poor film
Land of the Dead--Good film

His movies actually have a level of depth to them beyond just "Zombies eat flesh and people are scared of them and outnumbered against them."

Romero's movies use the zombie genre to make statements about the human condition, and how we're our own worst enemy. How one catastrophic incident is all it takes for our own self-destructive, vile nature to bring us to the brink of extinction. How we can be blind to the solutions to our problems because of our own selfishness and narcissism.

That's the thing. The zombies always win in Romero's films because, unlike us, they're united. They have one common goal, and so despite being physically weaker and of primitive intelligence, they win easily every time.

The humans destroy themselves, and the zombies are simply the magnifying glass that reveals in-depth how mind-numbingly hopeless and frustrating we are as a collective society.

The zombies in Romero's every new film are constantly evolving. The humans, with all of their advanced intelligence and impressive accomplishments, simply repeat the same mistakes to the same tragic results.

Romero's "Dead" films aren't just great horror movies; they're works of art.


What are your feelings on the 2002 "remake" of Dawn of the Dead?
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Reply #4 posted 02/23/06 4:32pm

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Olga Karlatos appears in Lucio Fulci's 'Murderock' and 'Zombie' (more widely known as 'Zombie Flesh-Eaters'). The more observant among you will remember that the talented Ms Karlatos played Prince's habitually distressed mom in Purple Rain. In Zombie Flesh-Eaters however, she meets a rather gruesome end executed with a rather large wooden splinter via an eyeball ill

Anyway, little known piece of useless trivia for ya there fact fans. I don't charge shrug
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Reply #5 posted 02/23/06 5:26pm

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I love zombie movies.....but in small doses only. They become repetitive after a while.

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