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PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zombie films: why we're obsessed with the undead
An American university is offering a new class on zombies. The course is being offered by the University of Baltimore and will be taught by the author Arnold Blumberg, who wrote a book on zombie movies, and the curator of Geppi’s Entertainment museum, which specialises in American pop culture. Students taking English 333 will watch 16 classic zombie films and read zombie comics.


Zombies were ushered in with the Haitian vodoun chillers White Zombie (1932)...


..and I Walked with a Zombie (1943)...


...before evolving into the racially-unspecific, shuffling, moaning hordes we now recognise in George A Romero's seminal Night of the Living Dead (1968)


Zombies are gregarious beasts. Because they lack the power of independent thought, filmmakers have latched on to them as embodiments of the herd mentality: Romero especially saw the potential for allegory here. His great Dawn of the Dead (1978), remade for a different age by Zack Snyder in 2004, had them overrunning an abandoned shopping mall, drifting up and down the escalators to anaesthetising musak, like every chain store's ideal customer


Zombies have a virulent way with a franchise, from the video-game derived Resident Evil series...


...to 28 Days Later...


...and 28 Weeks Later...


...not forgetting 2004's Shaun of The Dead...


...and Charlie Brooker's Big-Brother-with-zombs E4 thriller Dead Set


Some of Hollywood's best-known directors cut their teeth (so to speak) on zombie films. Sam Raimi was just 21 when he made The Evil Dead (1981)...


...Raimi went on to make several sequels, including 1992's Army Of Darkness, before becoming one of Hollywood's most bankable directors, responsible for the Spider-Man trilogy


Peter Jackson is another Hollywood fixture who made zombie films earlier in his career. The effects in 1992's Braindead, also known as Dead Alive, are a million miles away from the CGI in the Lord of the Rings trilogy


In 1983, Michael Jackson and John Landis brought us dancing zombies in Thriller, considered by many as the greatest pop video ever made.


The 2009 film Zombieland - starring Jessie Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson with a cameo by Bill Murray - drew comparisons with Shaun Of The Dead for its slapstick treatment of horror


2008's Zombie Strippers starred Robert Englund (from endless Nightmare on Elm Street films) and Jenna Jameson (from endless adult films). The film's plot is summed up in its title.


Zibahkhana, also known as Hell's Ground, was Pakistan's first gore film. The ultra-low-budget film's title is Urdu for Slaughterhouse.


The latest genre mash-up in the works is a film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - 15 per cent written by Seth Grahame-Smith, whose previous books include How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn, and 85 per cent by some upstart called Jane Austen. It keeps all the main characters from her best-loved novel, but adds a few who aren't alive, don't speak, and would presumably rather eat the Bennet sisters than propose to them.


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Zombie Strippers? Why has no one told me about this?! thumbs
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

haha i was just thinking why i haven't i heard of zombie strippers! i'm gonna have to check the torrent sites ... Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



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Here are some top-quality zombie comics...
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


The Walking Dead


This is a new series about ZOMBIES - yeah! There's a low quality copy of the first episode doing the rounds, but the show's looking good so far.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks for the info on that, i watched it last night and its looking like it'll be pretty good thumbs

i don't know if they shortened the first episode, or the leaked version had some missing, but according to wiki the first episode is supposed to be 90 minutes, and the copy i got was only 67
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 3:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm watching the second episode now and it actually made me puke a bit... now that's good tv!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am really enjoying this show. And if you like the show you'll love the comic it came from!
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ridiculous OTT sounds during the "organ donator" scene. I'm guessing that's what you're referring to, Face.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

that's the one yeah... it's still making me heave. haha




Here's a torrent of issues 1-68 of the comic - CLICK
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


Humans vs. Zombies
This documentary (filmed and edited by Max Temkin) follows the fourth game of “Humans vs. Zombies” at Goucher College. Includes interviews with game leaders, players, and spectators and clips from over thirty hours of film from the game.

For more information on Humans vs. Zombies check out www.HumansVsZombies.org
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Teenage Zombies
A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.


Revolt of The Zombies
An international expedition is sent into Cambodia to destroy an ancient formula that turns men into zombies.

click HERE for a list of full-length Zombie movies on Youtube.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


The Zombie Survival Guide
This is the audio book - be armed, be prepared, be ready for ZOMBIES!
(They don't just come in the winter you know, amateur error)

download 243mb rar
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure what would be left worth buying, but might come in handy...



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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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