Immortal Zombie Films

Zombies, it seems, are everywhere — on movie screens, televisions and even walking down the streets.
How did they get there? Well, that’s a very good question.

Some posit that zombies are created by some kind of virus. Others from a voodoo spell or drug. Some say it comes from being gnawed on by another flesh-eater (which leaves the “how did it start?” question wide open).

Some don’t even try to provide a plausible explanation of how zombies are created — it’s only a movie, TV show or playing dress up, after all.

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Nastiest Zombie Movies

We list the 25 grossest, most disgusting, nasty zombie movies to have ever smeared our brains.

Zombie fans can rejoice. In the past, the popular horror movie villains may have been considered cult attractions, fodder for low budget DVD filmmakers lacking real vision, but this past weekend saw the successful release of World War Z, an honest-to-God big budget zombie epic that finally depicts walking flesh-eaters engaged in a global takeover. It’s big, it’s pricey, it’s got a big star in Brad Pitt, and it’s- wait, wait, wait, WHAT? You’re telling me it’s PG-13? Huh? Aren’t they still zombies? Aren’t they still meant to be ferocious? Aren’t they still eating flesh? What the hell is this PG-13 stuff?

 

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Tip on How To Fight Zombies

Earlier this evening I got a chance to listen to “WMMA Jam Live” a radio show about women’s MMA hosted by Stacey Lynn with special guest Tommy Toe Hold.

One of the guests on the show was “The Queen of Spades” Shayna Baszler. Among the topics Stacey and Shayna talked about include “The Ultimate Fighter,” training with Nate Diaz and the “crazy things” she saw in the UFC.

In an unrelated topic, Baszler also gave listeners advice on how to survive the zombie apocalypse.
The Queen of Spades recommended stay in a safe house somewhere with enough water and food, learn how to use different kinds of weaponry and have a badass on your team. She also recommended watching “The Walking Dead” as well as read the graphic novel. This advice was not only for taking care of zombies, but also other people you may encounter.

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Zombies are Featured TV Characters

AMC’s The Walking Dead has key ratings better than network dramas. The show gets desirable young viewers by not skimping on explicit action, gore or storytelling. So why haven’t the networks tried to imitate the show? Blame the FCC, which cracks down on explicit network broadcast content but overlooks cable
But perhaps not the young audience that commercial networks and cable crave, for them there is “The Walking Dead.”

NPR’s TV critic Eric Deggans says this flesh-eating zombie fest looks like the future of television.

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Dead Island Zombie Remake Relives Horror and Heartbreak

You remember the trailer for the zombie video game Dead Island—the horrifying 2011 spot by Scotland’s Axis Animation that won a gold Lion at Cannes, yet was so violent and disturbing that it was booed by the audience at the Palais? (Adweek still named it one of that year’s 10 best ads.) Well, for whatever reason, Hatchet III director B.J. McDonnell went and made a shot-for-shot, live-action remake of it.

The attention to every gory detail is amazing—and if the emotional impact here is slightly less, that only reinforces the genius of the original, which somehow made you care deeply about a handful of cartoon characters.

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Paintings Inspired by Zombie Movies

Artist George Pfau draws from impressionism and pointillism to create paintings of scenes from zombie movies. And, like the undead menace at the beginning of the movies who appear nothing more than feral humans, the zombies only just emerge from the landscapes.

This isn’t the first time Pfau has explored the zombie genre through art; his Zombie Index examined the notion of zombie plural and individual identity through an interactive painting. His Zombiescapes are a particularly fascinating blend of movies and fine arts. It’s easy enough to identify which painting belongs to which movies (up top it’s Night of the Living Dead), but the impressionistic style invites us to consider the zombie figures deprived of their dead faces and movie gore. Do we identify them as zombies based on their placement in the scene and their body language? Or are they transformed into living humans, perhaps out for an ordinary stroll on the square or a trip to the mall?

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Shocking Horror Films

It’s that time of year again. When pumpkins glower maniacally, people jovially ask to borrow friends’ faces for their costume and tech-savvy kids do a spot of trick or tweeting.

But what to accompany these most hallowed hours of horror? Jason or Freddy? Alien or Predator? Those bouts have been reckoned before in a cross-bred arena of franchise fetishism.

Why not go to the roots of the genre, the grimy, flea-bitten offspring sucking at the teats of gore and depravity?

Schlock horror is impolite and distasteful, insane and untamed. Often made by maverick meisters with miniscule means, their aim is to shock, offend and delight in equal measure.

Prepare to schlock around the clock as we present the ultimate Halloween all-nighter.

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