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Favorite Zombie Movie?; in honor of Halloween!
Topic Started: Oct 27 2011, 05:36 PM (95 Views)
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What is your favorite Zombie movie?
Here are my top 3:
1) Shaun of the Dead
2) Zombieland (just the opening sequence with Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" is worth the entire movie - oh, and THE RULES)
3) 28 Days

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The Resident Evil series is really good. My favorite would be Extinction, followed closely by Apocalypse. Milla Jojovich is sooo hot.

Zombieland was also a fun movie. The Rules! I'm a fan of any Bill Murray appearance. And Emma Stone is sooo hot.

Shaun of the Dead. Though I liked the duo a lot better Hot Fuzz, this was still a funny movie. Nick Frost is sooo hot.

Ones I really want to see: Dead Snow, Dawn of the Dead
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CallUpChuck
Oct 27 2011, 06:57 PM
The Resident Evil series is really good. My favorite would be Extinction, followed closely by Apocalypse. Milla Jojovich is sooo hot.

Zombieland was also a fun movie. The Rules! I'm a fan of any Bill Murray appearance. And Emma Stone is sooo hot.

Shaun of the Dead. Though I liked the duo a lot better Hot Fuzz, this was still a funny movie. Nick Frost is sooo hot.

Ones I really want to see: Dead Snow, Dawn of the Dead
agreed. That Bill Murray sequence was priceless. Plus, I remembered how good twinkies are - like sunshine in cake form :shine:
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Shaun of the Dead was awesome. Although they were better in Hot Fuzz (like Chuck said) it still made me lol quite hard.

I loved everything about Zombieland, from the Metallica intro to Twinkies. Brilliant stupidity! :D
Edited by crazybydefault, Oct 28 2011, 04:29 AM.
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Zombie films are my favourite genre films. So I'm full of annoying opinions on the matter ;)

What's been mentioned so far:
Zombieland was.. fine. I might like it more now that I know and like Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone.
Resident Evil series: the first one's terrible, second one's great, third one was good (even if it is just a combination of Day Of The Dead and Mad Max 2) and the fourth one was so immensely shit ;)
Shaun: one of the best. It's a great zombie film in its own right, chock full of references, has LOADS of great British comedy actors in it, and is very, very funny.
28 Days Later: Fuck that film. The acting's terrible, it's not scary, it has that fucking stupid plot twist where the creepy, rapey soldiers turn up, and most importantly: ZOMBIES DO NOT RUN, EVER. Running zombies = vampires that don't burn in the sun but instead twinkle like pretty diamonds.

For me, you absolutely cannot get better than George Romero's Day Of The Dead. Most people rate Dawn as his best work, and although it's good I can't get past the cheap 1970's special effects. The zombies are clearly just people in green facepaint. Consumerism yadda yadda. Day has the much more interesting argument of science vs. military action, has special effects that still haven't been beaten in a zombie movie (including a death scene that Shaun borrowed), really good scares, and Bub.
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Oct 28 2011, 11:15 AM
Zombie films are my favourite genre films. So I'm full of annoying opinions on the matter ;)

What's been mentioned so far:
Zombieland was.. fine. I might like it more now that I know and like Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone.
Resident Evil series: the first one's terrible, second one's great, third one was good (even if it is just a combination of Day Of The Dead and Mad Max 2) and the fourth one was so immensely shit ;)
Shaun: one of the best. It's a great zombie film in its own right, chock full of references, has LOADS of great British comedy actors in it, and is very, very funny.
28 Days Later: Fuck that film. The acting's terrible, it's not scary, it has that fucking stupid plot twist where the creepy, rapey soldiers turn up, and most importantly: ZOMBIES DO NOT RUN, EVER. Running zombies = vampires that don't burn in the sun but instead twinkle like pretty diamonds.

For me, you absolutely cannot get better than George Romero's Day Of The Dead. Most people rate Dawn as his best work, and although it's good I can't get past the cheap 1970's special effects. The zombies are clearly just people in green facepaint. Consumerism yadda yadda. Day has the much more interesting argument of science vs. military action, has special effects that still haven't been beaten in a zombie movie (including a death scene that Shaun borrowed), really good scares, and Bub.
28 days later scared me quite a bit - those camera shots with running zombies (which I find believable) are pretty freaky.

Also, just thought about Legend - they aren't quite zombies, but pretty close (need zombie emoticon here)
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I found this site pretty funny - "All Zombieland Rules"
My fave is the double-tap
http://www.zombielandrules.com/all-zombieland-rules/
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I liked Zombieland, though I don't remember it much...
Shaun of the Dead was great. They've never surpassed Spaced in terms of quality, but that film was pretty special.
I've got an opposite view to most on Resident Evil. I really enjoyed the first, and quite liked the second, but then the third was...ok...and the fourth isn't worth mentioning.
28 Days Later I liked too (I'm not very hard to please when it comes to films), and I thought 28 Weeks Later was ok too, though that might be cos my mate's brother was in it; he's a stuntman, and one of his 'roles' was as one of the running people that get sniped.
Of course, Day of the Dead is one of the very best. A brilliant zombie film with everything I want from such a flick.

Finally, I'd like to mention Zombie Flesh Eaters 2. It is not a good film, in fact it's bloody awful. But, it is so very very bad that it's good. Hilarious even. There's one bit that had me in stitches: the group of people are in an abandoned hospital, some of the men have searched around and found a crate. There is no reason at all for them to suspect anything is amiss - they've seen no zombies, there's no suspicious activity, everything is fine except that there's no people about - but when they open the crate and find there's guns inside, one of the women says 'good, we'll need those!' Fucking brilliant.
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I'm pleased to see so many people that appreciate Shaun of the dead, that was my first thought when I saw this thread title as it's such a great film. Amusingly when it first came out into the cinema my Mum was keen to go which I was a little surprised by (she's not keen on anything gory) but went anyway, she's watched a review of it but completely misunderstand the film so was a little shocked when the first zombie appears and stabs itself and considerably more so as the film progressed.

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Oct 28 2011, 11:15 AM
Zombie films are my favourite genre films. So I'm full of annoying opinions on the matter ;)

What's been mentioned so far:
Zombieland was.. fine. I might like it more now that I know and like Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone.
Resident Evil series: the first one's terrible, second one's great, third one was good (even if it is just a combination of Day Of The Dead and Mad Max 2) and the fourth one was so immensely shit ;)
Shaun: one of the best. It's a great zombie film in its own right, chock full of references, has LOADS of great British comedy actors in it, and is very, very funny.
28 Days Later: Fuck that film. The acting's terrible, it's not scary, it has that fucking stupid plot twist where the creepy, rapey soldiers turn up, and most importantly: ZOMBIES DO NOT RUN, EVER. Running zombies = vampires that don't burn in the sun but instead twinkle like pretty diamonds.

For me, you absolutely cannot get better than George Romero's Day Of The Dead. Most people rate Dawn as his best work, and although it's good I can't get past the cheap 1970's special effects. The zombies are clearly just people in green facepaint. Consumerism yadda yadda. Day has the much more interesting argument of science vs. military action, has special effects that still haven't been beaten in a zombie movie (including a death scene that Shaun borrowed), really good scares, and Bub.
Hmmm....Day is better than Dawn? Interesting. I must say, I agree with your characterization of the terrible special effects and makeup of the original Dawn, but isn't that part of the charm, so to speak? :)

As all have commented already, Shaun of the Dead was just great......Ed's line of "We're coming to get you Barbara" on the phone with Shaun's mom was so a great throwback to the original Night of the Living Dead.
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