![]() When it becomes clear that London is crawling (or shuffling) with zombies, best buddies Shaun ( Simon Pegg) and Ed ( Nick Frost) lead a small band of survivors to the obvious stronghold: the Winchester, their local. After a horrific and mysterious ecological catastrophe, corpses are reanimated as zombies, and the key scenes take place at a shopping mall, as zombie-ism satirically portrays the spiritual undeadness of American consumerism.The movie is a new British comedy about clueless layabouts whose lives center on the pub for them, the zombies represent not a threat to civilization as we know it, but an interference with valuable drinking time. It is co-written by George A Romero, the man who virtually invented the zombie movie, and the Italian horror genius Dario Argento. Dawn of the Dead (1978)Ī zombie classic that fuses the US and Italian traditions of pulp-delirium and shock. It is a fable satirising colonial guilt, the inheritance of slavery and paranoid fear of “the other” – an almost poetic zombie adventure. It features a nurse who travels to a Caribbean island to attend to a plantation owner, and encounters voodoo rituals and reanimated corpses. This is one of the great zombie classics, and a creepy spin on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. A voodoo curse means that dead bodies roam freely, attacking the living. It is “Zombi 2” in the sense that it was intended as Fulci’s own sequel-style homage to Dawn of the Dead: a woman journeys to a remote Caribbean island on the trail of her missing scientist father. Lucio Fulci’s modern zombie classic is queasily horrible and was to become notorious in the UK as a “video nasty” shocker. This was the movie that gave zombie-ism a boost in the 21st century.īill Nighy in Shaun of the Dead. It was in the spirit of British postapocalyptic fantasies such as Threads and Survivors: animal rights activists have released chimps infected with a dangerous “rage” virus that passes to humans. 28 Days Later (2002)ĭanny Boyle made pioneering use of lightweight digital cameras and shot early in the morning in London to get shots of an apparently deserted capital about to be overrun by zombies. Roger Ebert hailed Braindead as one of the most disgusting horror films ever made, and also one of the funniest it contains the deathless exchange: “Your mother ate my dog!” “Not all of it.” 7. People suspected of zombie bites are treated unsentimentally, to say the least. Braindead (1992)īefore his work on Tolkien and the first world war, Peter Jackson created this much-loved and splattery zombie comedy classic about a zombie outbreak triggered by a rat bite. Night of the Creeps (1986)Īnother gruesome, yucksome mashup, with hints of sci-fi alien invasion, slasher horror and animal house antics to go with the zombie-ism.Ĭillian Murphy in 28 Days Later. Their idol plays a cemetery caretaker whose corpses are stirring. ![]() Not much liked in its day, this zombie horror-comedy from Michele Soavi (an apprentice of Dario Argento) now has a cult following, not least among Rupert Everett superfans. Some criminals watch a series of mysterious videotapes they find on a TV, before which sits the corpse of an old man. Tape 56 is the overarching “framing narrative” that stitches together the found-footage short stories in this portmanteau movie. A professor accidentally triggers an ancient curse, causing those buried at sea to rise from the waves and attack the wealthy folk thereabouts. Burial Ground (1981)ĪKA Le Notti Del Terrore, or The Nights of Terror, and a ripe example of Italian grindhouse zombie-ism. This zombie comedy stars Jesse Eisenberg as the nervy, obsessive-compulsive survivor of a zombieocalypse, who goes on the road with Woody Harrelson.
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