Tag: zombies
Zombie Cat: The Tale of a Decomposing Kitty
Okay, so maybe Zombie Cat isn’t a “Book on Film,” or a “Book about Film,” or even a “Book Adapted from a Film.” But bear with me here. It is a book, I can assure you of that much, and it does, at the very least, make passing reference to one of the most beloved [...]
The Revenant
To start out by giving writer/director Kerry Prior a lot of credit, this is a truly unique zombie movie. Except, it’s not really fair to call The Revenant a zombie film. It’s a revenant film. Now, on the spectrum of undead creatures, a revenant is somewhere between a zombie and a vampire. Decomposing surely, but [...]
Re-Animator on Blu-ray
Even after 27 years, Stuart Gordon’s zombie-filled gore fest from 1985 still wows newcomers to the cinematically-realized world of H.P. Lovecraft’s Miskatonic University, where graduate student Herbert West (played with maniacal zeal by Jeffrey Combs) conducts mad experiments on the dead. Honestly, were someone to claim in my presence that Re-Animator stands as the single [...]
The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season
The second season of The Walking Dead picks up immediately after the events of the first, with Rick Grimes and his band of followers searching for shelter from the zombie hordes that plague the post-apocalyptic Georgia landscape. After the fast-paced, high concept events of the first season, the more dramatic, character-driven second season unsurprisingly stigmatized [...]
Dead Season
The seemingly endless torrent of direct-to-disc zombie films continues unabated, and Dead Season is one of the latest horrors to make its way to the DVD players of horror fans looking for diamonds in the rough. On the one hand, Dead Season doesn’t really offer anything that die-hard genre fans haven’t seen before. On the [...]
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