“The Dead Will Walk In A Galaxy Far Far Away. When there’s no room on the deathstar, the dead will walk on Endor and eat some spicy ewoks, prefer Brains.” more @ /Film
I was very excited upon seeing this. My guess is that makes me one of the biggest nerds in the world.
Finally…
It’s true. Sometimes awful can be good. O.K. Maybe not good, but fun.
A few months ago my buddy Wes came over for a movie night and brought me a gem of a polished turd in the form of a DVD titled ‘Hard Rock Zombies‘.
This travesty was released in 1985 so one can pretty much guess (and correctly) that the hair, make-up and wardobe are going to be horrendous. The music, cinematography, writing, acting, direction and anything else isn’t much better.
The name ‘Hard Rock’ is rather misleading. This band’s music is as hard as Culture Club. Although the actors who play the band members do look like rejects from a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. That said they’re still quite pansy-fied. These are the type of guys my friends and I would have thumped outside the mall in 1985.
Here’s a clip you’ll never be able to extract from your brain:
Other than the things mentioned above what are a few of the things that make this movie worth watching a worth avoiding all at the same time?
Sounds horrid right? Yep. But it’s a must see.
Here’s another clip:
As 28 Weeks Later is about to be released interest in zombie films is on the rise again (pun intended). I was interviewed for this article at Movies.com. Check it out: Zombie Fever!
It used to be aliens; now, everywhere we turn, the undead are lurking! Whatup with our zombie-movie bloodlust? Plus, the 15 zombie movies we can’t live without!
By Joal Ryan
28 Weeks Later: Special Featurette - Six months after the rage virus has annihilated the British Isles, the US Army declares that the war against infection has been won, and that the reconstruction of the country can begin. In the first wave of returning refugees, a family is reunited — but one of them unwittingly carries a terrible secret. The virus is not yet dead, and this time, it is more dangerous than ever.
[source bloodydisgusting.com]
As “300″ continues its march through the worldwide box office, director Zack Snyder is mustering another sort of army.
Snyder and Warner Bros. are reteaming on zombie action-thriller “Army of the Dead,” based on an original story by Snyder. He’s producing with wife Deborah Snyder through their recently launched shingle, Cruel & Unusual Films, based at Warners.
It’s too early to say whether Zack Snyder is considering “Army” as a directing vehicle for himself. He will next direct “Watchmen” for Warner, based on the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons graphic novel about a group of retired superheroes who reunite to save the world from disaster. He’s set to begin lensing at the end of the summer, with the studio eyeing a 2008 release.
Snyder and Warner have set Joby Harold, who penned the upcoming “Awake” for the Weinstein Co., to pen the script for “Army.” Cruel’s Wesley Coller is exec producing.
Set in a quarantined Las Vegas in the not-too-distant future, “Army” revolves around a father who tries to save his daughter from imminent death in a zombie-infested world. (Snyder got his first taste of zombies directing the remake of “Dawn of the Dead” for Universal.)
Snyder, who has been on a press tour promoting the opening of “300″ domestically and overseas, told Daily Variety that he wants “Army” to have a sweeping, epic quality, along the lines of the highly stylized “300.”
“I feel like there hasn’t been a zombie movie on the scale that we want to do it,” Snyder said from the Bahamas, where he is shooting a commercial.
He said it’s too early to say how “Army” will be shot — “300″ was filmed entirely in front of a green screen — but that the project is likely to borrow some of the same techniques.
Cruel & Unusual also is developing action-fantasy “Sucker Punch,” which Snyder is co-writing with Steve Shibuya from an original story by Snyder.
Zack and Deborah Snyder are repped by CAA. Harold also is repped by CAA.
[source Variety.com - Warner, Snyders enlist in new 'Army']
Cool poster! Here’s the sneak peek trailer as seen on foxatomic.com:
This looks awesome. The budget’s slightly (read a lot) larger than 28 Days Later and it looks like they’ve put the cash to good use. I can’t wait to see this one.
The House on Dame Street is a short animated film from 1999 featuring a zombifeid head that’s a bit bitey and an extremely foul mouthed zombie. It’s available for download in the short films section on the director’s site, but you can watch it right here too:
a short story set in a world of pure chaos, of pure evil where people’s heads are slightly bigger and hardly anything is reflective because it takes too long to render…
…the secret of eternal life has just been found…
Director Ruari Robinson’s short, 50 Percent Grey was nomintaed for an Oscar, which although technically not starring a zombie the lead is quite dead. A very funny little flick and worth the download.
I’m about to sit down to watch his film Silent City as well. I love his stuff. I’m hoping to see a feature from him soon.
Check out the official Fido movie site for the usual stuff like a trailer, downloads and other info about this flick.
If a zombie falls on the mall escalator and no one is around to hear it does he still go "Rarrrrr"?
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