DOTD
So . . . just watched the trailer for Dawn of the Dead. Can I ask what's Hollywood's new obsession with "super-zombies?" These things are not scary to me. They are panicked children in need of the ritalin . . . just like the real zombies you see every day. I'm not interested in this particular kink in genre conventions. You know what's scary about zombies? Their numbers, not their super-powers. It's the wall of necrotic flesh slowly encroaching upon your free space that's the terrifying element to these creatures, not how high they can jump or how quickly they can catch you. That doesn't interest me at all.
So I'm officially pissed off that the greatest horror movie of all time has been turned into Resident Evil. You know what? I take that back, because RE at least had some respect for itself. The zombies were pretty slow. From what I've heard about House of the Dead, though, I'm really sad for the state of this convention. I don't want any more super-zombies. They only make them this way to keep the ADD crowd interested. I didn't think much of 28 Days Later, either, as, in my opinion, those were not real zombies . . . just a lot of people who got a little sick and became really angry about it. "Rage" is an interesting catalyst for a transformation, and I think if it'd been promoted that way I'd have been more open to it, but I don't remember even the slightest ingestion of human flesh in that film, so, in my mind, they don't get to be zombies if their only real objective is to beat the shit out of you like an angry chimp. Not a bad movie overall, don't get me wrong, but not a zombie movie by the stretch of my own imagination.
Somebody get over yourself, and remember what it takes to scare the fucking shit out of me, please.
So I'm officially pissed off that the greatest horror movie of all time has been turned into Resident Evil. You know what? I take that back, because RE at least had some respect for itself. The zombies were pretty slow. From what I've heard about House of the Dead, though, I'm really sad for the state of this convention. I don't want any more super-zombies. They only make them this way to keep the ADD crowd interested. I didn't think much of 28 Days Later, either, as, in my opinion, those were not real zombies . . . just a lot of people who got a little sick and became really angry about it. "Rage" is an interesting catalyst for a transformation, and I think if it'd been promoted that way I'd have been more open to it, but I don't remember even the slightest ingestion of human flesh in that film, so, in my mind, they don't get to be zombies if their only real objective is to beat the shit out of you like an angry chimp. Not a bad movie overall, don't get me wrong, but not a zombie movie by the stretch of my own imagination.
Somebody get over yourself, and remember what it takes to scare the fucking shit out of me, please.
