I Don’t See Why You Are Making Such A Big Deal Of This. I Just Want To Eat Your Brains.
The modern zombie have come a long way from their Afro-Caribbean history of Haiti and Africa. It started to take a bit of a transformation after George A. Romero’s 1968 film Night of the Living Dead. The popularity of this movie prompted the modern pop culture version of zombies and recently a slew of zombie films and video games. Engineered viruses have replaced voodoo in our post apocalyptic zombie filles futures and the modern day zombie would give Usain Bolt a run for his money.
Personally zombie films aren’t what they use to be as they just aren’t as scary anymore. Zombies basically have been beaten to death. Yes I did notice the pun. There has been a little variation in all fairness. Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later had the whole chase after you zombies, I Am Legend and 28 weeks later observed the psychological impact of zombies on the survivors, Quarantine and Diary of the Dead tried the whole point of view mockumentary approach. Even then though I feel zombies have past their prime. Yet another pun.
Zombie video games seemed like the natural progression. There is nothing like killing hordes of zombies with sub-machine guns and shot guns after a long day to blow off some steam. Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies, Plants vs Zombies and the ever popular Resident Evil is like cheap therapy. That’s why I’m glad the film version of Resident Evil turned out as well as it did. The first Resident Evil has got the be my most favourite zombie movie. Resident Evil’s zombies also take it one step further with mutations that make zombies from other movies look like adorable little chiwawas. The kind Paris Hilton keeps in her handbag.
The latest Resident Evil: Afterlife starring Milla Jovovich with new girl Ali Larter is set for release on September 10, 2010 and is the 4th film of the movie franchise. A new gimic has been added to bring zombies to the next level. Be prepared for blood splatter and un-dead body parts flying in your face as this was filmed using James’s Cameron’ s 3D Fusion Camera System. The same used in Avatar and several other 3D movies.
The movie previews gives you a little taste as to what’s in store. The ugliest zombies, awesome fight scenes and hopefully a conclusion to the story. Happy ending maybe? or is that asking for too much? How happy can the ending be anyway right? Everybody’s dead and the ones that are still around won’t be able to keep up a decent dinner conversation. So will 3D bring new life into the un-dead? Sorry couldn’t resist. Well it should at least keep it different for a little while and it won’t be just another zombie movie. I’m hoping in the near future cinemas will take it to the next level and install water squirters and spray you when it’s a particularly bloody scene or like leg grabbers to grab you when the zombies are chasing. I’d so go to that cinema. Until then though its hot babes killing the undead in 3D this September.
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