Just a heads up.... Romero's Survival of the Dead on hdnet this month.

[Howard_Casto]

For those of you with cable, hdnet will have a one night (usually ends up being all week, but still limited) showing of George Romero's NEW zombie movie Survivial of the Dead before it hits theaters.  It is supposed to air the 26th.  Hdnet has had similar deals with lionsgate and magnolia pictures for some time now, but I've never mentioned it because it's usually an early screaning of some chick flick or artys fartsy piece of crap. 

Anyway, free zombies!

[Ginsu Victim]

It's horrible. I'm a HUGE Romero fan, and can tell you it's the worst one yet.

[TOK]

It's horrible. I'm a HUGE Romero fan, and can tell you it's the worst one yet.

Romero is pushing too hard to make a political statement now. They are neither fun or scary.
Exasperating is the best description I can think of for Diary Of The Dead.

[Ginsu Victim]

I actually liked Diary, but Survival is just awful (though I still enjoyed watching it).

He has always made political statements with his Dead films, all the way back to Night and Dawn.

[Howard_Casto]

Gotta be honest.... I've never watched a zombie movie I didn't like.  Seriously, such a thing does not exist.  Horrible acting?  No problem!  The cast will be mostly eaten by the end!  Bad plot?  Impossible!  Zombies eating people is all the plot you need.

Anyone who critiques zombie movies to the point to where they say some are "bad" must totally miss the point of a zombie movie. 

[rlemmon]

I love zombie movies ! I recently bought dawn, day and land an ebay for 11.00 new. (it was time to through out the vhs cpoys) I would have to say that IMO Romero has lost his edge. I felt that there was a good progression from night through land. Diary just felt like a rippoff of his own wok. The characters were dull and it just didn't keep my intrest.  Another problem for were the unspecial effects. Tom savini's makeup and effects were a very big part of what made the dead films so great. (and were pretty much ground breaking at the time) Land was missing a bit but was handeled pretty well by knb effects.

The final nail in its coffin were the bad cg effects. I cringed evertime i saw a cg blood spurt. All that being said
I will still see it but my hopes are pretty low.

Speaking of zombie movies return of the living dead is at the top of my list. I have seen it more times than i can count. To bad the sequels were so terrible. I Also really liked the dawn remake. To bad thy didn't make a worthy follow up to it.  

[Ginsu Victim]

Gotta be honest.... I've never watched a zombie movie I didn't like.

Then you haven't watched enough of them.

Horrible acting?  No problem!  The cast will be mostly eaten by the end!

Yes, but in the classic Romero films, I at least cared about the cast.

Bad plot?  Impossible!  Zombies eating people is all the plot you need.

But what about when there are barely any zombies?

Anyone who critiques zombie movies to the point to where they say some are "bad" must totally miss the point of a zombie movie. 

Bad = Survival of the Dead, which has horrible CGI, a terrible cast of characters, a plot that plays more like a western than a zombie film, and SPOILER:a zombie eating a ---smurfing--- horse.

[RayB]

A zombie movie can't suck?! HUH? 

Diary of the Dead was CRAP. It reminded me of one of those made-for-SyFy-channel type movies / direct to video store releases.

Speaking of, anyone seen Undead or Alive ? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795505/

It's also barely above "made for tv" quality but I got some chuckles out of it. Not too many zombie western comedies out there.

[AtomSmasher]

You should check out the movie Doomed.  The only reason I know about it is because my Uncle is in it.  The plot is they put a bunch of convicts on an island for a gameshow, and the one to get to a certain point first wins their freedom.... the twist is that the island is full of ZOMBIES!!11!1
It's quite bad.

[TOK]

There is a Norwegian zombie movie from last year called Dead Snow... The catch is that the zombies are also Nazi's.
Its subtitled in English, but not very hard to follow. This is a good cheesy one, with a few surprises.

It was available for streaming on Netflix a month or so ago, not sure if its still available instantly.

[RayB]

I'm pretty sure we're all aware of Dead Snow, given the viral video promoting it last year. 

[Howard_Casto]

You guys are movie snobs without a doubt.  I have watched and thoroughly enjoyed every single "bad" example you've posted.  Now were they as good as the original dawn and day of the dead?  No of course not, but they were stil pretty damn good zombie movies, particularly diary of the dead, which I liked a lot.  I also finished watching the day of the dead "remake" which was released in 2008 that every movie critic in the world deemed to be horrible.  Actually it was fairly good.  Mind you it shouldn't have been associated with the romero films in any way and as soon as they nicknamed one of the characters "bud" you knew he was zombie chow, but other than that pretty good. 

I will check out doomed and dead snow... I haven't seen those yet. 


I've seen undead or alive as well... hilarious!  Pretty sure there's a whole series of zombie westerns actually and I think I've watched em all.

[solidteezme]

+1 Dead Snow

What a great zombie movie!! a good one to watch during a sesh!

Also Zombieland is freeking hillarious in places.

[AtomSmasher]

+1 Dead Snow

What a great zombie movie!! a good one to watch during a sesh!

Just watched Dead Snow for the first time last night and I agree that its a great movie.