World War Z anyone?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ummm, "breast"...

[Hermit]

Ummm, "breast"...

"a breast"

The amazons of legend lopped one off so it won't interfere with their ability to operate bow and arrows effectively during wars.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ummm, "breast"...

"a breast"

The amazons of legend lopped one off so it won't interfere with their ability to operate bow and arrows effectively during wars.

Only got one mouth.

[Hermit]

Ummm, "breast"...

"a breast"

The amazons of legend lopped one off so it won't interfere with their ability to operate bow and arrows effectively during wars.

Only got one mouth.

And one penis. Good luck with motor boating.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ummm, "breast"...

"a breast"

The amazons of legend lopped one off so it won't interfere with their ability to operate bow and arrows effectively during wars.

Only got one mouth.

And one penis. Good luck with motor boating.

Ain't gonna let no minor obstacles keep me from having a sleazy time.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Anybody seen "Warm Bodies"?

No, I haven't. That one seems to have slipped under my radar.
Hmm..I see Rotten Tomatoes gives it a rating of 83%, so I think it'll be going on my list.

[Rum]

WWZ has terrible reviews, having just looked. I really wanted it to be good! Will wait for it to be on Sky. (Their film premiers are always the most recent cinema flops..)

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Well now. The Plague of the Zombies also scared the crap out of me as a young lad and led me to a long fascination with horror movies, aristocratic occultists and the living dead. I think the big thing about zombies and in fact vampires is that they represent us as our worst primal fears. Ourselves as Disease and Predators. There is also this marxist class thing going on about the Lumpen verses the conscious. (One of the reasons we have Dracula is that it's about an aristo who literally feeds on the blood of others.)

Zombies represent the fear of ourselves gone wrong, become slaves and thus the movies become allegory for whatever socio-political message anyone wishes to send.

I have to admit that I'd never really looked at the genre in socio-political terms before, but now you mention it, there would seem to be strong connection (an obvious one, in fact. I'm almost embarrassed to have over-looked it). I suppose the notion has always been there on a sub-conscious level though, without being fully crysalised. Why else would zombies choose to hang around shopping malls, etc?

Vampirism -to my mind, at least, is not quite as horrific as a plague of rabid, reanimated dead people. Sure, there's the class/slavery thing going on, but vampires seem to be depicted as sophisticated and suave by comparison. Indeed, there are quite a few elements to it that I think many people might actually find attractive, or at least erotic...The power of hypnotic seduction, the embrace and bite thing, etc. This would depend on whose take on vampirism we're talking about though, I guess.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

WWZ has terrible reviews, having just looked. I really wanted it to be good! Will wait for it to be on Sky. (Their film premiers are always the most recent cinema flops..)

Yep. I'll still be watching it, though.

Edit - I'm going to hazard a guess here that it's flopped because the whole scenario is too big and impersonal...that the film is on such a huge scale that it's impossible to invest in emotionally.
I'll be interested to see if this is the case...

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I always picture the zombies as Republicans.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Here's a thought...How about a film/story in which a zombifying infection/parasite is spread sexually?

[Rum]

WWZ has terrible reviews, having just looked. I really wanted it to be good! Will wait for it to be on Sky. (Their film premiers are always the most recent cinema flops..)

Yep. I'll still be watching it, though.

Edit - I'm going to hazard a guess here that it's flopped because the whole scenario is too big and impersonal...that the film is on such a huge scale that it's impossible to invest in emotionally.
I'll be interested to see if this is the case...

Dammit - I think I will go too! The bastard!

Yes - the reviews tend to say the big set pieces dominate, the characterization is weak and the intellectual/political elements (big in the book) are lost.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We're probably going to see it today. One zombie-fan and one "I've seen dead people" guy.

[Animavore]

Looks silly. The bodies tidal-waving down the streets look too compter-y.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Looks silly. The bodies tidal-waving down the streets look too compter-y.

Gee, a zombie movie that looks silly.