Abso-zombi-lutely insane
posted by Don Z on October 16, 2007 at 12:54 pm in TV, Video, Pilot Season
Remember “Babylon Fields,” the zombie pilot that didn’t make CBS’s fall lineup? Some videos from the ill-fated pilot have surfaced today courtesy of TV Week and they are frigging nuts. One of the clips has 2 male zombies discussing having sex with normals!!! It is also a crime procedural where zombies ask the main character to solve their own murders — which sounds like “Pushing Daisies.”
However weird that sounds, the clips are actually kind of boring. A more silly visual approach might have worked better.
Comment by Tony posted October 16, 2007 at 6:12 pm:
Uh…no dude. I do not remember Babylon Fields, a crime/humor proceddureal featuring zombies that never had a pilot that aired. How very boorish of me. Sometimes you give your readers WAY too much credit for arcane TV knowledge. You are a special breed, indeed.
I have however, for some reason, been thinking alot about zombie movies. And zombies in general.
THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (the book) was a terrific true-life account of the Harvard ethno-botanist who isolated the compounds used by voodoo priests to create “zombies”; the movie really sucked, what with the scrotum-piercing nails and all.
The greatest zombie movie of all time IMHO remains NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
Rounding out a top three are SHAWN OF THE DEAD and 28 DAYS LATER, which I loved for the manic-zombie twist.
Comment by Fred Schroeder posted October 18, 2007 at 5:56 am:
Wow, “Babylon Fields” is not what I expected. It seems more like the 80s movie “Dead Heat” (remember with Joe Piscapo and Treat Williams?) than what I was hoping which was “They Came Back” the series.
If you like zombies movies you have to check out the French movie “They Came Back” it’s the most original take on the sub-genre I’ve come across.
Also Romero has “Diary of the Dead” coming out soon which looks … well bad … but it’s Romero … he made “Night the Living Dead” and “Creepshow.”
Comment by Tony posted October 20, 2007 at 5:11 pm:
I have struggled with going out to get THEY CAME BACK. The premise sounds very interesting, much in the way Herzog and Klaus Kinski managed to portray NOSFERATU as a pitiable (pitiful?) figure. That is to say, death can be a good thing.
So what is my hang-up? The language. I assume it is in French. That means, for me, subtitles (okay, if I must, but that means for me dedicating two or three viewings to even approximate the full impact) or heaven forbid a dub-job. Of course I could learn French…