Comments on: Abso-zombi-lutely insane

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:11:03 +0000

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…

By: Fred Schroeder

Fred Schroeder — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:56:14 +0000

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.”

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:12:27 +0000

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.