There's scarcely anything better than a nice cut of juicy, tender protein to satisfy your savage hunger,at the end of a brutal day, but when you have a hankering for a healthy serving of carnage, you may want to reach for a zombie movie. I've been surviving on zombie cinema for as long as I can recall, and I highly recommend it. Call me a product of my environment, my cousin bought Fangoria magazine every time a new issue came out, and I would flip through the gruesome pages festinated by how it was done., it was the beginning of a sick and twisted love affair that continues to this day. If you remember the midnight showins for a movie called "Zombie", you're old, but I won't call you out. I think it was built up too much, they slapped an X rating on it for violence and they were passing out barf bags for each showtime. Us kids couldn't wait to see it. ( My cousin, my brother and I)., sadly we would have to wait. By the time I got to see "Zombie" it just felt like an hour and a half of over the top, Italian gore that wasn't executed to the standards of which I'd become accustom to. Meh. Feast your eyes on ten tantalizing tales, that did NOT disappoint, my top 10 is none of the calories, all of the guilt.
8. Resident EvilThis is a sci-fi horror film that's based on the uber popular video game by Capricorn. It did well at the box office due to the fact that they stuck pretty close to the games original cryptic Alice in wonderland theme. Deep beneath Raccoon city there was this genetic research facility or something other, called the Hive. it's a high tech building with a super defense system known as the Red Queen. When someone steals the T-virus, the Queen goes on the offense and shuts down the Hive, killing everyone inside to keep the virus from getting out. Alice and her partner are responsible for protecting the entrance to the Hive, but is sprayed with something that has a side effect of memory loss. Alice and her partner with abnisha, plus tactical team on a mission to find out why the Red Queen sealed the Hive,, plus mutant Zombies equals scary good times. and some of the most original and satisfying kills in Zombie cinema history.
5. Dawn of the Dead (1978)I remember seeing this this as a midnight feature at the 400 theater on Chicago's north side when I was fairly young. It scared me so bad I had a stomach ache and I was completely ruined mentally. I wanted to put this movie higher on my list based on those feelings, but the fact of the matter is, this is my scariest list to this date., and with the evolution of special effects and such. I had to push it down a bit. This was the second instalment of George A. Romero's zombie series, the follow up to "Night of the living Dead." This installment really seems to focus in on the collapse of society after the infection began. "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the Earth." These movies always have a beautiful sound bite, I love it. As everything breaks down and television broadcast come further and fewer in between, with hordes of zombies roaming the streets. two members of the Swat team join with a television network pilot and his girlfriend to escape Philadelphia. They notoriously find themselves taking sanctuary at a shopping mall. Need I say more? 4. The Evil DeadDemons or zombies? you may ask. Best answer "Both" It spreads from person to person, they die and come back., that's zombie enough for me. The Evil Dead was just horror in it's purest form, simple plot, instant results. Take a cabin in the woods, add clueless young adults and an evil incantation, agitate, sit back and watch the carnage. Who doesn't love that? 3. Return of the Living Dead
Every attempt to control the problem, just makes things worse. the frying pan to the fire to the flipping inferno. Everything about this movie was great, plus naked punk rock chick, cherry on top. 2. Dawn of the Dead (2004)This remake took everything that was scary about the original and ramped it up for the new generation. It did exactly what it was suppose to do and with the exception of the zombie birth, I loved it. This movie didn't just scare the kid in me , it scared the adult. The zombies were faster, the gore was more realistic, the human stories were more in depth, and they gave us the zombie celebrity look alike game. 1. George A. Romero's Day of the DeadI hardly have words for how bad this movie completely scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. It almost destroyed my life, I couldn't sleep right for months after seeing this movie. Day of the Dead made me barf on one particularly grizzly scene involving a not so sterty pair of legs.
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