Its been recently pointed out to me that I missed a crucial favorite movie in my movies blog. Shawn of the Dead. I must admit this flick should have been included in the list.
I dislike horror flicks and zombie flicks to me have always been along the lines of “Horror flicks for the stupid.” After all, if you can’t run away from a shuffling zombie, well you deserve to get eaten. Sheesh! And Shawn of the Dead is a hysterical slam of that genre. People are turning into zombies all around them and they’re so drunk and in their ingrained patterns they don’t notice for almost a day. And of course the only place they can think of to run and wait it out is The Pub!
It’s not for everyone because sometimes British Humor just isn’t… but I really enjoyed it as a comedy with the added plus of making fun of a genre I don’t like much.
On the opposite spectrum, I watched a zombie movie that was so “realistic” it was barely in the genre and it freaked me out so much I was up many nights trying to think of ways to “fortress up” my house! It was 21 Days Later. The plot being scientist were experimenting with anger management so they infected these primates with something that made them crazy mad and then the nutty animal rights kids broke in to “free” the monkeys. And out into the human population goes the Angry virus.
But these zombies… who didn’t eat, drink, feel pain and barely slept… also had no goal other than to bite and infect anything not already infected. When they moved, they moved at maximum speed and strength and it was scary. These zombie were damn hard to escape from or fight. Completely terrifying. And the virus infected you within 1 minute of a bite. Shudder.
So of these two movies, one made me laugh and I’ll enjoy watching it again, preferably in a bar! And the other one I’ll never be able to watch again! I was in “how to survive that!” mode for weeks!
Where’s my steel door?