{"id":480,"date":"2009-07-31T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:34:57","slug":"shawn-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Shawn of the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its been recently pointed out to me that I missed a crucial favorite movie in my movies blog.\u00a0 Shawn of the Dead.\u00a0 I must admit this flick should have been included in the list.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I dislike horror flicks and zombie flicks to me have always been along the lines of “Horror flicks for the stupid.”\u00a0 After all, if you can’t run away from a shuffling zombie, well you deserve to get eaten.\u00a0 Sheesh!\u00a0 And Shawn of the Dead is a hysterical slam of that genre.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And of course the only place they can think of to run and wait it out is The Pub!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s not for everyone because sometimes British Humor just isn’t… \u00a0but I really enjoyed it as a comedy with the added plus of making fun of a genre I don’t like much.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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!\u00a0 It was 21 Days Later.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 And out into the human population goes the Angry virus.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

But these zombies… \u00a0who didn’t eat, drink, feel pain and barely slept… also had no goal other than to bite and infect anything not already infected.\u00a0\u00a0When they\u00a0moved, they moved at maximum speed and strength and it was scary.\u00a0 These zombie were damn hard to escape from or fight.\u00a0 Completely terrifying.\u00a0 And the virus infected you within 1 minute of a bite.\u00a0 Shudder.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

So of these two movies, one made me laugh and I’ll enjoy watching it again, preferably in a bar!\u00a0 And the other one I’ll never be able to watch again!\u00a0 I was in “how to survive that!” mode for weeks!\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Where’s my steel door?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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