When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.
I'm thinking I might make one to keep in the trunk of the car though. Might be nice to have hot water if I ever have to watch a Matthews compound for 3-4 days hoping to get the drop on Sergio Frenchi. - Neon Bolan
I really liked this series when it came out, but I find them hard to watch now. The camp and all that can get a bit annoying. Still, it's a good flick for once every 10 years or so. I also think it gets overlooked a lot. People always want to give tons of credit to Night of the Living Dead, but really, so much comes from this movie and this series. Sure, there had been some Italian flicks before it, but they were thinly disguised cannibal films for the most part. Zombies eat brains? Not until this movie, I think.
I'm thinking I might make one to keep in the trunk of the car though. Might be nice to have hot water if I ever have to watch a Matthews compound for 3-4 days hoping to get the drop on Sergio Frenchi. - Neon Bolan
Watched it again recently for the UK blu release and it doesn't hold up as well as I remember. Still fun though, and surprisingly lacking in gore for the most part considering what the zombies want to eat.
I'm pretty sure (like Neon) that zombies didn't eat brains until this film, and they haven't much since, but for how ingrained the notion is in pop culture shows the influence of the movie.
Not the first running zombies though, Lenzi's Nightmare City five years previously had them (and may also not have been the first.)
Yeah, running zombies definitely predate this. I know we've had this discussion with proof before the crash, but it predated even Nightmare City. I think there were a handful in Night of the Living Dead? I forget.
The impact of this movie on zombie culture is undeniable though. And it's a Dan O'Bannon movie, a guy who had way too big of an impact on western culture in general. I'd say in his own way, more than any other filmmaker, just because many of his ideas entered our collective unconscious, had babies and spread farther and wider. If we were to take films like Alien and Return out of history, along with everything spawned and inspired by them, I think we'd have a much different landscape.
RotLD 2 on the other hand, is kind of an odd movie. It's got the two actors from the first one playing similar but unrelated roles, as if they were some awesome comedy team, but it's also kind of the one and only kid's zombie movie. The entire series is teen-centric, but while the other one seems to be aimed more at the older teen highschool drive in date movie/horror geek crowd, 2 really seems more aimed at 12 year olds.
I'm thinking I might make one to keep in the trunk of the car though. Might be nice to have hot water if I ever have to watch a Matthews compound for 3-4 days hoping to get the drop on Sergio Frenchi. - Neon Bolan
DJBenz wrote:
For sure. I used it the other week when a co-worker was telling us that the Dawn of the Dead remake was the first film with running zombies.
What a dumb ass. Everyone knows it was 28 Days Later.
DJBenz wrote:
For sure. I used it the other week when a co-worker was telling us that the Dawn of the Dead remake was the first film with running zombies.
What a dumb ass. Everyone knows it was 28 Days Later.
