When one thinks of the modern zombie film, one has to pay respect to its father, George Romero. It was his low budget, independently produced Night Of The Living Dead (1968), which laid the template for every film that was to follow. Previously, cinematic zombies would be those who fell under the spell of a voodoo practicing witch doctor. But from this film on they would be the animated dead, unstoppable in their single-minded quest to feed on the flesh of the living. Romero would be sincerely flattered by a host of immitators, but his original still retains a powerful hold on audiences today. Romero himself would further explore his zombie epidemic spreading across the globe through a series of sequels which also manage to work in a subtext of social satire.
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Whedon Assembling AVENGERS
If this happens, it could make a lot of people really happy and have a lot of people complaining. Deadline New York, the East Coast version of Deadline Hollywood gossip blog, is reporting that Joss [click for more]
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SDCC 2008: Odds And Ends Roundup- WOLFMAN, LAND OF THE LOST, More
The 2008 San Diego Comic Con is all over except for sweeping out a few remaining halls at the convention center, but a few final reports are still showing up around the internet. The Wolfman– [click for more]
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Stephen Chow Will Not Be Directing GREEN HORNET
Remember last September when we told you that Hong Kong comic director Stephen Chow was set to make his American film debut directing Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet? Forget we said anything. According to [click for more]
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