Comments on: All It Takes is Common Sense

By: allison

allison — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:33:50 +0000

what do you guys think when a director/author tries to change the zombie genre? i really liked 28 days later (or whatever many days it was) where the zombies were hella fast and not your normal zombies. and how people would get infected really quickly instead of a process that took hours upon hours. i dunno, i think that the book i reveiwed (dead eyes open) was also cool b/c it wasn’t what you consider to be a normal zombie book. i liked that the mental state of the zombies was not at all the norm. but it can also be dangerous to mess w/ the time honored tradition of the slow, half-wit zombie. case in point, shawn of the dead. i LOVE that movie mostly because it’s so funny, like when they chain the zombies up and keep them as pets or when they have them working minimum wage jobs. i think you can always tweak the genre but it’s sometimes hard to pull off. such as land of the dead, where the zombies are slowly getting smart to the humans’ use of fireworks as distractions. that was just plain retarded and didn’t work out well. nobody really believes that a zombie would be smart. and if they were, there’d be no zobmie plot at all. smart zombies = dead humans.

By: Dalton

Dalton — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:30:33 +0000

Actually, I’ve been thinking about it, and pretty much any genre can pull it off that’s not a comedy because comedies are the only ones actually trying to be funny. So if they fail at that, it won’t be funny. But if anything trying to be serious fails, then it won’t be serious and will be funny. That’s the best explanation I can give.

By: Guff28

Guff28 — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:13:47 +0000

I’ll admit that doing the same cliches can get tedious in zombie movies and books, but they never cease to be funny. The comedy is definitely one of the more popular aspects that keep the asses in the seats. No matter how fast or how far the humans run, in hand with how slow the zombies walk, they never get away. Despite how many guns and how much ammunition they have it’s never enough and they all manage to get bitten. You would think that having a gun as a weapon would out-do biting right? “Dead” Wrong. And the zombies always appear smarter too. Maybe feasting on flesh isn’t such a bad gig.

By: allison

allison — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:51:05 +0000

i totally agree w/ your last statement! i think that’s why Dead and Breakfast is such a great zombie movie. it’s funny, the dialogue is hilarious, the characters are all cliche and kinda of predictable…and yet it’s become one of my favorite horror movies of all time. that said, Phil the Alien is also a hilarious horror/sci-fi movie that is worth mentioning. both of these movies have plotlines that we’ve all seen a million times whether in text or on the screen. nevertheless, cheesetastic horror plots, when done well, are still enthralling and utterly enjoyable. why is it that horror is the one genre that can really pull this off tho? i think maybe it’s because if you’re really scared by something, the cheese makes it more accessible and a little less frightening. what do you think?