EZMM 2021 Day 9: Blood Quantum (2019) Paul Brian McCoy April 6, 2021 Zombies 101 Blood Quantum satisfies all my zombie film cravings and is one of the strongest genre entries in years.
EZMM 2021 Day 8.2: [Rec] 4: Apocalypse (2014) Paul Brian McCoy April 5, 2021 Zombies 101 Anyway, [Rec] 4: Apocalypse is a perfectly fine zombie movie set on a boat.
EZMM 2021 Day 8.1: [Rec] 3: Genesis (2012) Paul Brian McCoy April 5, 2021 Zombies 101 Granted, [Rec] 3: Genesis doesn’t really break new ground, but it is solid at what it does.
EZMM 2021 Day 7.2: [Rec]2 (2009) Paul Brian McCoy April 4, 2021 Zombies 101 [Rec] 2 opens with the final shot of the previous film before shifting our focus to a new set of cameras.
EZMM 2021 Day 7.1: [Rec] (2007) Paul Brian McCoy April 4, 2021 Zombies 101 [Rec] is a film that puts people in peril and then steps on the gas, refusing to let up until the shocking final moments.
EZMM 2021 Day 6: Dead Shack (2017) Paul Brian McCoy April 3, 2021 Zombies 101 Dead Shack is not heavy on scares and the zombies are practically an afterthought, but if you like juvenile humor there’s a dark streak to this film that delivers in the end.
EZMM 2021 Day 5: Night of the Seagulls (1975) Paul Brian McCoy April 2, 2021 Zombies 101 While the ending of Night of the Seagulls isn’t a bombastic action-packed finale, I wasn’t as dissatisfied as many other reviewers.
EZMM 2021 Day 4: The Ghost Galleon (1974) Paul Brian McCoy April 1, 2021 Zombies 101 The Ghost Galleon is essentially another reboot/reimagining of the basic concept of undead, blood-drinking, flesh eating Templar knights with little to no relation to the previous two films.
EZMM 2021 Day 2: Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972) Paul Brian McCoy March 30, 2021 Zombies 101 Tombs of the Blind Dead is an artful and well-paced film that looks great but leans a bit too heavily into misogyny to reach its climax.
EZMM 2021 Day 1: Train to Busan Presents – Peninsula (2020) Paul Brian McCoy March 29, 2021 Zombies 101 Peninsula is bigger, a little dumb, but has a great Escape from New York/John Wick/Fury Road vibe that really resonated with me.
EZMM 2023 Day 8.1: Don’t Kill Me (2021) Paul Brian McCoy April 10, 2023 Zombies 101 Don’t Kill Me is a pretty uneven attempt to graft a number of well-established vampire story tropes onto the zombie genre that kind of works enough to sustain some viewer interest.
EZMM 2023 Day 2.1: The Sadness (2021) Paul Brian McCoy April 4, 2023 Zombies 101 The Sadness is one of the most extreme, disturbing films to reach a mainstream audience in memory.
EZMM 2022 Day 7: Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) Paul Brian McCoy April 17, 2022 Zombies 101 While I really didn’t like Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City very much, I want to give it a fair shake.
EZMM 2022 Day 6: Kingdom: Ashin of the North (2021) Paul Brian McCoy April 16, 2022 Zombies 101 Vengeance. That’s what Ashin is doing. That’s what she’s been doing from behind the scenes all along.
EZMM 2023 Day 9.2: The Last of Us S01E09 “Look for the Light” Paul Brian McCoy April 11, 2023 Zombies 101 This was the shortest episode of The Last of Us, clocking in at 43 minutes, but it was the most streamlined narrative yet.
EZMM 2023 Day 9.1: Evil – In the Time of Heroes (2009) Paul Brian McCoy April 11, 2023 Zombies 101 Evil – In the Time of Heroes gets special credit for bringing in Billy Zane to basically play a Jedi.
EZMM 2023 Day 8.2: The Last of Us S01E08 “When We Are in Need” Paul Brian McCoy April 10, 2023 Zombies 101 The best part of this episode of The Last of Us is the fact that Ellie saves Joel and herself in the end.
EZMM 2023 Day 7.2: The Last of Us S01E07 “Left Behind” Paul Brian McCoy April 9, 2023 Zombies 101 Nobody gets a happy ending in The Last of Us, from what we’ve seen.
EZMM 2023 Day 7.1: Grave Robbers (1989) Paul Brian McCoy April 9, 2023 Zombies 101 Clocking in at a tight 88 minutes, Grave Robbers doesn’t overstay its welcome and is surprisingly entertaining.
EZMM 2023 Day 6.2: The Last of Us S01E06 “Kin” Paul Brian McCoy April 8, 2023 Zombies 101 With every episode that passes, I’m more and more convinced that this should have been structured like a traditional series with more than nine episodes.
