Zombies 101

Make-Out with Violence is a moody, indie horror-romantic-coming-of-age-tale, and Maniac Cop 2 is, well he's an undead maniac and he kills cops!

Day two of our Easter Zombie Movie Marathon takes us to the year 2007, with two very middle-of-the-pack type of zombie films.

The cast is great, the concept is great, and the grit and grime of 80s New York is great.

The Final Chapter uses a darker palate with heavier shadows, more jump scares (seriously, a shit ton of jump scares), and a more frenetic editing style that usually undercuts the impact of the action scenes.

Well, that was traumatizing.

The storytelling is lean and economical, with the visuals giving you all the information you need to see what's going on psychologically with our main character.

It would literally take a concerted effort to fuck this up.

So Carol decides to walk the earth like Kane from Kung Fu, trying not to murder people, but failing miserably.

Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer is ugly and weird, does disgusting things, and is bloody, raunchy, and offensive.

Overall, Re-Kill is a solid action zombie film but it's fairly one-note when we're following the Re-Kill Cops (R-Division) in the field.

First-time feature film director Cody Calahan brings us an interesting take on the zombie apocalypse via social media in Antisocial.

It's incredibly refreshing to see some animatronic zombie beavers alongside some half-naked (and sometimes naked) young ladies covered in liberal amounts of blood and gore.

Thursday night was Action Zombie Night! No comedy, no micro-budgets, just dedicated action with serious (as can be expected) takes on the undead.

After the pain of last night, we decided to go with zombie comedies tonight and despite some misgivings and questionable reviews, both entries were pretty enjoyable.

For shits and giggles, we decided to have a Trejo Tuesday Two-fer and check out Danny Trejo's recent forays into the zombie apocalypse.

Ultimately, what we have here is a solid attempt at crafting a serious film about a serious situation.

This is all about Daryl, and Denise's amazing speech about strength, courage, and love is lost to the shock value of making sure Daryl suffers for the weakness of sympathy.

Instead of sacrificing her life, she ends up sacrificing more of her humanity to keep Maggie from doing the same.

The people in charge of The Walking Dead are not subtle with the ways they plant suggestions that a character is going to die soon.

Apocalyptic politics apparently translates most clearly as the "walking up to the biggest inmate on the first day of incarceration and trying to kill them."