I never believed anyone other than Takashi Miike deserved to adapt Hiroaki Samura's raucous, blood-drenched manga Blade Of The Immortal into a live-action film,
In Dark Forest, Boyer often has his characters sit around and tell stories to each other in scenes that come across as overly obvious attempts at creating verisimilitude.
Dawn of the Dead rejects all of those genre norms and anarchistically embraces the collapse of Consumer Culture despite having nothing to prop up in its place
And even beyond his Living Dead series, George Romero was always a maverick independent filmmaker taking imaginative chances every time he stepped behind the camera.
I can honestly say that there’s not a single film in ten years of Easter Zombie Movies that creates as much tension and tangible anxiety in me like Pontypool.
They wanted Night of the Living Dead in color, but what they got was a fable of ecological disaster, the collapse of authority, and gore that set a new standard in realism.
