EZMM 2018 Day 9.2: George A. Romero – Land of the Dead (2005) Paul Brian McCoy April 3, 2018 Zombies 101 Overall, Land of the Dead is a solid entry in the series – the last solid entry, unfortunately.
EZMM 2018 Day 9.1: George A. Romero – Day of the Dead (1985) Paul Brian McCoy April 3, 2018 Zombies 101 Day of the Dead is bleak and nihilistic with an anarchist streak a mile-wide and it’s one of the single best zombie films of the past fifty years.
EZMM 2018 Day 8.2: George A. Romero – Dawn of the Dead (1978) Paul Brian McCoy April 2, 2018 Zombies 101 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
EZMM 2018 Day 8.1: George A. Romero – Night of the Living Dead (1968) Paul Brian McCoy April 2, 2018 Zombies 101 Every single film or television show you watch with flesh-eating zombies in it is either inspired by, or responding to, Night of the Living Dead.
EZMM 2018 Day 7.2: George A. Romero – A Retrospective Paul Brian McCoy April 1, 2018 Zombies 101 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.
EZMM 2018 Day 7.1: The Girl With All The Gifts (2017) Paul Brian McCoy April 1, 2018 Zombies 101 Risks have to be taken and The Girl with All the Gifts takes them and runs with them.
EZMM 2018 Day 6: The Battery (2012) Paul Brian McCoy March 31, 2018 Zombies 101 The majority of The Battery is Ben and Mickey on the road, traveling around, scavenging for food, and bickering.
EZMM 2018 Day 5: Wyrmwood – Road of the Dead (2014) Paul Brian McCoy March 30, 2018 Zombies 101 Wyrmwood is a chaotic grindhouse explosion of gore, violence, and jokes.
EZMM 2018 Day 4: Dead Snow (2008) & Dead Snow 2 (2014) Paul Brian McCoy March 29, 2018 Zombies 101 Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead is a gorgeous movie that hits the ground running, taking place immediately following the final moments of the first film.
EZMM 2018 3.2: Pontypool (2008) Paul Brian McCoy March 28, 2018 Zombies 101 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.
EZMM 2018 Day 3.1: La Horde (2009) Paul Brian McCoy March 28, 2018 Zombies 101 For just wall-to-wall action and hundreds of fast zombies, La Horde's hard to beat.
EZMM 2018 Day 2: Dead Set (2008) Paul Brian McCoy March 27, 2018 Zombies 101 I’m going to go out on a limb here and say Dead Set is one of the most inspired tributes to Dawn of the Dead ever put on film.
EZMM 2018 Day 1.2: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, or The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974) Paul Brian McCoy March 26, 2018 Zombies 101 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.
EZMM 2018 Day 1.1: They Came Back, or Les Revenants (2004) Paul Brian McCoy March 26, 2018 Zombies 101 The real horror of They Came Back is that despite the dead’s mysterious return, they never come back fully, and they are constantly preoccupied with leaving.