Zombies

REVIEW – The Crazies

Published on: 3rd March, 2010

Forty-one year old Timothy Olyphant has been struggling for over a decade to find the suitable vehicle for his charming-yet-somewhat demented persona. Gone in 60 Seconds and Dreamcatcher, his career has recently flirted with the mainstream with roles in Hitman and Live Free or Die Hard. With neither assassin nor villain bringing him major success, [...]

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REVIEW – The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue

Published on: 14th February, 2010

In the wake of the international success of George A. Romero’s seminal masterpiece Night of the Living Dead in the late 1960s, filmmakers around the world began to take a renewed interest in the tired zombie formula. Amongst those that would make an impact were Amando de Ossorio’s La noche del terror ciego (Tombs of [...]

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REVIEW – Day of the Dead

Published on: 24th December, 2009

Having avoided being stereotyped as a horror filmmaker after the phenomenal success of his 1968 feature Night of the Living Dead, Pittsburgh-based director George A. Romero had attempted to move in a new direction with such misfires as the disappointing comedy There’s Always Vanilla, before eventually returning to the world of the undead with 1978’s [...]

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REVIEW – Zombi 3

Published on: 20th December, 2009

Having previously directed four successful horror movies about zombies, the notorious Lucio Fulci made his undead swansong with 1988’s Zombi 3 (Zombie Flesh Eaters 2). Often dismissed by fans as inferior to his golden era, the movie has nonetheless gained a cult following due to its ’so bad it’s good’ appeal. The fact [...]

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REVIEW – Re-animator

Published on: 28th November, 2009

Having been dead and buried for several years, 1985 saw the revival of the zombie genre. Alongside George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead and Dan O’Bannon’s The Return of the Living Dead, Stuart Gordon made his feature debut with Re-animator, an over-the-top gorefest loosely based on a story by cult writer H. P. [...]

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REVIEW – Braindead

Published on: 28th November, 2009

By the end of the 1980s ‘horror’ had become a dirty word and so studios were re-branding their products as ‘psychological thrillers’ or ‘supernatural dramas.’ The zombie genre had also come to a standstill, with the final offerings of the decade including such misfires as The Dead Next Door and The Dead Pit. [...]

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REVIEW – Return of the Blind Dead

Published on: 27th November, 2009

Spain is hardly renowned for its classic horror. Whilst Jorge Grau’s zombie classic Non si deve profanare il sonno dei morti (The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue) had achieved critical acclaim and Jesus Franco gained a cult following, its horror scene had always been eclipsed by the more successful and prolific Italian film industry. [...]

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