When a horror franchise gets to its 10th film, it's usually time to hang up the hat. Movies like Hellraiser: Judgment didn't exactly wow fans of the '80s cult classic over 40 years later, but rare exceptions like last year's Halloween Kills (the franchise's 12th film), still made over $130 million at the box office. Day of the Dead: Bloodline, the third remake of Romero's celebrated Day of the Dea...[Read More]
Zombie films were all but dead until The Walking Dead debuted in 2010. But like the undead monsters, the hunger for more brought the ravenous fiends back into the mainstream. The Last of Us didn't just change video games, it was also the first great live-action television adaptation on HBO. Recently, Netflix also adapted an anime titled Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead into live-action—adding to i...[Read More]
Zombie movies have proven much harder to kill than actual zombies. Ever since George A Romero essentially created the modern version of the genre with Night of the Living Dead, the undead have continued to rise over the decades, mutating as they go, with HBO’s heavily praised The Last of Us being only the most recent example. (Clickers, zombies: what’s the difference, really?) It’s no wonder, real...[Read More]
JEFF HARRIS Weekly World News Studios in Vineland. When Greg D’Alessandro was searching for a place to establish a film production studio, a fellow producer suggested he take a look at Vineland, an agricultural community in the far southwestern section of the state. Vineland may be New Jersey’s most laid-back city. If New York is a town that never sleeps, you could say Vineland is a town that’s...[Read More]
Zombieland, set in the ruins of the post-zombie-apocalyptic United States, is, first and foremost, a comedy. The film, like Scream, has a set of rules described by Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) with onscreen titles that break the fourth wall. However, the zombie goodness is not left out with an exciting opening sequence, set to a Metallica song, that details funny but disturbing outbreaks as they hap...[Read More]
JEFF HARRIS Weekly World News Studios in Vineland. When Greg D’Alessandro was searching for a place to establish a film production studio, a fellow producer suggested he take a look at Vineland, an agricultural community in the far southwestern section of the state. Vineland may be New Jersey’s most laid-back city. If New York is a town that never sleeps, you could say Vineland is a town that’s...[Read More]
Writer-filmmaker George A. Romero passed away in July 2017, leaving a void in the horror film genre. The good part is that before he died, Romero had begun writing on the final product of his famous horror franchise. Titled Twilight of the Dead, George had described the project as the ‘Godfather of the Zombie’, or at least he thought his fans would think of it like that.Twilight of the Dead was an...[Read More]
Michonne, played by Danai Gurira, has been spotted wearing an intriguing new outfit on the set of The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live [embedded content] The Walking Dead wrapped up its eleven season run on AMC last year, but two actors who didn’t stick with the show for that entire time were Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, who played the characters of Rick and Michonne. Rick was flown out of t...[Read More]
New behind-the-scenes images from the upcoming The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live revealed Michonne‘s puzzling new costume. Per the Twitter account TWDU Promos, the pictures highlight Danai Gurira‘s fan-favorite survivor standing amongst a group of people as she looks around at her environment with concern. While she appears physically unchanged since the last time fans saw her, a major change...[Read More]
Add Bill Maher to small-but-loud anti-Barbie crowd. The HBO Real Time host posted a lengthy critique of filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s summer sensation, which just crossed the $1 billion global mark at the box office. “I was hoping it wouldn’t be preachy, man-hating, and a #ZombieLie – alas, it was all three,” Maher wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter). Here’s what Maher had to say a...[Read More]
Share this: The Walking Dead ended its eleven-season run last fall, but AMC has yet to fully say goodbye to its main characters. The Walking Dead universe has continued to live on after the franchise’s Chief Content Officer, Scott Gimple, announced a string of spinoffs, exploring other parts of the zombie-infested world. Most recently, The Walking Dead: Dead City ...[Read More]
George Romero’s Living Dead zombies are coming back to haunt audiences.