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]