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Admit it – there’s at least one horror movie out there with a “gotcha” moment that made your heart slam against the inside of your ribcage. A sudden out-of-nowhere reveal, often accompanied by a loud noise on the soundtrack. Scenes like this have been making audiences soil their seats since the era of classic monster movies, and it’s not hard to see why. The response is hardwired into our brains; ...[Read More]

In the commentary for "28 Days Later," Boyle explained that Murphy "was very worried about doing these scenes naked, as actors always are," but then clarified that there was a closed set and a hard rule about not cracking jokes (in case they were misinterpreted). The short scene depicts Murphy on a hospital bed, fully nude, with the camera directly overhead. We see him get up and get something to ...[Read More]

Coming about five months after the December 2023 release of "Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire," "Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver" returns to the moon Veldt. In "A Child of Fire," the rebel leader Kora (Sofia Boutella) and her band of fighters seemingly thwarted the plans of the brutal, militaristic regime from the Motherworld to take over the crop of the moon, which is located in the ou...[Read More]

My conversation with Dan Evans-Lawes, tech art director for Dead Island 2 over at Dambuster Studios, almost gets off on the wrong sawn-off foot. "We did, at one point, have the idea of being able to freeze zombies – so you can get zombies wet and then [do a] liquid nitrogen type thing. I don't know if you've seen the best Friday the 13th film, Jason X?"I hold myself back from arguing the case for ...[Read More]

Home»Features»Civil War: How Alex Garland’s Dystopian Thriller Updates The Hollywood Zombie Movie»This column was originally published as part of our newsletter The Daily Show on April 17, 2024. Subscribe here. (We're awesome about not spamming your inbox!) Alex Garland’s Civil War is essentially a dystopian zombie movie stripped of its metaphors. What’s left are the physical building blocks of th...[Read More]

Japanese comedian Shinagawa Hiroshi has been set as the director of “Among the Dead,” the first project flowing from the co-production and co-financing venture between U.S.-based People of Culture Studios and Japan’s Yoshimoto Kogyo.The previously-announced project is an English-language, found footage zombie movie in which, following an apocalypse of the undead, one emotionally unstable man aband...[Read More]

This image released by AMC shows Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes from “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.” (Gene Page/AMC via AP) .sno-story-photo-area { width: 100%; margin-bottom: 0px; max-width: 100%; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } .sno-story-photo-area img { object-fit: contain; } .sno-story-photo-area .sno-story-photo-image-area { height: unset; max-...[Read More]