March 9th, 2009
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Dance of the Dead is a 2008 American independent zombie comedy, directed by Gregg Bishop and written by Joe Ballarini. The film featured Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick, Chandler Darby, and Carissa Capobianco. The plot revolves around the mysterious reanimation of the dead and the efforts of Jimmy, Lindsey, Stephen, Gwen and Kyle to save their local high school prom from attack.
The film had a limited theatrical release at Mann’s Chinese 6 Theatres on 13 October 2008, one day before being released on DVD. Originally finished in 2007, the film premiered at a number of film festivals throughout 2008 to mostly positive reviews. Notable premieres include the South by Southwest Film Festival and the Atlanta Film Festival.
Cast
- Jared Kusnitz as Jimmy, the film’s chief protagonist. Jimmy is a self-styled class clown without direction in life.
- Greyson Chadwick, as Lindsey. Lindsey is Jimmy’s on-again-off-again girlfriend and Vice-President of the Student Council.
- Chandler Darby, as Steven. Steven is the class geek. He secretly has a crush on Gwen. Is turned into a zombie after Gwen bites him while kissing and is killed when Jimmy blows up the school.
- Carissa Capobianco, as Gwen. Gwen is a popular cheerleader who suddenly finds herself without a date to the prom after her date ate bad spinach. Falls for Steven but is bitten by a zombie, dies turns Steven into a zombie and dies again when Jimmy blows up the school.
- Randy McDowell, as Jules. Jules is President of the Sci-Fi Club. Survives the movie.
- Blair Redford, as Nash Rambler. Leader of a band made out of stoners. Discovers that the dead like his bands music and survives the movie although one of his friends and fellow bandmates is killed.
- Mark Oliver, as Coach Keel. The school’s coach who seems to have some kind of military background. After meeting up with the surviving students he takes command and leads an attack on the school that erdicates the zombies.
- Justin Welborn, as Kyle Grubin. Jimmy’s enemy. He is found by Jimmy hiding behind his truck. He is killed when a zombie bites him in the neck. Turns into a zombie and dies again when he is beaten to death.
- James Jarrett, as Gravedigger. Aware of the events that have been happening. Decides to keep quiet so he can keep his job. Survives the movie and is left to clean up the mess after Jimmy blows up the school.
March 9th, 2009
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City of the Living Dead (Italian title: Paura nella città dei morti viventi) is an Italian zombie film from director Lucio Fulci. It has numerous alternate titles, such as Gates of Hell. It is the first installment of the unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy which also includes The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery. Fulci makes an uncredited cameo as Dr. Joe Thompson in the film.
Plot
After Father William Thomas (Fabrizio Jovine) hangs himself in a cemetery, the gates of hell are opened. Zombies with abilities of super strength, teleportation and levitation appear and start killing off people in town. Investigating reporter Peter Bell (Christopher George) along with psychic Mary Woodhouse (Catriona MacColl) travel to Dunwich, New England, and from the Book of Eibon learn that they must close the portal to hell before All Saints Day, or the dead will overtake the earth. During the movie, actress Daniela Doria actually vomited sheep entrails during the intestine purging scene.
March 9th, 2009
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City of Rott is a 2006 zombie-themed animated movie by Frank Sudol. The movie uses simple animation, like a 2D cartoon.
Plot
The story begins after the Earth’s water supply has been infected by a strange parasite known as Rot Worms. Rot Worm eggs were delivered by rain, and there’s no place on the planet that is free from the Rot Worms. Once hatched, they begin feasting on human flesh, turning their hosts into mindless zombies. The movie follows Fred, an old man with a walker trying to survive
March 9th, 2009
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Chopper Chicks In Zombietown is a 1991 comedy horror movie released by Troma, featuring Billy Bob Thornton.
The film is about an all female motorcycle gang named the ‘Cycle-Sluts’ who cruise into the isolated town of Zariah looking for a good time. Here an evil scientist turned mortician has been killing local townspeople with the aid of his long suffering dwarf assistant (“If god wanted you to do normal things, he would have made you look like normal people”) and turning them into zombies to use as labor at an abandoned mine. The mine is too radioactive after underground nuclear testing to be mined by living people. Although he later admits that the real reason he’s been doing it isn’t the money, it’s because he’s just plain mean.
The zombies escape after a curious little boy removes the lock to explore the mine, becoming the zombies’ first victim (“daddy, is that you? Aaaiiigh!” heheh, funny stuff). Around this point we meet another one of the parties involved, a bus-load of blind orphans, who are stranded just on the outskirts of town as their ride breaks down. Luckily their bus-driver always keeps an Uzi on the bus ‘for sentimental reasons’.
With vague memories of life to guide them, the zombies eventually find their way back to town and begin devouring live flesh. Going against the wishes of their leader and despite some rough treatment from the locals earlier in the film, the Cycle-Sluts ride to the rescue. Driven by a combination of personal history with Zariah, maternal instinct and possibly even a little true love the bad-ass moma’s start hacking off zombie heads using chainsaws, baseball bats, welding torches and a garrott.
In the final scene the Cycle Sluts use fresh meat to lure the remaining zombies to the town church, which they have packed with dynamite. They are now aided by the doctor’s dwarf who has decided that there are better lines of work than henchman. With all the undead on-board and the church sealed up the timer goes off and the church goes up in flames, zombies and all. The Cycle sluts are rewarded with a sack full of cash and induct the dwarf and several of the blind orphans as honorary Cycle-Sluts. They then ride out of town with some of the men folk in tow (their new ‘bitches’) and throw the sack of money to the wind.
Some cool trivia. Early in the movie the Cycle Sluts leader performs a song in the local bar (‘Do what your big mama told ya’). This is an original song written for the film and is pretty catchy (kind of reminiscent of Joan Jett). Another good piece of music is the zombies theme, which is almost like an eastern European marching hymn combined with a slide whistle and the sound of man laughing merrily.
This movie was filmed at a real town and the actual locals were somewhat unappreciative of the noise generated by the motorcycles and the film crew. Several locals actually fired pot-shots at the crew with live ammunition in an attempt to scare them, and Billy Bob Thornton was personally threatened with a knife held to his throat.
This movie features Billy Bob Thornton before he became famous and it also features former MTV veejay Martha Quinn.
March 9th, 2009
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Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (also known as Revenge of the Living Dead, Things From the Dead, and Zreaks) is a 1972 horror film directed by Bob Clark. This low-budget zombie movie is the second film of director Bob Clark, famous for later directing the films Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, and Porky’s.
Trivia
- Bob Clark revisited his zombie roots in Porky’s II: The Next Day when the boys from Angel Beach tried to set up a prank on Pee Wee, by having Steve (Rod Ball) dress as a ghoul and spring out at him in a cemetery prank.
- According to Tom Savini (who served as FX artist), Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things played all through the filming of the drive-in theater scene in Bob Clark’s Deathdream.
- Actor Bruce Solomon, who plays the ghoul named Winns also appears as Sgt. Raimi in another zombie movie titled Night of the Creeps.
- Actor Jeff Gillen (Jeff) played the Santa Claus in Clarks Film, A Christmas Story.
DVD
- Although previously available on VHS, a 35th anniversary special edition DVD was released in 2007 by VCI Entertainment.
- It features the uncut version of the film, a photo gallery, and a cast commentary.
- Briefly made available on VHS through Anchor Bay Entertainment.
March 9th, 2009
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Children of the Living Dead is a 2001 film, a sequel to Night of the Living Dead: 30th Anniversary Edition, which was a “special edition” of Night of the Living Dead with added scenes and a new score. George A. Romero, director of Night of the Living Dead and its subsequent films, had nothing to do with this movie. As such, the film was possible because Romero’s writing partner, John Russo, retained rights to make his own series of Living Dead films.
This film is notable only for Tom Savini’s appearance as a zombie killer in the beginning and for its near-unanimous poor reviews; the film itself is generally regarded as a bad imitation of the original, though many of the zombie rules are not followed. The actors’ performances and the quality of the movie itself, which contains almost no background sound, have earned this a D class from critics.
Cast
- Tom Savini as Deputy Hughs
- Marty Schiff as Deputy Randolph
- Damien Luvara as Matthew Micheals
- Jamie McCoy as Laurie Danesi
- Sam Nicotero as Dusty
- Heidi Hinzman as Candy Danesi
- Philip Bower as Joseph Michaels
- Tom Stoviak as Gregg Peters
- A. Barrett Worland as Abbott Hayes
- Justin Krauss as Steve
March 9th, 2009
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The Children (a.k.a The Children of Ravensback) is a 1980 low budget horror film. It was written and produced by Carlton J. Albright. The movie is about five children in a small town who, thanks to a yellow toxic cloud, end up being turned into bloodless zombies with black fingernails who microwave every living thing they put their hands on. The surviving adults of the town have to try to put a stop to them. The film is rated R for language, drug use, and gory violence.
The film is currently being distributed by Troma Entertainment.
Trivia
- One drive-in theater in Tucson, Arizona had a 6-mile traffic backup on the film’s opening weekend.
- The sound made when the zombified children are killed is made from the sound of cats in heat.
- Most of the actors and actresses in this movie are unknowns. In fact, this movie was the first and last role of four of the five children who acted in it. Gil Rogers (Billy) appeared on daytime soaps Guiding Light and All My Children, and Gale Garnett (Cathy) had a hit record in 1964 with “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine.”
Cast
- Martin Shakar John Freemont
- Gil Rogers Sheriff Billy Hart
- Gale Garnett Cathy Freemont
- Shannon Bolin Molly
- Tracy Griswold Deputy Harry Timmons
- Joy Glaccum Suzie MacKenzie
- Jeptha Evans Paul MacKenzie
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