Movie Trivia: Somebody Get A Zombie Restraining Order For Zack Snyder, Please.

Seriously. I would love it–LOVE it–if some enterprising horror buff judge out there could put up a restraining order keeping Zack Snyder from going within fifty feet of a zombie movie. After the hash he made out of the Dawn of the Dead remake, it’d definitely be worth it. Especially since his NON-zombie fare like Sin City and 300 went so well. Well, about as well as can be expected, anyway, but still, wildly better than his zombie movies.

Which is why I started seething the second I heard about Army of the Dead.

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Movie Trivia: See It Where It All Started–Dawn of the Dead at Monroeville Mall

No, seriously! It’s TRUE! I can scarcely believe it myself, and if I were actually looking to go to Pennsylvania any time soon I’d swing by just for the sheer coolness factor involved here. You see, the mall where they shot Dawn of the Dead–the original, not that second-rate suck-farm that was the remake–is an actual mall. It’s called the Monroeville Mall, and it’s located in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.

It’s said that many of the original features–like wall displays, and of course the fountain–can still be found in full operational condition in the Monroeville Mall, and this lends a special and very unique opportunity to see a piece of horror film history first-hand. Which is why it makes especial sense to note that the HorrorHound Weekend crew will be putting on the first-ever showing of Dawn of the Dead at the Monroeville Mall.

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Movie Trivia: Romero’s Legendary “Bub” Comes Back From the Dead–Again??

This news is somewhat weird, but for Romero fans, it will absolutely blow your mind. I realize the headline somewhat gives it all away, but let me run it down for you.

Way back in the long-long-ago that was the 1980s, George Romero released what horror buffs thought would be his last zombie film, Day of the Dead. Though no one HOPED it would be his last, and indeed, it was not to be, it was still his last zombie movie for around about two decades. And in Day of the Dead, Romero introduced the “character” of Bub. Bub was a zombie that was being trained for domestication, and– far be it from me to spoiler!–it did NOT end well.

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Movie Trivia: Somehow, Pakistan Got Involved In Horror

And now these guys are in on it!You know, I’m downright baffled by this next piece of news. I’ve found a lot of places that are exporting horror titles, trying to get in on the grand gold rush that the direct to video horror industry has been since roughly 2002. And in that search, the atlas has grown steadily—Malaysia, Brazil, Chile…plenty of others. But this one just might take the cake.

Pakistan.

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Movie Trivia: Don’t Wanna Be an American Zombie!

Zombie rights now!Okay, I don’t live in California, but I kind of wish I did thanks to the news about American Zombie, a psuedo-documentary coming out on the order of fairly soon.

American Zombie follows four zombies–a convenience store clerk who longs for a career in publishing (and if you’re a convenience store clerk, you long for just about any other career), a florist trying desperately to reclaim lost memory, a hopeless romantic trying to accept her true nature as a flesh-eater (probably hard to get boyfriends when you’re contemplating the smell of their brains) and a political activist for “zombie rights”, kind of like the ones briefly glimpsed in Shaun of the Dead.

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Movie Trivia: Zombies Anonymous–Where You Understand A Zombie’s Pain

Oh, don’t we all?  Don’t we all.It’s clearer than ever that the zombie film has a whole new—unlife?—to it these days. Between all the various direct-to-video and indie installments and the dramatic and downright unnerving resurgence of the Grand Old Man of zombie cinema, George Romero himself, the zombie horror subclass is moving like Friday night in the morgue.

But gaining in popularity—this is the second such title I can remember hearing of lately—is the concept of shooting a zombie movie from the zombie’s perspective. This time around, it’s called Zombies Anonymous. With Zombie Apocalypse at the door and a war between the recently dead and the otherwise just getting fired up, a young lady named Angela just got killed by her insane ex-boyfriend. Now she’s dead…for a little while, until she comes back as a zombie. Now forced to straddle the line between the life she remembers and the unlife she currently inhabits, she’s going to have to get things figured out…and fast.

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Movie trivia: Day of the Dead Redux–Can It Possibly Be Good?

More fun with zombies!So the word is out about the Day of the Dead remake, and we’re all looking at it with something like trepidation. We’ve been here before, and we did not like what we saw. Anyone familiar with a little Zack Snyder travesty called Dawn of the Dead? Yeah, I figured you’d remember that one—you can put the torches and pitchforks down. It was just for illustrative purposes.

But anyway—the bar for Day of the Dead to not completely suck is surprisingly low, thanks to Zack Snyder’s complete ignorance about how a George Romero zombie movie is supposed to operate (They don’t run, moron! Have you ever seen them run? No. No, you have not.). The word, however, is that Day of the Dead will not be all bad. Most early reviews suggest that it will be flawed but not without charm, and at least mediocre. Which, given the way things have gone for Romero remakes—Night is king and Dawn is crap—actually makes some kind of horrible sense.

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Night of the Living Dead–Remakes Aplenty.

Remakes, remakes, remakes!When I heard that Night of the Living Dead, that great horror classic, had slipped into the realm of public domain I confessed to mixed emotions. I do believe in the right of an artist to hold his copyright for life…but at the same time, there’s something clean, and downright noble, about arguably the greatest horror movie of the 1900s going public domain.

If it can’t be in George Romero’s hands…then it’s well that it should go into OUR hands.

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Zombies of Night–The True Successor to 28 Days Later?

Get a real job and get out of my house, you grotty little wanker!!The Brits had one monster hit on their hands with 28 Days Later, and this spurred them on to try all sorts of movies for release in the states, including the spectacular career that spawned Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. But now, the term “successor” is being bandied around, and I hope we’re not taking it lightly, but Zombies of Night just might be the true successor.

The plotline is a real winner, by the looks of it—a young man with a failing eBay business living in the height of the foot and mouth disease epidemic wakes up for breakfast one morning to find his parents are now zombies.

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Retardead–Got Your Attention? Yeah, Not Surprised.

Zombies and special ed–a bad combination.The fact that Troma still exists is a fact that has me somewhat confused. Oh, sure, Troma’s been putting out over-the-top direct to video movies since there was a top to go over, and Lloyd Kaufman is pretty much recognized as the king of low-budget movie making. So much so that he’s actually got a how-to-make-movies guide out there called “Make Your Own Damn Movie”, and that speaks to a whole lot of experience.

What that experience will offer up this time around, however, is a real puzzler. It’s called Retardead—no nasty letters, please, that is the ACTUAL NAME OF THE MOVIE—and it’s about a mad doctor run amok in the Butte County Institute of Special Education. Armed with a faulty hyper-intelligence serum, mad Doctor Stern will raise an army of flesh-eating zombies, to which the FBI and the local sheriff’s department will respond to in a blood-soaked furor.

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