For the past decade or so, critics and viewers have been quietly contemplating the elephant in the theater: What is up with all the zombie movies? If you look back before the millennium, roughly 200 zombie-related flicks were made dating back to 1920, according to Wikipedia.org. However, more than 400 have been produced and released within the last 13 years. What could account for such a dramatic rise in this sub-section of the horror genre?
Zombies crave our brains and they get them because of their prominent present in pop culture. Zombies are in popular TV shows, novels, comics, video games and of course movies! With Brad Pitt’s big budget version of World War Z about to storm our theaters now is a great time to look at the best movies the genre has to offer.
Here is a Top Ten list of the greatest movie moments of James Franco, Jonah Hill, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson.
There is nary a person who has seen the trailer to the movie World War Z who hasn’t expressed some sort of confusion about what the plot revolves around. It is only after rifling through Internet movie catalogues and grasping a better sense of the implication behind the “Z” in the title that viewers get a clearer comprehension that the gears spinning the film involve a world being overrun by prevalently unorganized zombie militias. Considering the spate of apocalyptic zombie movies that have littered theaters over the past few years, you can understand why the editors would hide such an intrinsic piece of information from the viewing public.
Movie developments are abound this week on The Plot Hole with everything from The Expendables to Pirates of the Caribbean eking out their fare share of the spotlight, but we will hone in primarily on Smith-starrer After Earth and if the sci-fi adventure warrants its widespread hate.
Can Man of Steel help Warner Bros. and DC Comics gain as much fame and success as Marvel Studios?
The thought of violent, psychotic strangers instilling terror at the place we’re meant to feel completely safe is as unsettling a prospect as most could imagine. This specific sub-genre of horror is made all the more searing as in the back of most people’s minds we know it to be a possibility. When contrasting the likelihood of an eight-foot-tall hillbilly in a hockey mask posing a threat to that of an off-kilter burglar holding a gun on you and your family, there is no comparison when it comes to real life fear, and consequently that is the life-blood of the home invasion thriller.
This week’s Film for Thought, a brilliant suspense horror film that made Kiyoshi Kurosawa an international sensation.
The boys and gals of Vin Diesel’s crew tear up
After a string of underperforming films in recent years, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film After Earth opens this Friday. Could the Will Smith vehicle restore his reputation as a solid filmmaker?
