WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU… (Part 3)

Still on the “foreign” zombie kick…

Here’s a Japanese contribution to the genre. VERSUS is a zombie flick with the proverbial samurai works thrown in. Set in modern times (or at least the year 2000), this revolves around a group of gangsters who, unwittingly, are positioned right by the portal in the woods where all hell was about to break loose.

And it did…

The dead buried in the woods come alive to seek revenge. Swords and bullets galore!

To complicate the already grave situation, one of the gangsters had used the ground as a dumping station for all the doomed individuals whom he had killed.

Bad move… Now the buried are alive and smacking their rotten lips for revenge…

Okay… this next movie, 28 Days Later, may have the zombie purists gagging since it does not exactly fit the classical zombie mold. With the dead coming back alive that is. Instead a biological virus starts the transformation of the living into the dreaded gruesome monsters. Further, a different take on the classical zombie rule… These suckers move fast.

28 Days Later almost set the precedence for fast moving zombies. Maybe someone finally asked the question “Why can’t these folks get away from such slow-moving sloths in rotting human form?”

Good question… and I guess someone listened.

We can’t finish today’s blog without giving some credit to one of the newest zombie flick which I thought is a classic. ZOMBIELAND threw in the comedic dust in the gory storyline and the constant mixture of laughter and pursing of the lips with disgust was a unique experience. Again, it relies on some virus that transforms the living into the flesh-craving hellspawns.

Throw in Woody Harrelson, the Twinkie-craving modern-day Cowboy, and how can you go wrong! Hilarity to the hilt!

And the final battleground inside the amusement park is the perfect zombie-killing playground!

Still to be continued…

WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU (PART 2)

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Continuing the Living Dead saga from yesterday…

The page today will be dedicated to zombie movies from across the Atlantic.

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The next movie to be discussed is VIRUS.  A European make, directed by Bruno Mattei, this movie has a message within its story, unlike most of the zombie movies.  Just to put out the summary of all summaries out there… a chemical leak turns the staff and employees of an organization in Papua New Guinea into flesh-craving zombies.  Of course, the mishap spreads like a virus and before you know it… you have an island full of hungry zombies…

Oh yea… the message here was that if you don’t take care of the 3^rd World countries, they will take care of you…

We can’t talk about zombie movies without talking about LUCIO FULCI – the Italian horror maestro and his classics.  One of Fulci’s classic is CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (aka GATES OF HELL).

After a priest hangs himself in the cemetery, he opens the doorway for the living dead to be revived and cause havoc on this terrestrial plane.  What makes these zombies unique is that they can teleport and levitate too! 

Supernatural Zombies!

 A psychic and a journalist realize that this was just the beginning of the prophecy of the Book of Enoch and that it is up to them to plug the Hell’s portal by All Saint’s Day before the spirits of the dead take over the living…

Okay… you probably will deduce that I like Fulci when I bring up this next movie…

ZOMBI 2

ZOMBI 2 actually catapulted Fulci to a throne in the Horror Movie Kingdom.  The gore and violence in the movie was too much for the then Conservative British Parliament. 

An abandoned yacht drifting into the New York Harbor.  The problem was that the yacht was not exactly empty…

Here’s the trailer for the movie.

There are two unforgettable scenes in the movie.  A zombie fighting a tiger shark!  First one at that. 

And an eyeball being gouged out by a splintered wood…

Time to wrap it up again… More to come tomorrow…

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Continued from yesterday…

One night, I saw him standing by the doorway. Or should I say, I saw his silhouette framed across the open doorway. It was strange as the outline of the silhouette was blurred, almost hazy. I recognized that frame. Tall. Lanky and a little stooped at the shoulders. And then with his steely voice, he called out my name. I got up to welcome him and that was when I heard the yelp of my little pooch. See, my little dog has the habit of laying on my tummy when we go to bed and she had been startled with the sudden jerk of my body trying to get up.

I had been dreaming. Dreaming about my uncle waiting at the doorway. Dreaming about him calling me.

But it all seemed real. Very real. I had a sleepless session, for the rest of the night. The next morning, I had a phone call. It was a call from my Dad.

Somehow, I knew there would be.

Trying to sound brave and collected, he informed me that my uncle had passed away. My uncle had returned home from the fields around noon (his time) and had got into his rocking chair for a while to rest his eyes. Unfortunately, it was the dreaded eternal rest.

My Dad, in between muffled sobs, mentioned that my uncle had longed to see me one more time and had been badgering my Dad to make it happen every time he had called.

I guess my uncle got his chance. One last time.

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Supernatural or Super-Coincidence?  Sometimes, the
difference between the two is blurred and melded that you cannot differentiate. 
An incident that occurred to me a few years ago fell in this realm.  You be
the judge.

I had the pleasure of meeting my uncle, my Dad’s older
brother, about 20 years ago for the first time.  Distance (he lived in a
different country) and circumstances had made the meeting a delayed one for the
both of us.  Though we were meeting for the first time, our time together made
it look like we’ve always been together.  We clicked.  And clicked strongly.  I
guess blood is thicker than water, proving that proverb true… at least in our
instance.

Unfortunately, before we realized it, it was time for us to
part again.  Though we did not get to meet again, we always kept in touch via
the marvel of the telephone. 

A few years ago, something started bugging me.  Even
though, my uncle was always in my thoughts, he kept appearing in my thoughts
more frequently.  Too frequently which made me a little uneasy.  I had called
him several times since that uneasy mental intrusions, just to appease myself I
guess.  His voice on the other end of the line always assured me that everything
is alright.  But that nagging feeling…

To be continued tomorrow…

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