Zombie movies

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

#68 Hood Of The Living Dead 2004

A heart warming tale of a scientist's love for his recently gunned down brother.

Sucked. Slim on plot, acting and special effects.

After his brother is shot, a scientist working on a cellular regeneration formula tries to revive him with the untested serum giving birth to an undead fiend who attacks and kills the men who shot him.

5930m

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

#67 Resident Evil 2002

Pretty good.

A viral outbreak kills then reanimates all the employees at the Umbrella Corporation's Raccoon City research lab called "The Hive". A few remaining staffers and a small military team go back in to figure out what went wrong and try to shut down the computer system which they think has gone insane, but is really just trying to prevent the spread of the virus. Along with the regular zombies they run into doberman zombies and what I am going to call a super zombie which has a long prehensile tongue and can climb walls.

5844m

Sunday, July 09, 2006

#66 House Of The Dead 2 2005

This one first aired on tv on the SciFi channel. I'm not sure how they could have played it on a basic cable channel with the amount of nudity and violence. The sequel is pretty loosely tied to the first one, based on two characters from the first film. The first problem for me is that one of the characters from the first movie who died appears alive in the second. The second problem is that one of the characters that survived the first film appears in this one but played by a different actress.

A university professor experiments on a captured zombie to figure out the secrets of bringing the dead back to live. Unfortunately his experiments go awry and the campus is overrun by the results. The military is sent in to retrieve a blood sample from the original zombie in order to help create a vaccine.

5743m

#65 House Of The Dead 2003

This is one of those really sucky movies that for some reason I end up watching everytime that it is on tv. It is poorly made, a weak storyline, bad acting and all around not so good. But, it sucks me in and I can't get away. I also do this with Die Hard movies and The Italian Job.

A group of partiers are late to an island rave and discover that the party was interrupted by hordes of the undead. A shipwrecked Spanish priest experiments with reviving the dead in order to live forever.

There is one song in the entire song that gets played over and over, which gets very annoying. In one very long drawn out scene the group is trying to fight their way through a graveyard to get to a small building which is defensible. The graveyard is like 100ft but the scene takes about 10 minutes and the same song plays the whole time. They do that annoying thing where they slo-mo spin around the actor as they are fighting. Plus somehow they all happen to know how to fight and shoot well.

5653m