AMC zombie series from Frank 'Majestic' Darabont - The Walking Dead

ya ha

"clever" = "mormon"

How about zombies that start out slow, shambling monsters that eat flesh, but if they go too long without eating any their zombie metabolisms rev up, making them move faster and jerkier until they explode, infecting any living animal their effluvia touches? If they catch and eat something, it sates their systems and they cycle back down into slow shamblers.

dunno about significant additions, but i would really like to see someone make a smart, gory zombie-plague movie that doesn't just use "it's a zombie movie ffs!" as a justification for whatever ridiculous shit the genre seems to demand. don't know that i've seen one yet. 28 days later came closest, but seemed to want to operate outside the genre in a way that bothered me.

suppose you could expand the mythology at this point by dropping all the bullshit pseudo-medical justification and going back to the supernatural.

Zombies are reanimated spirits trapped in their decaying bodies who cannot be freed until they devour their loved ones.

I posted a list of recent films that have done something interesting with or expanded on the zombie apocalypse shtick, there's a lot of room to do interesting stuff if you don't slavishly limit yourself to the ground everyone else has thoroughly shambled over

les revanants - what if everybody who was dead came back to life, and they didn't want to eat us?

pontypool - language is a virus from outer space

deadgirl - two teenage boys find female zombie chained in basement of abandoned building, bad decisions ensue

the signal - a variation on the crazies-type apocalypse movie, but is way funnier and scarier than your average zombie flick because you don't know what to expect next

the end of the line - ditto

hi dere's 1st idea is good. or start fast when fresh, devolve into slow shamblers over time or without blood. really nail down the mechanisms of infection (if you wanna keep on with the bullshit pseudo-medical angle).

edit: god, and that second suggestion! someone should make that fucking movie.

most of these films I listed are not as "accomplished" as the walking dead, but they are also not as bland

There was an online comic strip that did a weird twist on zombies where they were technically still alive but not able to regenerate their bodily systems (pulmonary, cardiovascular, muscular, etc) without consuming working live tissue; the smart ones had to eat a lot of brains to remain smart.

you are very adept at producing scenarios for movies that you'd never ever watch

pontypool is great! really nice twist on the mythology. was impressed but repulsed by deadgirl. accomplished, but i didn't enjoy it much.

you are very adept at producing scenarios for movies that you'd never ever watch

I'd read the novelization, though.

(also I'm much more likely to watch a zombie flick than a slasher flick)

i used to think living in a zombie run world would be kinda cool, until i had a nightmare about it and realised it would be the most awful terrifying shit ever.

I was serious about zombies dancing in formation fwiw

i dont want any fuckin clever twilight-style twists on what a zombie is tbh

I am amused by the idea of a zombie version of Twilight! I should write it up so I can start making piles of money like Stephenie Meyer.

they're not actually gory they're just sparkly

i liked this show but it's definitely just going by the numbers at this point and it seems that they're just content to have a zombie television series. i'm looking forward to potential expansion beyond the influences of the show and i hope it doesn't doesn't descend into utterly lame plot devices.

I was serious about zombies dancing in formation fwiw

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/Jackson_popcorn.gif

"at this point" = 1 episode!

I am amused by the idea of a zombie version of Twilight!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Boyfriend

"at this point" = 1 episode!

it was a looooooooooong episode

well i mean at this point i don't see any real signs of trying to attempt anything really different, but at the same time i'm not really complaining.

have come to the depressing conclusion that most horror fans don't want anything really different

this kinda reminds me of shakey mo on the literary fiction thread - something can be interesting and different without having some crazy, genre-exploding formal element. not that 'the walking dead' is an example of this.

something can be interesting and different without having some crazy, genre-exploding formal element.

I'm not all "every zombie movie must be CRAZY and FREE", just think the walking dead fails on both of yr points

xpost Because the hospital zombies were all locked in the DO NOT DEAD INSIDE room.

― That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl)

That is a very interesting name for a room

― lol tea partiers and their fat fingers (HI DERE)

You don't have a DO NOT DEAD INSIDE room? Where on earth do you entertain visiting friends? Honestly!

man, you miss one fucking word...

DO NOT FUCKING DEAD INSIDE

every implication I can think of for inflection of this sentence is terrifying

http://www.jimbeeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/fido-dvd-art.jpg

Is this a deconstruction?

haha sorry I wasn't mocking the missing a word, I just wanted to make that joke...

DO NOT FUCKING DEAD INSIDE BERSERKER!

http://content7.flixster.com/question/53/96/65/5396657_std.jpg

i thought you were making fun of the fact that if you read the words in rows instead of columns, it said something like DON'T DEAD ENTER INSIDE

xp

if this show was more awesome it would have paused while the hero tried to parse that phrase until finally getting it

"don't be dead, enter inside?"

I don't die if I go in here

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/walking9.jpg

I did read it across at first and was all, huh?
DON'T DEAD OPEN INSIDE

CAFETERIA for extra lulz

I thought the zombies had written the sign as a lure, like those coyote-written signs to lure the road runner
FREE FUD HEER

lol

ya hah

haven't watched this series but I think the comic is just a rehashed zombie story. it brings nothing new to the table.

after reading enough about this series, the "new thing" seems to be a zombie story that continues. Kirkman said his reason for starting this was his disappointment in not being able to see what happens next. i'm totally fine with this approach, actually this is kind of what i want. a very classic zombie story that just keeps unrolling beyond what we typically see.

the pilot wasn't at all boring to me. this is actually very much what i wanted. a zombie story with a lot of quiet and discovery.

a very classic zombie story that just keeps unrolling beyond what we typically see.

otm!

I'm glad these are some OG Ramero-style zombies who just sort of amble haphazardly w/o being able to run. Zombies already have strength in numbers - giving them hyperkinetic musculature on top of that was just sorta unfair imo.

*Romero

Rambero

otm

I loved this show. I am not much of a zombie fan but this was pretty ace.

I really dug it too but I was amazed by a. how quickly our hero adapted to waking up in a brave new zombie world, and also b. his complete lack of curiosity as to how the fuck this happened. I'm having Lost deja vu where you're wondering why nobody asks each other basic questions about the situation. I would be badgering anyone within reach to tell me how long I was out, how extensive it is (Alabama? North America? northern hemisphere?) But they've got to pad this out, so I accept that.

Intrigued by the piles and piles of pristine military hardware lying about - somebody somewhere (hoping for a zombie Dennis Hopper with an eyepatch) is amassing a serious army if all this is just around for the taking. I'm sure they'll get to that at some point (zombie virus moved quickly through close-knit groups or some such).

Sorry if this has already been addressed - somebody was telling me this is a six-episode season. That right?