Halloween Countdown, Day 25
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Here's my top five list of favorite zombie films:
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
28 Days Later (2002)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Re-Animator (1985)
(I'm not counting The Last Man on Earth from 1964, which I absolutely love, because technically those shuffling creatures are vampires, not zombies. So there.)
* For a multimedia exploration of the zombie menace, check out The Zombie Influx Project.
* In honor of National Zombie Day, I offer you two YouTube classics that are always worth revisiting. First, here's Jonathan Coulton's "Re: Your Brains:
And, of course, some Zombie Haiku:
Spooky Text of the Day: For some zombie-appropriate reading, we need look no further than the man himself, H.P. Lovecraft, and his 1925 story "In the Vault."
Excerpt:
There is nothing more absurd, as I view it, than that conventional association of the homely and the wholesome which seems to pervade the psychology of the multitude. Mention a bucolic Yankee setting, a bungling and thick-fibred village undertaker, and a careless mishap in a tomb, and no average reader can be brought to expect more than a hearty albeit grotesque phase of comedy. God knows, though, that the prosy tale which George Birch’s death permits me to tell has in it aspects beside which some of our darkest tragedies are light.
Read the complete story here.
Here's my top five list of favorite zombie films:
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
28 Days Later (2002)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Re-Animator (1985)
(I'm not counting The Last Man on Earth from 1964, which I absolutely love, because technically those shuffling creatures are vampires, not zombies. So there.)
* For a multimedia exploration of the zombie menace, check out The Zombie Influx Project.
* In honor of National Zombie Day, I offer you two YouTube classics that are always worth revisiting. First, here's Jonathan Coulton's "Re: Your Brains:
And, of course, some Zombie Haiku:
Spooky Text of the Day: For some zombie-appropriate reading, we need look no further than the man himself, H.P. Lovecraft, and his 1925 story "In the Vault."
Excerpt:
There is nothing more absurd, as I view it, than that conventional association of the homely and the wholesome which seems to pervade the psychology of the multitude. Mention a bucolic Yankee setting, a bungling and thick-fibred village undertaker, and a careless mishap in a tomb, and no average reader can be brought to expect more than a hearty albeit grotesque phase of comedy. God knows, though, that the prosy tale which George Birch’s death permits me to tell has in it aspects beside which some of our darkest tragedies are light.
Read the complete story here.
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Date: 2009-10-25 01:45 pm (UTC)But omg, it's still one of the scariest movies. That first scene in the church always gets me! Quarantine is another one of those infection movies that plays the whole idea of unchecked human rage to its scary fullest.
I love that Lovecraft story!
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Date: 2009-10-26 10:48 am (UTC)Quarantine is another one of those infection movies that plays the whole idea of unchecked human rage to its scary fullest.
Absolutely. Really chilling stuff. I just finished reading Frank Herbert's The White Plague, and that brought this home to me again. *shivers*
I'm so glad you liked the Lovecraft! :)
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Date: 2009-10-25 02:20 pm (UTC)Otherwise, the closest I've come to seeing an actual Zombie film is the Thriller video. What is WRONG with me?
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Date: 2009-10-26 11:10 am (UTC)Hey, the "Thriller" video counts in my book. It has Vincent Price and everything. :)
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Date: 2009-10-26 01:55 pm (UTC)I must watch me some Zombie stuff. I mean, at least Reanimator, y'know? Can't be skipping HPL, I'll get thrown out of Rhode Island.
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Date: 2009-11-01 05:44 pm (UTC)And thanks for the heads up re: The Tracey Fragments! I'm adding that one, as well.
Can't be skipping HPL, I'll get thrown out of Rhode Island.
No, no, no! ;)
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Date: 2009-11-01 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:21 pm (UTC)When I was last on Hollywood Blvd. at the Egyptian (Oct 17) there were lots of zombies walking the streets... I wonder why on that particular day. And I happened to recall there are some zombies in my LJ memories, hee.
http://cookiefleck.livejournal.com/43205.html
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Date: 2009-10-26 10:40 am (UTC)Fantastic stuff! I loved your picture of the Shauns of the Dead eating lunch. What a hoot. :)
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-26 10:43 am (UTC)Oh, and I promise, no salsa was misused in the making of this post. ;) LOL!
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Date: 2009-10-25 08:05 pm (UTC)Dead and Breakfast, hands down.
"Well aren't you handier than a pocket on a shirt?"
:D
Although I did love the re-make version of Night of the Living Dead with Tony Todd. It was the first thing I ever saw Tony in, and he was mesmorizing. Couldn't take my eyes off him and his kick-ass performance. And while it probably doesn't qualify as a film, that "Re: Your Brains" vid would probably round out my top three. Cause I laugh my ass off at it every time I see it.
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Date: 2009-10-26 10:44 am (UTC)I love Tony Todd. I think the first thing I saw him in was The Candyman, and that blew me away. Have you seen The Man from Earth, by the way? It's definitely worth watching.
"Re: Your Brains" always cracks me up. Pure genius.
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Date: 2009-10-26 10:47 am (UTC)Favorite Zombie film
Date: 2009-10-26 07:42 pm (UTC)Re: Favorite Zombie film
Date: 2009-10-27 10:55 am (UTC)In the Vault
Date: 2009-10-27 03:50 am (UTC)Thanks for yet another link to The H. P. Lovecraft Archive! I'm glad to see that all those stories I recently uploaded are going to good use. Happy Halloween!
Donovan K. Loucks
Webmaster, The H. P. Lovecraft Archive
http://www.hplovecraft.com
Re: In the Vault
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