The Walking Dead

This new TV series looks really good. It's a similar setup to Danny Boyles '28 Days Later' film (man wakes up to find the world is overrun with zombies) but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The Walking Dead is based on a comic books series of the same name created by Robert Kirkman. The show has a couple of very prestigious exec producers behind it in the form of Gale Anne Hurd (producer of The Terminator & Aliens) and Frank Darabont (director of The Shawshank Redemption & Green Mile) so hopes are pretty high.

The 90 minute pilot is currently available here to watch online (streamed of course).

Happy Halloween!

I hope you're all having a great Halloween. I'm not up to much (as per usual) but decided to see what scary films were available to buy at the local used DVD shop. Last year I watched the special edition of the Shining and had a brilliant time, especially with the sound turned up and the lights off!

My search quickly ended when I found 'Street Fighter' for just £2. Its not Sonny Chiba's film 'The Street Fighter' (which is great fun) nor the pretty awesome Manga... its the 1994 Van Damme version! It's truly 'shocking', but obviously not in a Halloween way, just in a "how did they get this so wrong?" way.


Raul Julia (who plays the evil warlord M.Bison) died before the film was finished. For a bit of fun, try to spot the scenes where they used a body double for him and shout out "ZOMBIE!".



As I'm on the subject of Street Fighter, here's a classic scene from Jackie Chan's film 'City Hunter'. Enjoy!

Zombie maestro lays down the lore

Horror director George A Romero reveals why he made his latest zombie film - and why the undead can't run.

To read the full story (as published on the BBC News Entertainment site today) click here.

Fido (2006)

Happy New Year everyone. Here's the 1st post of 2008 and what a lot I've got to write about.

Firstly I've been watching a tonne of films over the Christmas holiday period, some great and some not so great!

I'll start off with one of the good ones.

Fido is a film about a boy and his zombie. Imagine a Lassie film, with a zombie adopting the role of Lassie and the concept behind the last few scenes of Shaun of the Dead, thats basically it. If it wasn't for the zombie element it would be quite a heart warming family film, it still kinda is... until the zombies start killing and eating people!

The film is set in the 50's after the great 'Zombie War', a time when the earth was plagued by a deadly zombie virus bringing back to life all of the dead. The zombies have since been domesticated thanks to a special flesh-inhibiting electrified collar and now work for the living as slaves (i.e; the end of Shaun of the Dead).

Fido is a zombie, a luxury must have household assistant to the Robinson family. He soon becomes a replacement father figure in the life of the young Timmy Robinson, his own father not interested at all in him, afraid of getting too close just in case he may one day have to kill him (if he or anyone else turns into a zombie).


What pleased me the most about this film is the almost unrecognizable Billy Connolly playing the lead role 'Fido'. He literally has no lines in the movie other than the occasional moan but expresses so much in his facial expressions (or lack of) and zombie shuffling, a brilliant and interesting role for the comedian.

Planet Terror (2007)

I won't pussyfoot around, Planet Terror is an absolutely awesome film and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes cheesy horror films, gore, guns, hot girls and did I mention it... gore!

Its infinitely better than Quentin Tarantino's boring and drawn out Death Proof (which to those who don't know was the other half of 'Grindhouse' - a feature film that contained two films bundled with four fake trailers, originally screened in its entirety in America).

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, this is probably one of the most entertaining films I've seen this year. I was laughing through most of the film, laughing at the ridiculous plot, the over exaggerated death scenes and characters such as the one played by Naveen Andrews (Sayid from Lost) who collects testicles and carries them around in a jar/carrier bag!

The female lead, Rose McGowan just looks stunning as Cherry Darling, the ex Go-Go dancer with ambitions of grandeur. As you can tell from the poster, Cherry looses her leg and has a machine gun in its place (introduced later in the film). This is simply fantastic and will be remembered in the future as a unique and iconic character.


The special effects are brilliant, well all the visuals are. Similar to Death Proof, this film has the same grainy/scratched look to it although it seems to work better here. The blood effects are some of the juciest I've seen, splattering everywhere. I'd like to think they used some old special effect styles instead of using just CGI, especially with FX veteran Tom Savini in the cast (he plays one of the cops).

This version of the film comes attached with one of the original, and probably best of the fake trailers - 'Machete' from the original Grindhouse (although Machete is now being made into a full length movie, can't wait to see that!).

Plane Dead (2007)

'Plane Dead' (a.k.a. Flight of the Living Dead) looks even dumber than the Samuel L. Jackson film, 'Snakes on a Plane' (although for arguments sake, "Snakes" was pretty enjoyable).

I'm sure I'll probably end up watching it!

Resident Evil 5

Its practically a film. Looks absolutely awesome!