Zombies at ANU

I am one of those special people that refers to zombie movies, apocalypse films, and I Have No Mouth as ‘uplifting in the bad way’.
NotLD is an exercise in improper planning and execution, if only everyone had gone into the cellar, and killed Karen as soon as they saw her, things would have been so much better…
(I have a large collection also)

Ozhair said :

AngryHenry said :

And I’m still slowly moving forward with my plans to film my own Zombie epic here in Canberra next year 😉

Oooh, I’m so completely in love with that. I could offer assistance in a number of areas – feel free to get in touch if you’re doing it, I’d love to help.

I’ve been on a massive zombie binge of late, picking up weird Japanese zombie stuff (Wild Zero, Versus) and old English (The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue) and Italian (at that crazy Fulci, Mattei and Lenzi stuff) zombie movies.

I’ve read way too many bad zombie books – Max Brooks is about the cream of the crop, but there’s some absolute dross out there.

AngryHenry said :

Get yourself a copy of the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks… It’s a cracking read and cetainly turns a few heads sitting on the coffee table at my place.

Or Brooks’ follow-up, “World War Z”. Classic 🙂

And Jim, I wasn’t too fussed with Zombie Diaries, I thought it and Diary of the Dead were about on par, for different reasons. (Another person with a large Zombie DVD collection here 😉 )

However, I think Pelican may have been refering to the upcoming “Survival of the Dead” from Romero 🙂

And I’m still slowly moving forward with my plans to film my own Zombie epic here in Canberra next year 😉

Unless the rat patrol moves in first.

AngryHenry said :

Nothing embarrassing about a collection of zombie movies. There are also some delicious zombie video games out there.

Get yourself a copy of the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks… It’s a cracking read and cetainly turns a few heads sitting on the coffee table at my place.

When the day of the zombies arrives just remember the password and your welcome at my rural compound.

Nothing embarrassing about a collection of zombie movies. There are also some delicious zombie video games out there.

Get yourself a copy of the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks… It’s a cracking read and cetainly turns a few heads sitting on the coffee table at my place.

Pelican Lini said :

The buzz about Romero’s next zombie film is solid with its combination of living dead and high tech communications.

You’re a bit late there, ‘Diary of the Dead’ was released ages ago … and was a big steaming pile of crap. Much better was the small independent British movie ‘The Zombie Diaries’ that came out around just before ‘Diary of the Dead’.

I have an embarrassingly large collection of zombie movies on DVD.

And Granny said, “Let there be fun!” and there was fun. Magnificent orange zombie fun!

Let them enjoy it. Plenty of time later for being grown up and boring.

Apart from Let The Right One In, vampire stories have turned into lame tweenage romances and I believe zombies will rule the horror genre for sometime to come yet.
George A Romero was way ahead of his time in 1968 with the original Night of The Living Dead with its doco-style and negro lead role and I’ve never seen consumerism skewered better than in the original Dawn of the Dead.
Fair dinkum, I still feel like I’m in that movie every time I visit a shopping mall.
Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead were disappointing in comparison with the first two but still had plenty of good ideas in them.
And of course there’s been innumerable other z movies in their wake, some of them excellent ie Shaun of the Dead and 28 Days Later.
The buzz about Romero’s next zombie film is solid with its combination of living dead and high tech communications.
I believe the genre has dominated over recent years because they suit the times with their riffs upon the theme that the enemy is us.

Art said :

They were at it today. Oversize plastic guns with plastic bullets, orange banners and blindfolds. Absolute stupidity running through the Arts area of the campus at peak times knocking people over to play zombies. Idiots should be back in pre school.

I’d suggest that if you want to get the message across, it probably isn’t such a great idea to simultaneously implicitly admit you’re studying arts and then pull the I R SO SERIOSE AND MATURE COMPARED TO THEE thing.

Personally I’m a lot more comfortable with people running around playing zombie than the way a lot of ANU students act come Thursday nights.

We should be back onto vampires

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20081108-9999-1n8vampire.html

This explains why my work’s out of brains.
or nurf guns even!

They were at it today. Oversize plastic guns with plastic bullets, orange banners and blindfolds. Absolute stupidity running through the Arts area of the campus at peak times knocking people over to play zombies. Idiots should be back in pre school.

If only the Zombie holocaust actually did happen. I would be in my element.

(Is saying ‘all the rage’ still all the rage? I’ll have to ask Cory Doctorow…)

Pfft – zombies. If the blogozeitgeist is anything to go by then steampunk, ukelele-playing ninja-pirates are all the rage.

Jivrashia = meh.

I’m sure there’s a place and time for such activities… like pre-school.

honeybee said :

Sounds pretty cool to me. 😉 I obviously wasted my undergrad years in the library.

I think I wasted mine at the Refectory 🙁

Zombies are still cool! I’m jealous.

Sounds pretty cool to me. 😉 I obviously wasted my undergrad years in the library.

What happened to Assassin we played when I was at ANU. You just got a copy of your target’s student card and a water pistol to shoot them with. After you made a ‘kill’ you would then go after your target’s target and so on until only one person was left. Nowhere was off limits. Some people took that game way too seriously.