But zombie movies are so flexible; they can be scary or silly or both (and usually are both.)
Well, I'm not much for horror as a film genre either; I think Alien may be the exception.* It's not that I'm easily grossed out (I was once involved in a conversation about tuberculosis in an Indian restaurant that scared away a pair of diners behind us. I thought I'd asked a perfectly reasonable question . . . The waiter, however, brought us free dessert. We couldn't figure out if it was a thank-you or a polite bribe to get out and stay out). It's that even when I know all the blood's a special effect, it still bothers me emotionally. For this reason, I was both pleased and entertained to find this time-out photograph from David's death scene, in which Dylan Moran looks only mildly put off by his evisceration:
(There's a priceless sequence involving a functioning lawnmower worn as a breastplate (blade outward) by the embattled protagonist that at least rivals Ash's chainsaw prosthetic in Evil Dead 2).
Okay, look, I've never seen any of the Evil Dead movies either. Or Night of the Living Dead and its sequels. I have a brain that doesn't let go of images easily; I try not to make it any more unhappy than is daily necessary. What do you want?
*All right, and I really like The Shining: any movie that uses the medieval "Dies Irae" for its opening credits has my vote. But I think that's about it.
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Well, I'm not much for horror as a film genre either; I think Alien may be the exception.* It's not that I'm easily grossed out (I was once involved in a conversation about tuberculosis in an Indian restaurant that scared away a pair of diners behind us. I thought I'd asked a perfectly reasonable question . . . The waiter, however, brought us free dessert. We couldn't figure out if it was a thank-you or a polite bribe to get out and stay out). It's that even when I know all the blood's a special effect, it still bothers me emotionally. For this reason, I was both pleased and entertained to find this time-out photograph from David's death scene, in which Dylan Moran looks only mildly put off by his evisceration:
(There's a priceless sequence involving a functioning lawnmower worn as a breastplate (blade outward) by the embattled protagonist that at least rivals Ash's chainsaw prosthetic in Evil Dead 2).
Okay, look, I've never seen any of the Evil Dead movies either. Or Night of the Living Dead and its sequels. I have a brain that doesn't let go of images easily; I try not to make it any more unhappy than is daily necessary. What do you want?
*All right, and I really like The Shining: any movie that uses the medieval "Dies Irae" for its opening credits has my vote. But I think that's about it.