This is going to be a very simple post to explain my absence and the future of this blog:
1. I forgot my log in information. So...yeah. It was that simple.
2. I am still going to write to this. Tomorrow I am going to be hosting a Halloween party and the movie that I am forcing everyone to watch is Return of the Living Dead, which currently is my favorite zombie film of all time. That movie just gets so much right, but more on that later.
Right now, I want to take a brief moment to talk about Zombie. In fact, I'm going to review Zombie.
I recently got a chance to pick up a copy of Zombie from the mall on a trip to visit my extended family. Now, when I shop, I'm more of a window shopper. I always try to conserve my money, which mostly goes towards food and gas (and my gas gets eaten up really fast, as I commute to college.) So by chance whilst my fiancee and I were perusing the rows of horror films in the F.Y.E. I happened upon the Blue Underground DVD of Zombie. Needless to say, I was immediately smitten. However, when I happen upon something that I would like to purchase I tend to get somewhat of a guilty conscience. There was also a bit of confusion as to whether or not the box I was holding in my hands was a Blu-Ray edition or DVD. I'm not kidding, it wasn't giving us any indication which one it was.
But, I gave in and I bought it, and a few days later we popped it in to watch it.
Now, it wasn't my first time seeing it. I managed to watch it online a long time ago back when I had more time to fulfill my desire to watch horror films. I loved it back then, and I loved it the second time watching it as well.
The story begins with a boat that pulls into a New York harbor. The boat is abandoned, so the Coast Guard thinks. The two members investigating the boat get chewed up by a stowaway zombie, whom they don't properly deal with. The zombie disappears, and they walk away with some bites and scratches.
The boat, it turns out, belongs to the father of the main character, a girl named Anne. She becomes involved because she wants to know where her missing father is, and she entangles herself with reporter Peter West, who thinks there's an interesting story to tell with the boat.
Immediately starting the movie the average viewer will take note that a lot of the actors have been overdubbed. This kinda took me out of the movie a bit, as I wasn't used to it, but once I allowed myself to get lost in the story I eventually forgot about it. I'm not going to really go into too much detail about this movie. It's pretty famous in the horror world. Yadda yadda Lucio Fulci (props) yadda yadda special effects, yadda yadda beautiful cinematography.
The main characters' search eventually brings them to an island where the dead are mysteriously rising. Dr. Menard and a few others are investigating the phenomena, and he is Anne's connection to her missing father. But when the main characters arrive on the island, all hell breaks loose and things heat up pretty quickly.
Now, I'm afraid I'll have to go against the grain here and say that I'm totally not a fan of the zombie vs. shark thing. And no, it's not because the idea is completely silly, because I can deal with that. It's just that...the sequence goes on for far too long and its not too integral to the main story. Yadda yadda, the cinematography is impressive and beautiful, but come on, it's a film where people are being ripped apart and having their arteries severed by zombies. However, I'm not going to knock someone by saying that they can't appreciate how beautiful the cinematography is. When they aren't spending fifteen minutes pondering the scenery, this movie is gorgeous.
So what do I think of this film? I'm giving it a well deserved B. And please, if you are reading this blog and have anything you want to say, please say it. I want you to, really. I wanna hear what you think.
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