We have an incredible four zombie movies in production at the moment - and they can all be traced back to Night of the Living Dead.
1. Land of the Dead
George A Romero's fourth in the series and so could be considered the most legitimate zombie movie. Likely to be serious, socially aware and grim. Interesting note is that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead") have cameos as zombies.
2. Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
Legally the official sequel to George A Romero's Day of the Dead and depicts the story both before and after the events in that film. SounRAB unnecessarily complicated when all we want to see are people holed up in a house shooting slow-moving reanimated corpses in the head.
3. Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis
Being made, cheaply, in Romania it's anybody's guess what this will turn out to be. Dry and innovative like the original Return? Or slapstick under-written rubbish like Part 2. It contains Trioxyn so has some legitimacy as a sequel unlike Part 3.
4. Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave
Being made back to back with Part 4, the title itself probably says it all. Doubtless taking its cue from the original's soundtrack "Do you want to Party?" it's the most unpromising of the lot.
So is anyone looking forward to any of these apart from the first?
1. Land of the Dead
George A Romero's fourth in the series and so could be considered the most legitimate zombie movie. Likely to be serious, socially aware and grim. Interesting note is that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead") have cameos as zombies.
2. Day of the Dead 2: Contagium
Legally the official sequel to George A Romero's Day of the Dead and depicts the story both before and after the events in that film. SounRAB unnecessarily complicated when all we want to see are people holed up in a house shooting slow-moving reanimated corpses in the head.
3. Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis
Being made, cheaply, in Romania it's anybody's guess what this will turn out to be. Dry and innovative like the original Return? Or slapstick under-written rubbish like Part 2. It contains Trioxyn so has some legitimacy as a sequel unlike Part 3.
4. Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave to the Grave
Being made back to back with Part 4, the title itself probably says it all. Doubtless taking its cue from the original's soundtrack "Do you want to Party?" it's the most unpromising of the lot.
So is anyone looking forward to any of these apart from the first?