My obsession started in seventh grade with my best friend, Patrick O'Sullivan, after his older brother Danny caught a late-night broadcast of Night of the Living Dead on PBS (!!!! Right?). Dawn of the Dead came out not long after that, and we talked incessantly about how cool it would be to be zombie hunters.
I posted earlier this year about wanting very badly to see Romero's latest release Land of the Dead, but really being S.O.L. due to the facts that I have two infant daughters, and my wife outgrew her zombie phase many, many years ago (I believe after I insisted we rent Peter Jackson's Dead Alive for a date night). Thanks to Comcast and Karen's full Christmas-shopping-stopping-at-Appleby's-for-strawberry-daquiris schedule, I was able to rent Land of the Dead this past Saturday night.
I loved it, of course. It was classic George Romero with a budget.
If you do not love (or at least appreciate them) Romero's movies, there is nothing I can tell you here that will convince you otherwise. He is a director who knows his place in the world: he makes zombie films the way he wants to make them, with no pretension or compromise. They are entertaining and very darkly hilarious. So, see it! I highly recommend it!
On to my next order of business... In my current obsession with zombie films, I came across this (Just click on "watch" next to When Zombies Attack! It is amazing, seeing that it is on a very small budget, but the dedication of the filmakers is obvious throughout. So, watch, enjoy, and learn.
And, when you are finished with that, the home site has an add-on film that is just as funny as the mockumentary.
OK. This ends my yearly obsession with zombies... I think. I will leave you with this:
and return us to our regularly scheduled programming.
Merry Holidays, America!
