Monday, February 25, 2008

What makes a Zombie Movie a Zombie Movie - Discussion 1

What exactly constitutes a Zombie Movie? Is it just brain-munching? Do the brain-munchers have to crawl out of the ground? Is it really the consuming of brains that makes a Zombie Movie a Zombie Movie? Well... we investigate...

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

The Un-Usual Suspect

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It is with a very heavy heart that I heard about the demise of the true and only Suspect Video, here in Toronto. Yesterday, a blaze ripped through downtown Toronto, eating up a half a block of old buildings and businesses, and swallowing up Suspect Video in its wake.

Zombie - aka Zombi 2 - aka Zombie Flesh Eaters - The Review


I give a chew-by-chew review of "Zombie", aka "Zombi" aka "Zombie Flesh Eaters", Lucio Fulci's 1979 attempt at unseating (or perhaps cashing in on) George Romero's dominance in the zombie movie market.

Does he succeed? Read on...

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Top 5 Zomcoms


When putting together a Top 5 or Top 10 Movie List (and in this case the sub-sub-horror genre Zomcom, or Zombie Comedy– dare I say, “Zomedy”), one must consider many factors.

Diary of the Dead - The Review

(No spoilers)

OK– this review is being written about one hour after watching George A. Romero’s “Diary of the Dead” — so it’s still fresh in my brain.

First impressions– right out of the theatre...

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The Best Zombie Scene Ever - Discussion 1

There is a challenge I like to extend to my film-fanatic friends, and that is this:

“What are the best movie scenes of all time?”

Seems easy. But I didn’t want the knee-jerk responses, like “Luke Skywalker destroying the Death Star” or “Frodo throwing the ring into the fires of Mordor” (I know, I know, technically he didn’t throw the ring in himself). These are truly climactic scenes, but are they truly “great scenes?”

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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Zombie Night

About 20 years ago, a good friend of mine and I started a tradition which has followed me from my home province of New Brunswick, to my current province of residence, Ontario-- and in particular, to the great city of Toronto.

It was originally called "Zombie Day", and it basically worked like this...

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Friday, February 22, 2008

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All you Zombie-masters out there -- UNITE!
Let's join our gnarly hands together in a show of undead solidarity!

Link to this Blog and I'll link to yours.

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Thursday, February 21, 2008



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