moonfleet

...by Dany Boyle, I've seen it yesterday for the first time, it's very powerfull, much harder in purpose than the last Romero, and very well done in intensive action, very original too.
M.

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Buffalo_Chuck

"Very original"? I hope you keep looking thru this genre's history. I haven't seen the TDF schedule - it's coming thru Pau, yes?

moonfleet

Original means diferent, rooted to "Night of the Leaving Dead" but different as it sets on England( an island) and by speedy actions, as zombies are not so slowed as usually represented, but I'm not intensly documented about all films on this headline, even if, in Pau town, I believe there are lots of "infected", but maybe it's just cinematogaphic paranoïa, I just hope so.....
I'd rather, in a more poetic way " I Walked With a Zombie" by J.Tourneur, do you know it ?
Also, "28 days..." is powerfull by its political meenings, and I like this point of view too .
M.

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DB7

I think Wyndham was more of an influence on Garland and they were seeking to make a sci-fi rather than zombie slasher movie. The opening sequence from the hospital bed to a deserted Westminister Bridge seems to be a nod towards Day of the Triffids.

The follow-up sans Boyle was far more of a pure action/horror, and had a very slim plot.

Edward G

I agree on this. Most Zombie flicks are just there for the cheap laughs and gore but this movie is a very original treatment of a well-worn genre. The surreal shots of a deserted London. The grim humour and nervous courage of the survivors. The considered use of music - especially the sequence where one survivor revisits his now home and reads the moving suicide note of his parents but also as a device for racking up the sense of terror in the well mounted attack scenes. As a spectacle and a drama it stays with you long after seeing the movie....

I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!

batman

I thought 28 Days Later was a steal from both Romero's films and ....Triffids. There were times when I thought I was watching a composite remake of two or three 'zombie films', I found it completely devoid of anything original.

I Walked With A Zombie is the best zombie flm ever, followed closely by Lugosi's White Zombie. Both films create an atmosphere of horror and dread without resorting to blood and gore. Marvellous film-making.

moonfleet

Yes, the scene when Jim revisits his home is really stirring....

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moonfleet

I diScovered after viewing "I Walked..." that T.Conway was G.Sanders's brother, but I suspected a voice link; suggestive and poetics directions of Tourneur/Newton are also the best for me, but I think that you are much involved, Batman, 'cause you are a T.Conway's fan ...
M.

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batman

It was the other way round. I was always a Lewton fan and first saw Conway in IWWAZ, Cat People and Seventh Victim which is when I became a fan. I love the way Lewton was able to use atmosphere and suggestion to create powerful scenes. I think TSV is one the most eerie films ever and one of the most beutifully shot.

moonfleet

Sorry, but I don't know what is TSV film is !
M.

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moonfleet

Lewton (and not Newton), of course...

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batman

The Seventh Victim. I often use the first letters of a film's title to save writing them in full all the time.

moonfleet

I heard of it but did'nt see it yet, it's about a sort of satanic congregation, no?...
one of my Tourneur's favorite is "Night of the Demon", even if D.Andrews is not a very expessiv actor....
M.

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batman

Tourneur didn't direct The Seventh Victim .... it was Mark Robson. Night of the Demon is a very good film and is one of my favourites too.

moonfleet

I know he didn't directed TSV, it's a sintax error...
M.

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