Zombieland trailer is live
I love zombie stories.
The first zombie movie I saw was the great Night of the Living Dead. The scene of the little girl the basement who kills and them devours her own mother is among the scariest I’ve seen. 28 Days Later and its sequel, 28 Weeks Later are two contemporary zombie movies I enjoyed. The notion of rage as an infections disease is compelling, and the opening scene of our hero wandering a deserted London is downright chilling.
As for books, I’m currently enjoying Robert Kirkman’s The Waking Dead series, a serialized graphic novel that Kirkman hopes will never end:
“…there is something I hate about each and every zombie move I’ve ever seen. There’s something about ALL of them that I just absolutely cannot stand. The end … I want a zombie move that never ends.”
This demonstrates what I love most about zombies. They’re so flexible. Shawn of the Dead played them for comedy, I Am Legend turned them into intelligent vampires,* and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is just what you’re thinking: Brain-hungry, undead monsters in Jane Austin’s world.
Zombieland, the new film from Ruben Fleischer, ads its own twist. Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg are two uninfected men who’ve figured out how to get by in a zombie-riddled world. They team up with Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin to kick ass and find … ready? … the last Twinkie in the world.
If the trailer is to be believed, this should be a funny, bloody shoot-em-up. I can’t wait! Click below to watch the trailer (no glimpse of Bill Murray yet, who plays a zombie).
*Or tried. That movie actually sucked.