Love me a good Zombie movie...

[MEANZ06]

just watched the 2007 "28 Weeks Later"... good flick... :beer:

besides Zombieland and 28 Days what else is a "must watch" Zombie movie?

[kylebuck]

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[81.]

are you kidding me????

day of the dead
dawn of the dead
shawn of the dead
planet terror of grindhouse

tons of good zombie flicks and of course, teh walking dead on amc

[ApexOversteer]

I wrote one once... actually, I wrote it like 9 times, between rewrites and changes.

First it was set in WWI, and then I experimented moving it around from war-to-war. Back then it was called Bayonets And Brains, but it went through several titles, including World War Z, a decade before Max Brooks published his novel of the same title. Eventually it became The Boys Of Company Z

The basic idea was always the same, but really came to life in the WWII version... the back of the DVD would have been something like...

Europe 1944. Germany is losing its grip on the continent. Hitler needs more meat to throw into the grinder. Seeking his last resort The Fuhrer turns to the occultist priests of the Thule Society and under the Swastika rises a new army... OF THE DEAD.

The story follows a rag tag band of US Army Rangers, sent behind enemy lines assisted by the French resistance. Their job is to wreak havoc with the German supply lines and report enemy movement. The Ranger in charge starts seeing this mysterious Gypsy woman following them, but is she even really there? They get careless, and end up trapped in a tiny French town by what they think is a battle hardened German patrol, but turns out to be a group of young German boys, thrust into the war by Germany's rapidly disappearing war machine. That is when the zombie horde attacks.

Can the Rangers escape this undead army? Will the German boys help them? Will the superhot French Resistance chick take her shirt off and get them tigglebitties out?

It has some great moments in it. There was the gang on the run from the horde, coming to a POW camp that had been overrun, and inside the wire were Zombie Hogan, Zombie Schultz and Zombie Klink... Hitlers elite fighting unit were 258 Zombie Popes... Zombie Napoleon...

In the end the Gypsy woman arrives all Deus Ex Machina-style and weaves a spell that flips the undead army into reverse and sends them shuffling off to Berlin, to find the one that woke them.

The German boys, having learned a valuable life lesson, head off to defend Germany from the new threat about to consume the Fatherland.

Last shot in the film would be the Rangers, returned to their own lines, being debriefed, as a truck pulls up outside the tent. A truck full of caged and shackled Waffen SS Zombies...


In the end, I tore it apart, switched up the Zombies for "gremlins", set the first 20 minutes in a B-17 and called it The Thing On The Wing. Had a great William Shatner cameo, referencing his role in the Twilight Zone classic episode Nightmare At 20,000 Feet. Shatner would be the doctor tending to a mentally disturbed pilot, raving about the tiny blue Nazi that ate his plane. "No son, I've... seen them. I... believe you."

And let me tell you, these "gremlins" were cool. Imagine a 3 foot tall blue flying reptilian Gorilla with no eyes and the mouth of a Great White Shark, only their teeth are metal, sounding like a buzzsaw or a dentists drill as they chew through airplanes, tanks, and people. The Germans had given them little SS helmets and tattooed swastikas on their wings. There was even a goosestepping Colonel Klink gremlin with his tiny Klink cap and monocle, wrapping his wings around his body like those badass leather trench coats movie Nazis always wear.

The beauty was that it could have been a comedic thriller or, with a few tweaks, a full R-rated horror film...

I sent it to Peter Jackson... never heard back.