That was awesome! Though, Godspeed aren't really avant-garde - they're poli-post-rock, not at all avant-garde. definitely isn't one of their best songs but all their songs are good. Remember the Godspeed song towards the beginning of "28 Days Later" ?

The 28 Days Later music running through the talking points gave me chills.

I'd say this is my third favorite Zombie movie behind 28 Days Later and Shawn of the Dead.

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also what's not a comedy is some of the goofs at these off-budget agencies sit up all night and day thinking up responses to an Astral Plane invasion from Cthulhu (cuz that's where he/she/it lives you know), the 28 Days Later zombies, and re-discovery of the Ark of the Covenant.

WOLVERINES!

MGR what the fuck mate?

He polaxed a 7 stone girl from his vantage point of 16 stone lard arse half-riot gear. He could grab her by the scruff of the neck and drag her anywhere he wanted, there is no situation in which this would be a necessary response. Unless she was a zombie from 28-days later.

You often stand up for the "it's only a few bad police, it's not all of them, bad ones just get more attention" and you're often right where people ARE over reacting or not seeing the full picture, but you've overshot by 10 miles here pal.

I love that music from the 28 days later one.. "in a heartbeat"

My fave has to be 28 Days Later, it's soooo disgusting, yet Cillian Murphy all sweaty and angry and shit, grrr

That was very, very fast, too fast for a zombie, unless you're from 28 Days Later. Congratulations!

1. Aliens/Alien (slight preference to the sequel)
2. The Thing
3. Dawn of the Dead (original)
4. The Shining
5. Jaws
6. Day of the Dead
7. 28 Days Later
8. Night Watch
9. Evil Dead II
10. The Birds

Bottom 3:

3. Saw
2. Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003 remake)
1. The Grudge

Honorable Mention:

1. Jacob's Ladder
2. Army of Darkness (which I consider more comedy than horror, thus not being top 10)
3. Return of the Living Dead

Mission Impossible
Deep Impact
The Dark is Rising
28 Days Later
Big Fish
The Break Up
The Little Mermaid
Call of the Wild
The Color Purple
Of Mice and Men
The Usual Suspects
Breaking Point
Layer Cake
The Neverending Story
Hot Shots
Volcano
Blast From the Past
The Great Escape
Run Lola Run
The Sum of All Fears
Old Yeller

I can't stop laughing at "Black Snake Moan"...

It’s a good thing I checked the paper besides looking at MovieTickets.com. Instead of Sunday, the last movie on the list was shown Saturday night. I called the theater confirm the schedule just to be sure.

Before I review the Horrorfest, I wanted to mention the theater where I viewed the films – Hollywood 9. It used to be part of a chain called General Cinema. Some older folks will remember the music that used brushes on a snare drum with an electric guitar to announce “Coming Soon” and “Feature Presentation.” Then stadium-seating theaters were introduced ten years ago. They managed to kill a majority of movie theaters in this area. A local family bought this theater from the chain. It continues to run first-run films. We used to have a network of second-run film-theaters. They were good for when a film left the first-run-theaters. Plus they were cheaper.

Audiences have been small for the Horrorfest – maybe four to twelve people at most. Horror films are more fun with a full theater of raucous younger folks.

And now for my rankings . . . . I organized them from most favorite to least favorite. The films included for 2007 cover certain standard genres:

The Deaths of Ian Stone (R)
Ian Stone keeps dying and jumping to another life. Each time he interacts with the same girl. Before each death a clock suddenly stops. I like this one best because the film takes time to reveal the context of events and characters.

Mulberry Street (R)
This could have easily been called “Rat People.” The film is set in New York City in a rundown apartment building. Rats across Manhattan bite people spreading a contagious “rat virus.” Once bitten, people morph into rat-faced-like-humans. This flick has a style similar to “28 Days Later.” These carnivorous rat-people move fast and gnaw at their human prey. The newscast vaguely covers events as the infection becomes widespread. Other than the rats spreading the virus, there’s not much of an explanation for the virus’s existence.

Crazy Eights (NR)
Six young adults gather together after the death of someone they all knew. Twenty years earlier their parents left them at mental institution as guinea pigs for human experiments. The name given to their group was “Crazy Eights.” Prior to the group reuniting, they started having nightmares. A last request by the deceased takes them on an odyssey to locate a time capsule they made years ago. OK, that’s seven people; so what about the eighth one?

Borderland (NR)
Of the eight films this is the only one based on a true story. It is more consistent than some of the others. Three American guys in their early twenties cross the border into Mexico. In the course of seeking young women, they cross paths with drug dealers who perform Santeria human sacrifices. In this area near the border, the drug dealers have police intimidated. There is one cop, however, who helps two of the guys when the third one goes missing. He’s been investigating the drug dealers for a while. Also, They killed his partner.

The murders in this film are brutal. Sean Astin plays a bad guy – I was expecting him to yell for Frodo. He has a beard that helps a little with his baby face.

Tooth and Nail (R)
Set in the year 2012 (how Mayan ), civilization has collapsed because there is no more gas. People are forced to survive without technology. Two guys and a girl are exploring when they rescue a girl from an armed man. They bring her back to their group. Right away the group does not trust her. Then one night the group’s leader is murdered. Soon group learns that cannibals are intent on feeding on them. Considering the beginning of the film I expected more cleverness in the lines and the battles to survive. I would have thought the hospital, where they are living, would have some neat props and/or rooms to do battle in – I felt like more could have been done. The cannibals dress like medieval warriors. Axes, knives, swords, spears all make for a bloodbath. There are some later twists in the plot that redeem this movie a little. Otherwise, the film just has a body count.

Mike Madsen and Vinnie Jones ham it up a bit.

Unearthed (R)
Unless I missed it, I’m not sure what group of Native Americans the characters are descended from in this movie. Anyway a young male Native American is digging in a cave where a sacred burial ground is located. Unfortunately his efforts release a monster that his ancestors managed to knock out for many centuries.

A female Native American is sheriff. She’s still trying to live down a circumstance in which she was not able to prevent a young girl from being shot. She investigates a vehicle crash site involving a truck. She locates a piece of something that was caught in a truck’s grill. When a biologist analyzes this something, she determines that it is not of this earth and it has been collecting samples of living things.

As the body count adds up, the sheriff does her best to protect those left. In the course of things she becomes covered in some black liquid in the cave. This stuff ends up protecting her in a close encounter with the creature. She and the guy, who unleashed the creature in the first place, figure out that uranium is what they need to make the protective liquid. Someone else will have to comment on the science or lack of science involved here.

The creature behaves a bit like the ones from “Alien.” It is scarier when you don’t see it. However, it does move fast.

Nightmare Man (R)
A woman orders her husband a primitive mask with horns. She gets more than she bargained for in this tale. Although this one starts off hokey, filmed with video, it does improve with some plot twists. This couple runs out of gas on the way to a mental hospital. He leaves her alone while he goes for gas.

She becomes scared by a demon in the darkness. After a bit of cat ‘n’ mouse, she manages to run to a house in the woods. Two couples are enjoying each other’s company until this woman arrives frantic about what is chasing her and the pills she dropped in the forest in the dark. Listen when someone tells you that pills help control a demon inside. : )

Lake Dead (NR)
A grandfather to an incestuous family is killed. Three granddaughters want travel to see the property they inherited. Their father warns them not to go. The kids are mad at him because saying their grandfather was dead long before he actually was dead.

One of the girls skips the funeral and goes to Lake Dead by herself – bad news. Lake is the family’s last name. Anyway the two girls arrive with a couple and another guy. There is a shallow manmade pond on the property. Characters in the story refer to it as a lake.

So then the body count starts. The gene pool in this town is a bit shallow too.


OK, there are the “8 Films to Die for.” When I’ve seen the eight from 2006, I’ll do a synopsis and ranking of them as well.

"Marketing aimed at children"......in the U.S., it's a television facing any cornea. Television, is a window, into a twisted, frightening, world....feel the same way watching it, as someone without the rage virus in "28 Days Later" esp.,in election years......"must kill to survive!"

I thought was interesting that Boyle ("28 Days Later") made his zombies move fast rather than the typical zombies limping along - as is the case in so many other zombie films.

I have to say I was pretty disappointed by 28 Weeks Later as its predecessor was quite interesting. I really enjoyed 28 Days Later and feel it was a very believable take on a tired theme that was also an interesting analysis of human nature.