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    The Girl With All the Gifts (zombie type film)

    http://uk.ign.com/articles/2016/09/2...e-gifts-review

    Christmas comes early, not just for fans of zombie flicks, but anyone who appreciates smart, exciting genre films in general. Light on gore but heavy on brains, The Girl With All the Gifts delivers what it means to be living, undead or a new combination of the two, with originality and guts.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGkB_oWTe0
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    I read about this in Total Film recently. It sounds (and looks) like an interesting flick, putting a fresher spin on the zombie thing ... although, of course, they have to be runners. I think the zombies in this are caused by a version of that fungus that zombifies ants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    although, of course, they have to be runners.
    For some reason modern audiences seem to think that zombies need to be fast to be threatening. One of the charms of the old zombie flicks was the fact that the zombies were slow but persistent, tireless and present in ever increasing numbers, so their speed would not affect their menace. You could outrun them, sure, but sooner or later they would catch up with you and either get you or besiege you, as you would eventually run out of safe places to escape them. I am glad that the people who created The Walking Dead got the point and did not make their zombies to be Olympic athletes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDP View Post
    For some reason modern audiences seem to think that zombies need to be fast to be threatening. One of the charms of the old zombie flicks was the fact that the zombies were slow but persistent, tireless and present in ever increasing numbers, so their speed would not affect their menace. You could outrun them, sure, but sooner or later they would catch up with you and either get you or besiege you, as you would eventually run out of safe places to escape them. I am glad that the people who created The Walking Dead got the point and did not make their zombies to be Olympic athletes.
    Agreed all-round with this.

    In "The Girl With All The Gifts" they call them "hungries", so ... but yeah, even still, anything running at you screaming is scary in a kinda flat "BOO!" scare way. It's a basic human instinct to run when you're being chased ... but beyond that you're kind of up against a wall. The real creeping dread that gets under your skin - that's 'Romero style' zombies - the slow ones. Like you say, no matter what you do, sooner or later they're coming for you.

    Still, though, this flick looks pretty good - it got a 4/5 in Total Film.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    It's a basic human instinct to run when you're being chased.
    Yerp! (the one a 1m is glorious)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGW-cfP3CqE
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    Oh yeah, I remember you posting that video a couple of years ago - I'd do the same thing if I saw a big crowd running towards me - run the hell away!

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhwwEJXdinY

    Mark Kermode's review of the flick.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDP View Post
    For some reason modern audiences seem to think that zombies need to be fast to be threatening. One of the charms of the old zombie flicks was the fact that the zombies were slow but persistent, tireless and present in ever increasing numbers, so their speed would not affect their menace. You could outrun them, sure, but sooner or later they would catch up with you and either get you or besiege you, as you would eventually run out of safe places to escape them. I am glad that the people who created The Walking Dead got the point and did not make their zombies to be Olympic athletes.
    I've always felt that the living dead represented the death that comes to us all. If one is smart, you can avoid death (as in I won't walk down the motorway into oncoming traffic), but eventually it'll get you in the end. The slow dead lends that analogy more umph than the Usain Bolt versions, who are little better than the raptors in 'Jurassic Park'. Sure they can be scary, but it eliminates the slow building dread that is represented by the Romero type zombie.
    I'm runnin' this monkey farm now Frankenstein.....

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