Review: 28 Weeks Later (2007)

28 Weeks Later is the sequel to 28 Days Later... I have read and heard people say that it is incredible how a sequel can be so much better than the original, and they're right (sarcasm) it is unbelievable, I simply don't believe it.

The original was a story about survival and making human choices, and reflecting upon the end of the world scenario, but 28 Weeks is based on one single difficult choice, and I will admit they could not have chosen a better actor for the part (Robert Carlyle).   The movie starts with a couple who are holed up with a small group of survivors and after opening their doors to a child they become noticed by the horde outside, they couple becomes separated because the husband just wants to flee and the wife wants to rescue the child...  naturally in a show of cowardice Robert Carlyle runs away leaving his wife at the mercy of the infected, one could also argue that it was not cowardice but since the couple had their kids vacationing in Spain at least one parent should survive for their sake.

Take away Carlyle's excellent acting and you are left with a piece of trash, with no logic whatsoever, were infected human beings break through boarded up doors like they were balsa wood, 27 weeks after the original outbreak the US army is helping maintain a quarantine and is starting to repatriate people to England.

These are the things that just don't make sense to me

1) If you are one of the survivors that barely escaped would you not try to put as much distance between you and the infected, why would you move back?

2) Why would you bring your children back from Spain to live in the quarantine zone?

3) The kids leave the quarantine zone to go and find their old house, the military watches them leave but they do nothing to stop them, they later send helicopters and a strike team to their area... when they could have just yelled out, "hey, you can't leave the quarantine zone!!!"

4) They find an infected person that did not turn... an extreme rarity, but they just take a blood sample and do nothing, leave the person on a stretcher without guard let alone a scientist for observation... it's like Sir Galahad finding the Holy Grail and saying "well, I'll keep searching, maybe I'll find something really valuable, no use returning home JUST with the GRAIL"

5) The marines do not use their radios to coordinate.

6) When they are fighting a horde of Ragers they only use sniper rifles from the roof, but when they are following 4 humans they suddenly blanket the whole city with gas and have fully prepared haz-mat suit wearing marines with flame throwers.

7) And then, what pisses me off about horror movies, no matter how many turns and twists our heroes take all over the city, they always end up right next to the one zombie that also escapes the gas, the flame throwers, the blanket bombing...

The idea was good, but the movie as a whole is not up to par with the original.

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Review: The Last Man on Earth (1964)

Hello friends, how are you? thank you for your patience and I'm sorry I haven't written to you guys in a while, but between being a husband and daddy and on top of that having to remove the kitchen floor to put tile (for the 1st time in my life) I haven't had a lot of free time.

  That aside there are two things I want to get out of the way before I review this movie;

1- The tittle of this blog is Undead Obsession, so that really gives me ample freedom to write about any undead creature, but I really want to keep things in the realm of the Zombie, which to me is the most thought provoking.
2 - Though the creatures in this movie are given the name Vampires and have the same weaknesses as the vampires, the way in which people all over the world are infected and the way these "creatures" act resemble more of the modern day slow Zombie.

So you'll forgive me either way once you watch this great great film, you'll have to make up your own mind about what they truly are... perhaps if we have hybrid cars we can have hybrid undead.

The legendary Vincent Price plays Robert Morgan a disillusioned scientist who could do nothing to stop the end of humanity based on the 1954 novel "I am legend" later made into 2 other movies.

I though this was going to be another one of those classic bores, but I guess Vincent Price is not Legendary for nothing!!!, he really makes you believe his desperation. This is a must watch.

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News to "UN"die for #2

I'ts about time for another one of these...  News to "UN"die for!!!!

This is your friendly neighborhood zombie blogger, back for another post!!!

Since my last NTUDF a lot of things have happened, and a lot of things I wanted to happen did not...   :(
here's the good news, in March I had a record of 534 views!!!!,  I know that there are blogs that get millions of visit per month, but hey, 534 is a lot for me!!!

Also my readership base grew a lot since I've been doing Search Engine Optimization, I am now read in The Netherlands, Serbia, Israel, Spain, Brazil, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Ireland, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, China, Finland, Ukraine, Belgium, Portugal and today I got a hit from Estonia...  yep, I'm proud

I've watched and reviewed some great films, 28 Days Later which I'd seen before, American Zombie a mock documentary, and I still owe you my review of The Las Man On Earth Vincent Price's version of I am Legend a surprisingly well made movie despite it's from 1964.

About the Comic Book, that is something I have had some trouble with, it is very difficult to get people together for shooting the scenes so I'm thinking of doing it more as a blog than a comic book, that way I can advance the story and if the public likes it I can produce the drawings for it. Also since I've seen the poster for Aaah Zombies which says "Zombies Are People Too" I realized that the title for my comic book Zombies Were People Too would not sound as original and witty as I once thought, so ti's back to the drawing board with the name of the story.

AMC's The Walking Dead Season 2 - Ok, we all love this series, but when oh when is ti coming back?  As far as I know AMC has already signed for 13 new episodes in the new season, but the release date is still a little fuzzy, the most common idea is that it will air on Halloween like the first season, but now there is talk about it actually airing earlier, as early as July perhaps, who know? All I know is that I'm DYING to see it!!!!

Until next time, stay alive.

Review: American Zombie (2007)

"We're here, we're dead, get used to it"  when I started reviewing Zombie films I ran across some pretty horrible low budget films with repetitive themes, and  BAD ACTING, for a while I thought I would lose interest in the genre all together, needless to say I didn't, and I'm very glad I didn't...  I actually ran across some very interesting and different flicks and American Zombie is one of them...

  This is a smartly made mock documentary of the Zombie subculture in LA, it shows the day to day lives and activities of a group of Living-impaired individuals trying to figure out how they fit in with the rest of society, a lot of political parallels with activists groups and stuff like burning man...

  Very well made, organically acted, and terribly funny.

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The Coolest Free Zombie Game

 Hello everybody, and every-corpse, I hope your limbs are limber today...

  Well to the matter at hand, I have been searching for cool Zombie games to play "FREE" on the web, and I've come up with some horrible choices, the names get mixed up but they were all either too complicated and/or were all text based with minimal graphics...  then I came across this seemingly innocent game "Zombie Lane" and whoa, finally my search has ended, this game is very addictive, fun and since it's not completely gruesome I can even play it with my kids, in fact, my 3 year old is always asking to "kill dombiez"

  This Facebook game is pretty simple to follow, you have to kill zombies and in the meantime do various missions to spruce up what's left of your neighborhood, you can visit and help friends along the way, one of the coolest features is that you can craft makeshift weapons from the different items dropped by zombies you kill.

  I urge you to play it if you're a Zombie fan, and if you do try and find me... I'll be the guy in the yellow shirt kicking zombie but first and asking questions later!!!

Libya Offers Cease Fire - But Will Zombies Listen?

  Libya is now being watched by the world, civil unrest so they say...  but we know better right..

Qaddafi has been in power for about 40 years and he doesn't go away, his followers fear no bullets and harm and go around in mobs... or would they better be described as A HORDE?  and frankly it looks like he has been decaying for some time, have you seen him lately?

Anyways the forces of freedom are trying to see if he has any WMDs when they should be looking for ZMDs (Zombies of Mass Destruction) I mean those are the really dangerous ones, cause they multiply sending their message of endless consumption and destruction, think about a mall full of rich kids...  yeah it's that scary!!!

  Another thing that ties this scenario in the middle east with most Zombie movies is the fact that the president of the United States understands nothing of the problem, and is unclear on what to do, in fact the only thing he is doing effectively is showing the world that he is just as Zombified as the rest of us.

But don't just wait for the problem to come here, like our fearful leader, prepare for the coming attacks, get the Zombie Survival Guide today!!!!

Can Iodized Salt prevent Nuclear Japanese Zombies?

A lot is being said about the tragic Earthquake/Tsunami situation is the Japanese are facing, and now the dangerous levels of radiation emanating from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear reactor power plant leak.

Now people everywhere are stocking up on Iodized Salt and Potassium Iodide anti-radiation pills, even here in the United States West Coast, but are they really effective? or even necessary? the answer is probably not, in fact there is very little danger of radioactive poisoning to the rest of the world, it is my strong belief that the people that are buying up large supplies of these pills are merely doing it as a get rich quick scam, hoarding them to later sell to people in Japan (who may really and desperately need them) at a much larger price, in fact it is more of a possibility that the Radiation would turn the victims in Japan into Zombies than harm people on the American West Coast. 

So what should we really watch out for in the days to come, if you smell a cover-up it is probably because 1, a contaminated lizard has reacher a size that is equal to that of a large building (it's been known to happen in Japan) and the obvious and very sensible possibility of a Zombie Apocalypse, so what do we do? how do we prepare?

Well the second thing you should do is put into action any "Zombie Apocalypse Prevention and/or Protection Plan" that you have (an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure)

But first and foremost it to stop the outbreak at the source, if possible, before it reaches a point of no return... in other words send copious amounts of money to global giving dot com, the link is right bellow this paragraph...   I mean think about it if there is a Zombie Apocalypse your money won't be any good to you anyway, and until now you've only worried about fighting the ordinary run-of-the-mill walking corpses, can you imagine fighting Samurai Zombies?

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunami-relief/
(I don't mean to break the mysticism of the whole Zombie idea, but I want to make clear that this is actually an Earthquake/Tsunami relief fund) sorry...