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Post by Werner Mueck on Sept 7, 2006 19:34:50 GMT -5
See, I use background noise when I draw. I don't want the movie or show I have on to be something I haven't seen before or I'll get too distracted (and I like it to be a movie or show because I like to take short breaks and watch it for a few minutes). I also get distracted if it's a movie I really really like so I usually put in movies that I've seen several hundred times or I pop a tape in (taped off of HBO or whatever) and let it run. So to answer your question, I haven't really watched House of the Dead more than once. I've listened to it, watched it in pieces, and kept an eye out for the zombie gymnist more than once  For the record, I shut it off about 2/3rds of the way through when I watched it last. |
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Post by Splattercat on Sept 7, 2006 20:32:38 GMT -5
Well, interestingly enough, you're right about Zombies not running and screaming (sans Return of the Living Dead, but in that one they were also unkillable)...Up until 28 Days later came out which was followed by Dawn of the Dead '04 and Doom (both featuring running and screaming zombies)...From what I see, 28 Days Later offered a new, and apparently popular, twist on the "modern day zombie"....  |
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 7, 2006 22:14:36 GMT -5
Yeah, Return of the Living Dead. I think there are actual zombies running around in that one, actually I know there is now that I think of it. Remember the zombies bum rushing the paramedics/cops out behind the mortuary. One of them actually did a football tackle.... hard. If I remember right, O'Bannion's the one who came up with the brain eating fetish too (don't quote me on it though). I kind of like the idea that most of the actors from #1 were used again in #2. Yes Werner, you are right about them running in ROTLD. That's what even made this movie "scarier" than original zombie movies, was that these guys could catch you while the Romero's zombies just wandered around. BTW, one of my favorite movies since it was set in Louisville (I believe O'Bannion's wife was from here). But the movie wasn't filmed here....I've heard that on several message boards. |
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Post by Werner Mueck on Sept 7, 2006 22:36:23 GMT -5
I actually knew where it was filmed at one time, I have a copy and I've watched the commentary w/ O'Banion and William Stout. I might just watch it again tonight to find out for you. I remember something about them needing an olive grove for the cemetary scene but couldn't find a good spot with an olive grove on it or nearby. Who else thinks the triple amputee midget zombie eating the paramedic's brains is one of the creepiest things you've ever seen?
This was kind of funny, when the punk girl is dancing around on the slab nude, O'Bannion says in the commentary that the producer (or backer or whoever) came in and complained about it. They eventually had to make a prosthetic crotch for her. Don't ask me why I remember that bit of trivia.
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 7, 2006 22:44:33 GMT -5
If it's on the DVD released a couple years ago, I have that as well. I may have to watch it again to see...
That is hilarious about the fake crotch!! Did anyone even notice the difference!!
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Post by Werner Mueck on Sept 7, 2006 22:58:10 GMT -5
Yeah, it was the one from 2002. If I remember right, O'Bannion said with the angles he shot the scene at, it wouldn't have made any real difference. Wonder what the conversation was like:
Dan O'Bannion - "Don't worry, don't worry, it'll look great. It'll look real"....
Backer - "Mr. O'Bannion, we can't have her crotch displayed for the whole god fearing world to see.... Make a fake one...."
Dan O'Bannion - "Stout, draw me up a fake crotch and get me a half gallon of plaster.... stat!"
William Stout - "I love my job!"
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Post by Splattercat on Sept 7, 2006 23:45:31 GMT -5
Re: Return of the Living Dead
"Send More Cops!!" - Zombie speaking into the police radio.
...Is there anything more frightening..?
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 8, 2006 0:04:01 GMT -5
Re: Return of the Living Dead "Send More Cops!!" - Zombie speaking into the police radio....Is there anything more frightening..? Well, how about "Send more....pa ra me dics" I remember seeing this when, I guess it came out in 86, so I was 13 or 14. I always thought, oh crap (and this was a 14 year old imagination since it was "based on a true story"), if this ever happened, we'd be screwed!!! |
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Post by GrumpyBigBee on Sept 8, 2006 10:15:37 GMT -5
either way, I will probally see it on video if not in the movies
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Post by krisosk on Sept 8, 2006 15:46:40 GMT -5
Who else thinks the triple amputee midget zombie eating the paramedic's brains is one of the creepiest things you've ever seen? No doubt, dude. ~ :-Xsk |
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Post by gwffantrav on Sept 8, 2006 21:56:10 GMT -5
Yeah, it was the one from 2002. If I remember right, O'Bannion said with the angles he shot the scene at, it wouldn't have made any real difference. Wonder what the conversation was like: Dan O'Bannion - "Don't worry, don't worry, it'll look great. It'll look real".... Backer - "Mr. O'Bannion, we can't have her crotch displayed for the whole god fearing world to see.... Make a fake one...." Dan O'Bannion - "Stout, draw me up a fake crotch and get me a half gallon of plaster.... stat!" William Stout - "I love my job!" And dang, each year my friend and myself really fix up my house (well, my parent's house since their front yard is bigger and there are a lot of kids there)...but we fix up the house for Halloween and it gets attention from many in Louisville. Very realistic stuff, etc. We always talk about now how we should have gone to CA when we were young to get into horror makeup stuff, hook up with Savani or WInston. After reading Werner's post above...I think we made a mistake!!! |
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Post by krisosk on Dec 26, 2006 19:59:43 GMT -5
Well, to answer my own question (from the Wikipedia entry):
Diary of the Dead
Diary of the Dead is an independent horror film announced for an expected release in the first quarter of 2007.[1] It will be the fifth film[2] in director George A. Romero's Dead series. However, in "an attempt to re-establish a lucrative franchise,"[1] the film will, technically and philosophically, be a reboot, "a rejigging of the myth,"[1] says Romero. Even though the fourth film was studio-produced through Universal Studios, Diary of the Dead will be produced by Romero's and his producer friend Peter Grunwald's Romero-Grunwald Productions with Artfire Films.[3] The film began its four-week shoot in Toronto on October 19, 2006.[4]
Romero announced the film in August 2006 after signing a deal to write and direct it. The plot involves a group of film school students who are filming a horror movie in the wilderness, and who are attacked by zombies. All will take place during the same night as Night of the Living Dead. It will give a new perspective on the whole phenomenon as the students learn about the zombies through first-hand experience as opposed to the people locked up in the farmhouse in Night of the Living Dead.
~ :-Xsk
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Post by fredkc6cfb on Jan 13, 2007 6:14:03 GMT -5
Just in case some of you might enjoy reading the Romero Dead series. The individual paperbacks for NoTLD, Dawn, Day, Land, and Dairy are available at Amazon.com, as well as some fairly good zombie world knock-offs.
I have a few of the books. I'll be ordering Land in a day or two.
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