Zombies

[wjp666]

Just finished watching In The Flesh, the 3-parter on BBC3... very impressed with its overall meanings and general delivery. Anyone else watch? Gotta be the first British drama I've actually enjoyed since, well... I don't remember the last one!

And sticking with zombies... anyone been watching The Walking Dead on Fox?

[oldspice]

I hate horror movies and other horror stuff. I used to read trashy horror novels when I was about 12 but then I read Rosemary's Baby and it just freaked me out. I've pretty much kept away from the genre except for a brief flirt with it as an older teen when the first Halloween came out. I also saw The Exorcist and laughed all the way through it.

[wjp666]

I agree, The Exorcist is one of the funniest films ever made. It's the very colourful dialogue always brings me back to it. I'm a big horror fan... always have been. Well, when I say horror I don't mean this new-age, sparkly, romantic vampire nonsense or semi-clad teen-slasher flicks... I'm referring of course to Lee, Cushing and Price. My heroes! Horror lost its edge when the blood starting running down the screen.

[oldspice]

Totally agree. I remember seeing Tales from the Crypt as a quite young child and was too scared to move!

[wjp666]

Aaaah, back when horror MEANT horror... not just choppy editing in a disused warehouse.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

I also saw The Exorcist and laughed all the way through it.

Funnily enough, that film had the same effect on me. I just don't get how people think it's scary. I even read the book and it's just as bad.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

Horror lost its edge when the blood starting running down the screen.

Not a Fulci fan, then.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

anyone been watching The Walking Dead on Fox?

I don't watch it on Fox, but I watch the series when it's on C5. Best thing on telly, bar Ripper Street.

[wjp666]

Fulci - a Romero clone with a very questionable CV. Preferred Lenzi myself.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

Lenzi? Sorry but Fulci is more of a legend than Umberto.

[wjp666]

Can't beat a bit of Ferox though.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

Yes you can. Try Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond, House By The Cemetery and City Of The Living Dead for starters.

[wjp666]

LOL at all of them for multiple reasons, I'm afraid. Give me a bit of Hammer any day.

[GimmeTheSoddingChoc]

I am a big Hammer fan myself and have been mopping up the recent Blu ray releases, but I cannot believe you're laughing at something like Zombie Flesh Eaters! It's a genre classic!

[wjp666]

ZFE: extremely overrated. Liked the shark vs zombie fight, but that was about it. It just played like a boring version of a Romero film. Dawn Of The Dead is the best zombie film ever, in my eyes.