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    It's Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills

    George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/21/09

    In reply to It's Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills
    I am getting just a bit tired of isolated groups (even those the size of a small city LOTD) running away and dealing with the zombie menace. Since when did humanity ALWAYS just pack it in and hide when it came to an advancing threat? I'm hoping WWZ can bring the sense of scale and realism that the book had.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    07/21/09

    In reply to It's Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills
    why do I keep giving him more chances? Like Carpenter and Hooper...
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    Plague was starred Plague was unstarred
    Image of FiorenzaDampt FiorenzaDampt
    07/21/09

    @Plague: Maybe because the horror movie output isn't all that prolific so we keep watching each new offering, hoping that this one will be great and redeem the director?
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    Image of Plague Plague
    07/21/09

    @FiorenzaDampt:
    Yeah.
    But I've been saying it for DECADES now.
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    Image of FiorenzaDampt FiorenzaDampt
    07/21/09

    @Plague:

    I know. Me too. Maybe we're just masochists.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/21/09

    @Plague: Hooper, and the moving image itself, reached their pinnacle with Lifeforce, a film so phenomenal that all efforts since are deemed unworthy to even exist.
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of rek rek
    07/21/09

    @Plague: Diary was the last chance I gave him. I won't see this one.
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    07/22/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.:
    ". But after they're brought back to Earth, they come alive and start turning Londoners into zombies -- leaving only surviving astronaut Tom Carlsen (Steve Railsback) to save the planet."
    Haven't seen the film, but why only the surviving astronaut?
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    07/21/09

    In reply to It's Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills
    I can't wait to hear what the ham-fisted metaphor to current events he'll try to draw this time in an effort to not look irrelevant and dated!

    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
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    Grey_Area promoted this comment Edited by omgwtflolbbqbye at 07/21/09 3:06 PM omgwtflolbbqbye was starred omgwtflolbbqbye was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/21/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Mortgage crisis.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/21/09

    In reply to It's Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills
    So he's serious, this is really called...of the Dead? This is just sort of embarrassing. Words fail me.
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    Image of tonytown tonytown
    07/21/09

    apparently it is called 'Survival of the Dead'... the '...' was just a place holder
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/21/09

    @tonytown: I'd prefer Death of the Dead. Talk about beating a dead horse.
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    Image of Rocketknight Rocketknight
    07/21/09

    @Grey_Area: This coming from someone who apparently did not read the article before they commented.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    07/21/09

    @Grey_Area: That's actually a pretty good title.
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    Image of Mecharine Mecharine
    07/21/09

    @Grey_Area: Deader Than Dead would have sounded like an action movie, wouldnt it?
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/22/09

    @VergessenHeld: In my meager defense the article didn't show up, only the lead paragraph. the gallery was doing something odd.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/22/09

    @Mecharine: Die Even Deader II: The Deadening
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    Edited by Grey_Area at 07/22/09 12:57 PM Grey_Area was starred Grey_Area was unstarred
    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    07/21/09

    In reply to It's Zombies vs. Soldiers in New Romero Stills
    i just had a afternoon spoiler... in m pants

    i've heard that this movie is a different story from diary of the dead. hopefully not told from first person shakey cam point of view
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    From the first sentence, I thought we were going to get the proverbial Vegan Zombies...


    GGGRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAIIIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSSS....

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    Image of winkingskunk winkingskunk
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    "Unfortunately we all know what happens when you have one zombie: they reproduce like bunnies."


    For a split second I actually thought you meant the film was gonna be full of zombies porking each other.


    The last thing we need is zombie porn.

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    Image of Plague Plague
    01/06/09

    @winkingskunk:

    I guess you haven't seen Re-Penetrator or XXXorcist yet then.
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    Plague was starred Plague was unstarred
    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    Match Game!
    George Romero's BLANK of the Dead


    Charles Nelson Reiley: 'Cocktails!!!!!'
    Brent Somers: 'Hootenanny'
    Nipsey Russel: 'Day they Splayed Ray Away'
    Bert Convy: 'Fortnight'
    Elke Somers: 'Spa Retreat'
    Fannie Flagg: 'Happy Hour'

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    Image of Plague Plague
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    I see that Romero has hired another talent-free cast.

    Dude. Stop it. You don't want to become a joke like Carpenter or Hooper in your old age, do ya?
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    Plague was starred Plague was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    Should be called Death of the Dead.

    Ten year moratorium on zombie movies, please.
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    Image of jbq jbq
    01/06/09

    @Grey_Area: That's the title of Bruce Campbell's spoof Evil Dead films in his last book and in "My Name is Bruce"...
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/06/09

    @jbq: No foolin'? Hah!
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    It's done. I'm over it. Zombie movies you've run your course as we know it. Hopefully WWZ can pull a Tarantino on you and revive you but I'm not holding my breath.


    I challenge io9 and it's commenters... we need a new monster. Vampires, Zombies, Ghosts, Werewolves are all played out at this point (no I haven't seen Let the Right One In).


    Lets get something new.

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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of megam123 megam123
    01/06/09

    @Grrsn Dn:


    Banshees? Can anyone name one good banshee movie?

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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/06/09

    @megam123: Is it a sexy banshee?
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/06/09

    @Grrsn Dn: Golems vs. Triffids...in space!
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    Image of emp emp
    01/06/09

    @Grrsn Dn:

    incubi/succibi attacks/rapes woman/man, he/she falls madly in love with said creature of the night.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/06/09

    @emperorzombie: Ooooh or something very evil, like Hecubus!!


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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Adam Coleman Adam Coleman
    01/06/09

    @Grrsn Dn: Doppelgangers, I can't think of single movie with one in it.
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    01/06/09

    @Adam Coleman: [www.imdb.com]
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of sandmanfvrreturns sandmanfvrreturns
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    Dairy, to me, was a masterpiece. Some may say "What the hell?" but really, the beauty of it was the shaky cam, wasn't bad, easy to follow and you saw how things broke down in more places than just one. I liked it.
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    01/06/09

    @sandmanfvrreturns: ..dairy of the dead????
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    Image of KhaiJB KhaiJB
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    actually this sounds like Romero's original Day of the Dead script that was rejected as to expensive at the time.
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    Image of Franklin Harris Franklin Harris
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    Hey, Romero, I've got a title for you:


    END of the Dead.

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    Franklin Harris was starred Franklin Harris was unstarred
    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    01/06/09

    @rek:


    Agreed. I thought Diary and Land were terrible. Romero needs to give it up.

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    Image of alchemisto alchemisto
    01/06/09

    In reply to George Romero Tries To Teach Old Zombies New Tricks
    Really? I tried to watch day once and found it laughable. Maybe I'll try again (I guess he originally had a different script for Day, but couldn't get appropriate funding).


    Really, the zombie thing has now been done better by others. "The Walking Dead" & Brooks "World War Z" have been 10 times more interesting than Day, Land or Diary. In my mind, Romero's time has passed.

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    alchemisto was starred alchemisto was unstarred
    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    01/06/09

    @alchemisto:


    Romero's time has definitely passed. "The Walking Dead" pretty much trumps anything that I can think of. It's beyond brutal, and everything that I could want in a zombie filled story.

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    d_r_e was starred d_r_e was unstarred
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