Zombies, zombies everywhere But not a trope worth a think. . . I’ll cop to languishing under a surfeit of zombies. Zombie filmakers suffer under the same burden a Shakespearean director does. You want to do a new production of Richard III, but how do you make your mark on four hundred years of canon? As I see it, you have three choices. You try and set a new gold-standard in casting, costumes, set, stage direction and so on. A…
Septic Man (2013) – Plex From the country that is about to bring you The Pee Pee Poo Poo Man (Canada), comes another scatological extravaganza — Septic Man! From the writer of the excellent ‘Pontypool’, this is an origin story, although I’m not sure if they plan to make any more. Jack is a sanitary worker who has been tasked to discover the cause of an entire town’s poisoned water. We know the water is poisoned because the very opening…
As Black Gate‘s resident oddball zombie movie reviewer (Honest! John O’Neill did it in style of Mad Men‘s Roger Sterling, he did a Jedi hand wave and anointed me thus) I have to say a little bit about the ultra-low budget 2012 movie The Battery. The zombie movie has reached the arthouse at last. And the arthouse loved it, this micro-budget film won numerous awards. Now don’t get me wrong, I love a traditional zombie movie as much as the…