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Knight at the Movies: Pontypool

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…

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Knight at the Movies: The Battery (2012)

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…

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