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Hitch-Hike
Quite slow but this is a solid flick. Didn't expect it to turn out how it did.
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seen it lately and yeah...the ending was bit cruel & shocking but overall I enjoyed it though:)
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
[Saw it for the first time:o]
This is a film that offers many things to many people - sharp consumer satire, black comedy, gore-splatter epic etc. Nevertheless it also shows a bleak, frantic worldview...one that encompasses all of mankind. And on that ground it's not a zombie movie or a common 'horror' film, to me it was a very human story. Like very few could have done, Romero's
Dawn crosses the boundaries of its 'genre' and becomes a rare piece of milestone in the history of celluloid arts. It' a thrilling tale of survival & struggle of mankind against the nature, creatures and also within themselves like at a time of extinction or supposedly at a new beginning. The scariest part of the movie is how likely it makes the concept of total collapse of what we perceive as civilization. Such is Romero's skill as a director and writer that it manages to be all of these without pretension; more than 30 years on, this film's appeal still remains undimmed.
"Some kind of instinct. Memory, of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives."
There are plenty of satirical moments between the explosions of violence and gore, moments that still make us realize to what extent the world has reverted to being a race of consumer zombies, congregating around massive shopping malls like they're the religious temples and trapped in not by so called 'freedom of choice', but mindless instincts. The overall sustained atmosphere, inside and outside of the bare environment of the shopping mall, is by far the film's salient contribution; even when there is no obvious action onscreen, there is the threat of an attack to come, and the clock is clearly ticking on the four protagonists. They discover the novelty of having as many of society's desirable goods as they could ever want wears off pretty quick when there's nothing on TV, nowhere to spend money and no one to appreciate expensive clothes and jewelry.
A beautifully frightening film...Romero's best.
>>: A
Plaguers (2008)
A very cheesy Sci-Fi Channel-like movie about a spaceship transporting a glowing green prism of something discovered on a dead planet, which squirts some liquid on one of the bitchy space pirates (all the pirates were female & they looked like some kinda Space cheer leaders but the frustrating thing is there's no nudity...no boobs:mad:), turning her into some sort of infected space zombie thing. The gore & the space zombie make-up effects were okay, otherwise it's pretty close to be a trash.
>>: D+