Zombie Films

I'm quite a zombie film fan - no, really.

There's quite a lot I enjoy about them - the madness, the weirdness...the death, destruction and mayhem...

I admit, the occasional, really scantily clad young thing does help a little - even if some of the best films don't have one.

But...well....Land of the Dead, by George A. Romero.

I'm disappointed.

No, that doesn't cover it. I'm hugely disappointed by a film that should have been an A1 film. It's..well...junk. It really is.

The early films were good as films. The first - trapped in a house, zombies coming in huge waves.

The second - a shopping mall, the perfect place to survive, or not....

The third I admit I slept through. But this? It has perhaps one interesting quality - and that's not enough to save a film. One interesting character.

This was not a film about zombies. It wasn't a film about survival, rescue or horror. There was no romance or love, no gratuitous sex scene or comedy.

Nope - this film was about social parody and statement. How the rich rule the poor.

I had hopes - really, high hopes. I thought that perhaps this film might be an intelligent treatment of how man might survive the coming zombie apocalypse. A tale of a people built on the decaying corpse of the 20th century.

A people pulling together to forge a future - if not a bright one, then at least something that only comes in shades of blood and rot.

One day, one day...