Dawn of the Dead

Bloodgeon11 · Post by **Bloodgeon11** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:01 pm

I wouldn't really rank Evil Dead with zombie movies. Well, maybe, but they far outshine the rest of the Genre.

Raymondo · Post by **Raymondo** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:06 pm

s4ur0n27 wrote:Wow. The whole point of seeing a zombie movie is to see zombies killing people and getting chopped.

Anyway, no they aren't all the same, go watch Braindead (Evil Dead).

Don't you mean (Dead Alive), evil dead and braindead are two completely different movies.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:53 pm

<o

ray is write!

and zombie movies are pretty different. If all zombie movies are the same, every movie is the same. Everythings the same. Next you'll be telling me we're all made up from the same bunch of chemicals or something LOL

Mr Carrot · Post by **Mr Carrot** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:54 am

Thats like saying all action movies are the same because the star survives some big stunts and kills lots of people.

It has to have some genre elements to be part of that genre!

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 3:59 pm

Fallout Junkie wrote:
s4ur0n27 wrote:Wow. The whole point of seeing a zombie movie is to see zombies killing people and getting chopped.

Anyway, no they aren't all the same, go watch Braindead (Evil Dead).
Don't you mean (Dead Alive), evil dead and braindead are two completely different movies.

Thanks Ray, what's Evil Dead about again?

Raymondo · Post by **Raymondo** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:03 pm

s4ur0n27 wrote:
Fallout Junkie wrote:
s4ur0n27 wrote:Wow. The whole point of seeing a zombie movie is to see zombies killing people and getting chopped.

Anyway, no they aren't all the same, go watch Braindead (Evil Dead).
Don't you mean (Dead Alive), evil dead and braindead are two completely different movies.
Thanks Ray, what's Evil Dead about again?

Not really sure, I've only seen the 3rd one.

You could always try House of Horrors for more infomation on it.

EDIT:

The story is a simple one. Five college students venture into the wooded mountains of Tennessee to spend a weekend of fun in an isolated cabin. Is this your standard weekend of sex, drugs, and rock n' roll? No...unfortunately, our heroes find the "Book of the Dead", play a tape recording of demonic incantations, and unknowingly open a portal to the netherworld.

The "Book of the Dead", bound in human flesh and inked in human blood, contains the ancient rituals that cause the spirits of evil to awaken and possess, one by one, the poor innocent students. As the survivors see their friends and loved ones transformed into hideous, murdering demons, they learn that the only way to kill the possessed is to dismember their bodies.

Who will be next possessed by the evil dead? Will anyone survive this night of terror? I won't tell. Rent this movie, you won't regret it!!!!! The Greatest Horror Movie of All Time!!!!!

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 4:37 pm

The second one is also pretty interesting. As we can surmise, Ash is the only one to survive the night and Evil Dead 2 entails his second day & night at the cabin along with the few people who come to join him for a visit. This also explains why Ash is in King Arthurs court in the 3rd movie.

The series also changes radically through the three movies. The 1st is almost a pure straight up horror movie with very little comedy. The second seems to be a splicing of action and horror with a very interesting sense of humor. The third is something of an action comedy. All three of the movies have a very distinctive feel and such and most people wouldn't think it was directed by the same guy.

Also - Any scenes that are used from the 1st movie in the 2nd or 3rd are new because the crew couldn't get the rights to use footage from the original movie or some bizzaro reason. So yea, it seems like they changed the story allitle in part 2 but thats the reason why. (It becomes that it was just Ash and his girlfriend instead of Ash, his best friend, his girlfriend, his best friends girlfriend, and his sister.)

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:16 pm

Oh yea, I remember. Bruce Campbell kicking plenty of asses. I saw the first one, and Army of Darkness as well. First one was an OK movie for it's time I guess, but AoD was great. The part with the little Ashs and the one with the second head were so funny.

And this movie had the best one-liners ever : "Who wants some?", "Come to the king baby", "What's that on your face?".

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:26 pm

Probably the biggest thing to keep in mind for the first one was it was filmed while as a college project. I think it took like 4 years to make or something like that.

I was always partial to "Groovy" from the second film. The PS1 game had a quote I liked "Say hi to Disco for me" if you wanna count that as official canon. It was voiced by Bruce Campbell.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:55 pm

I wish that game didn't suck as much as it did. I played for about 15 minutes before I lost total interest.

Raymondo · Post by **Raymondo** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:00 pm

Wolfman Walt wrote:Probably the biggest thing to keep in mind for the first one was it was filmed while as a college project. I think it took like 4 years to make or something like that.

Actually it took them 11 weeks with a budget of $300,000. Or at least thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s what the website says.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:20 pm

it took them 4 years too cut it and get it into cinemas though. I think.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:41 pm

I remember somewhere on my special addition VHS (Old school) It said it took them something like 4 years to complete it, they were vague. Maybe they ment pre-production and post-production as well?

Edit: As for the game, I actually liked it. It had bad graphics, bad controls, but the plot was ok, and the voice acting was good. It was interesting. One of the few playstation games I actually bothered to complete.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:31 am

On the general topic of zombies, I would like to throw a hook into things.

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http://dreamcast.ign.com/articles/165/165674p1.html

I think I would have learned to type a lot faster this way.

SuperH · Post by **SuperH** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:39 am

Yah I played that game. It gets hard at the end because the bosses don't get real words, they get nonsense letters and that's hard to type quickly.

I pretty much owned up to there though.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:44 pm

That's a game for women.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 3:56 pm

No, its for children. Didn’t you read the article?

I'm kind of curious how the hell they got an idea like that.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:05 pm

I was JOKEN.

Women = secretaries = typers = THIS GAME.

CloudNineGT · Post by **CloudNineGT** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 4:14 pm

So was I. Still, I thought you were just being chauvinistic but you went above and beyond in the thinking behind that sentence. Good work? Does anyone know any other good zombie games? I'm starting to finish with most of the zombie movies I can find at local rentals and I want more.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:18 pm

There are always the ultra-popular RE games, which I don't like much. There's House of the Dead too, in arcades I think.

Did anyone try Eternal Darkness on GC? Dunno if it's a zombie game or more horror, but I heard some good things about that game. now that my brother bought a GC I might buy Eternal Darkness.