Smell the Movies
Smell the TV
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| Year: | 2007 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | George A. Romero |
| Genre: | Zombie media polemic |
| Starring: | Joshua Close, Michelle Morgan, Shawn Roberts |
| Rating: | 4/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0848557/ |
| Tagline: | Shoot the dead. |
| Favourite line: | "They are monsters, monsters who prey on the flesh of the living." |
The fourth of Romero's zombie movies sees a group of amateur film-makers caught up at the start of a zombie outbreak.
Director Jason wants to make a horror movie for his final university project, so him and a bunch of friends are in the woods in the early hours of the morning. News breaks via radio that the dead are returning to life, so the movie follows our heroes attempts to get back to their loved ones.
Jason takes it upon himself to capture on film the events as they unfold, setting up a scenario similar to, say, Cannibal Holocaust, Blair Witch or, more recently Cloverfield as we, the viewer, watch the culmination of his work, a movie within a movie entitled The Death of Death. Every shot we see is supposed to be something caught on camera, be it through Jasons' lens, a YouTube broadcast or CCTV footage.
Being Romero, this is an attempt to exposé the modern 'film-all' society we live in where people are quicker to record an accident scene on their mobile phone rather than render assistance, with one character pointing out on two seperate occasions 'if it's not on film, it's like it's not really happening.'
Blood thristy, intelligent, though with a tendency to drag in places, this is not Romero's greatest work, but still a damn good zombie flick.
Roll on 2009's Island of the Dead
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