City of Amnesia

Many of my friends are obsessed with zombie movies. I've gotten swept up in the fun and the fear, but there's usually something that keeps me from turning completely.

What would happen in your perfect zombie movie? Other horrors, monsters or spirits besides zombies? What kind of build-up and how close are the encounters? Explanation for zombies? Lots of shooting and chopping or mostly running?

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I dislike zombie movies that become disaster movies. An explanation is needed for my satisfaction.

So I'd love to have a zombie movie take place in a fictional world where restrictions on nuclear/biological/chemical weapons don't exist, and the protagonist has to escape an active warzone where someone deploys a zombie agent.

This sort of attack would have occurred elsewhere already, to avoid the "omg what in the world is happening?" portion where the characters make stupid decisions out of ignorance.

After the initial helpless phase, there'd be a gratification phase in the middle, once the protagonist gets his hands on some hardware and blows zombies away like paper tigers, and then a badass/gratification phase when the invaders throw their own soldiers into the mix. Zombies, defenders and invaders all fighting one another, the protagonist venting all the anger built up against the invaders, assaulting and luring them towards their own creations. (Sweet.) Then a final helpless phase would end the movie.

My perfect zombie movie? A faithful movie version of Resident Evil 1 & 2. No wire fu fighting, no over the top settings i.e post apocalyptic like in the latest RE movie, and George Romero must direct.

Nandatta, kore?
WEll, I like R. Daniel's ideas. they sound more interesting cuz people are used to it...
28 weeks later made me laugh a lot...

Somebody should make a movie out of World War Z.

This.

Guys, they are. Wikipedia says!

I read over the book's synopsis and indeed, it sounds pretty sweet.

The ideal zombie movie would be a SciFi Channel original movie and use excessive amounts of low budget CGI.

lulz, sup wazpy

Hey Wazpy long time now see. Speaking of SciFi Originals, they've been showing a movie marathon of various low budget movies. Griffin or something to that effect so far has the title as worst CGI ever. Nothing says awesome like a low resolution blurry CG monster. 

I've seen almost every SciFi original movie that's worth a damn (I skip the disaster ones). There are a lot of candidates for worst CGI, but the worst movie I've ever seen on there had no CGI. Look up Skeleton man. I cried laughing three times.

In this scenario, Bruce Campbell must be the action hero. If not, a cameo must be utilized.

I don't think anyone can argue with you there. but i've had enough of crappy cgi jobs to burn out whats left of my poor eyesight.

lulz. I remember Skeleton Man. The costume looked like a store bought skeleton mask and a large black thrash bag.

It wasn't even a skeleton mask. It was just face paint. You can see the guy's nose is painted black when he turns to the side.

Man... that movie is a legend. Here's a trailer for those of you who never saw it. But it's in German for some reason...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfQF_4qtptI

Of course it's in German. That makes it about 1000x more awesome.

Hitler was german... 0_o ACK! A Hitler zombie would be terrifying!

O_O

Let's f**kin' do this!

Language.

...The only role I could play is that of a Jew... even though I'm not Jewish...

How would it go? Would Hitler be the zombie, or the one who calls the zombie shots? (hmmm, oddly familiar)

I would gladly play the Jewish person!

I'm not Jewish, but I've always wanted to be.

Sorry, guess the idea got me a little overexcited.

I appriciate it, Eye.

So, would he make the jews into his zombies to do his bidding?...

Hm, good question. Maybe the zombies are an accident, and they come to take their revenge; Adolf and Eva weren't involved in a murder-suicide? And then Hellsing comes to clean up the damage!

That would be win...

What the hell? where did hellsing come from LoL

. . .they have experience fighting Nazi vampires. >_>

Not nazi zombies!  :P Now, would these zombie infect others? are they disease based? or are they those magical ones that are dead people breaking out of their coffins even though bones really wouldn't be able to do that on their own...

I never really understood the fascination with "how" zombies come to be. They're corpses that move about and consume the flesh of living humans in order to survive. Isn't that scary enough?

Speaking of a a half way decent Resident Evil movie, that RE: Degeneration is actually pretty awesome. Kudos to Capcom for making it, however, I'm taking some of this Kudos away for green lighting a new RE movie by J.W Anderson and set in japan for no apparent reason, with RE: Outbreak characters, but I'll probably watch it for the lulz.

My ideal zombie movie is campy and stupid. Like Zombie Strippers.
Gundam Fight Set! Ready... Go!

Ideal Zombie movie? Well seems like Troma made one of the already, with a budget of $10,000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Zombies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Zombies)

About that Hitler Zombie movie. This doesn't have a zombie Hitler, but...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036307/
Revenge of the Zombies
Scott Warrington and his hired detective, Larry Adams, arrive at an old mansion in the middle of a Louisiana swamp to meet his brother-in-law, Dr. Max von Altermann shortly after the death of Scott's sister, Lila. Von Altermann, a Nazi who has been creating zombies for the armies of the Third Reich, has turned the deceased Lila into one of the undead as well, but is surprised when she shows signs of free will and challenges Max for control over his zombie thralls.

Dang, it sounds like that Edgar Allan Poe story, The Fall of the House of Usher.
Of course It's important how the zombies came to be!!! that's always important. Now, if they were something like vampires or werewolves we wouldn't ask, we'ld just assume they were already there. But something has to make dead people walk, so we can't just stop there! gosh, i sound like I'm serious about it... :D

Yes, you do.

neon: Awesome; love the tagline. :D

If you want an awesome zombie movie experience, go play Left 4 Dead.
There's really no excuse for not playing it. Drop whatever you're doing. Seriously.

But I don't have an XBox 360.

It's better on PC.

And my PC can't run it, I'm sure.

I would play left 4 dead, but I would die immediately ... see the guy in my icon the cute asian one? *swoon* he's the biggest nerd for games, so I have the biggest urge to start playing all of those games you play with other people just to talk to him 0_0 *is huge fangirl* my friend has that game though.
Gasp, what if there was a zomvie movie made from the perspective, entirely, of a zombie.... do zombies think?

I love this idea, as long as we get to meet the zombie as a human before he/she turns.

Ideal? Let me think...
The zombies should be slow and silent as in the classics, their origin should not be that usual boring stuff we've already seen 100,000 times (secret experiment out of control, toxic waste on a cemetery, terroristic virus, :P I do prefer magic or curses), no teens (90% bad actors and impossible empathy for me), body-count important but not essential, wilderness location, nightmare-like atmosphere, no shocking music, twist-in-end. Nudes appreciated. ;D